City of Montpelier, Vermont: City Clerk -- Justices of the Peace

City Clerk/Treasurer Office
Justices of the Peace

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

ELECTED NOVEMBER 2006
Name	Telephone
Barney Bloom, Democrat	229-5049 or 828-2091 or 479-4205
Cary Margareta Brown, Democrat	229-6691
Jane S. Dale, Democrat	223-0709 or (cell) 279-4301
Esther Farnsworth, Progressive	223-2240
Robert Gross, Democrat	223-6029
Mary Hooper, Democrat	223-2892
Michelle Hughes, Democrat	229-0643
Matt Levin, Democrat	229-4281
Margaret Lucenti, Democrat	223-7310
Deborah Markowitz, Democrat	229-6307
John McCullough, Democrat	223-5980
William R. Steinhurst, Democrat	223-2407
Claude Stone, Democrat	223-2689
Robert Squire, Democrat	229-0291
Nancy Wasserman, Democrat	229-8096

The following is an excerpt from the State of Vermont, Office of the Secretary of State Web site.

GENERAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES
There are basically five categories of responsibilities for justices of the peace.

1. You serve as a member of the board of civil authority, which by law is responsible for adding and removing names from the checklist, and for serving collectively as the local election officials at any municipal or state election. As a justice, you also are responsible for delivering absentee ballots to voters at election time.

2. You have a responsibility in the town's tax appeal process. As a member of the board of civil authority, you sit to hear the tax appeals of citizens aggrieved by the final decision of the listers. You also sit as a member of the municipal board for abatement of taxes.

3. You may solemnize marriages in Vermont.

4. You may administer oaths in all cases where an oath is required, unless the law makes a different provision.

5. Finally, you may serve as a magistrate when so commissioned by the supreme court.

For more information, check out The J. P. Guide, published by the Deborah L. Markowitz, Secretary of State, 2000.

Updated February 5, 2007