§ 2102 - Town service officer, appointment, duties, compensation - Vermont Statutes

§ 2102. Town service officer, appointment, duties, compensation

(a) On or before April 15 of each year the selectmen shall appoint a town service officer and notify the commissioner of their appointment. A town service officer may be appointed to serve simultaneously more than one town. A selectman may be a town service officer. The commissioner shall give him a certificate of appointment and contract for his or her compensation. If the selectmen fail to appoint a town service officer the commissioner may do so. In the absence of the town service officer any selectman may act in his or her behalf. Successors of a retired, dismissed, deceased, or removed town service officer shall be immediately appointed by the selectmen of the town under the same procedures as the original appointment.

(b) The duties of town service officers are to receive applications for assistance, to investigate, make determinations of eligibility for general assistance, grant from funds advanced to him or her for emergency general assistance and to perform other duties, including such investigations, under the welfare code as the commissioner may direct. (Added 1967, No. 147, § 7; amended 1971, No. 176 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)