§ 1579. Incurring debt

(a) If authorized by a majority of the qualified voters voting on the question in accordance with this section, a regional career technical center school district may incur indebtedness for improvements or the acquisition of capital assets for the purposes for which the district is established as provided in this chapter.

(b) Each town school district, incorporated school district, unified union school district, and city school district within the regional career technical center school district shall vote on a decision to incur indebtedness for improvements as provided by 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1. The vote shall be determined by Australian ballot or voting machine on the same day and during the same hours at each regular polling place in each town school district, incorporated school district, unified union school district and city school district within the regional career technical center school district. Absentee voting in accordance with 17 V.S.A. chapter 51, subchapter 6 shall be permitted. The Board of Civil Authority of each town within the regional career technical center school district shall be responsible for determining the eligibility of persons to vote, the supervision of the election, and the transportation of ballots in its district to a central point designated by the governing board of the regional career technical center school district. The ballots shall be commingled. Counting of ballots by representatives of the Boards of Civil Authority of the towns in the regional career technical center school district shall be supervised by the regional career technical center school district clerk or his or her designee.

(c) Obligations incurred under 24 V.S.A. chapter 53, subchapter 1 shall be the joint and several obligations of the regional career technical center school district and of each of the town school districts, incorporated school districts, the member towns of unified union school districts, and city school districts within the career technical center region. Any joint or several liability incurred by a town school district, incorporated school district, the member towns of a unified union school district, or city school district within the career technical center region under the provisions of this subchapter shall not be considered in determining its debt limit for its own separate purposes. (Added 2001, No. 33, § 3; amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)