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Vermont Voting Rules for Boards and Members

What Vermont's statutes say about board votes, emergencies, meetings, and member ballots, as Qwibie summarizes them, with the citation for each.

Can the Board Vote without a Meeting?

Nonprofit corporations

Vermont's nonprofit act lets a board act without a meeting if every director signs a written consent, unless the articles or bylaws say otherwise. Read from the Vermont Statutes Online, which the legislature calls an unofficial copy, so this is a consideration until checked against the official text.

Qwibie counts the vote as: Every director consents in writing.

  • File consent with minutes
Citation
11B V.S.A. §8.21 · Read the source
Review
Consideration onlyNot yet reviewed against the enacted text: a consideration only, 2026-11-12

What about an Emergency between Meetings?

Nonprofit corporations

Vermont's nonprofit act lets a board act without a meeting if every director signs a written consent, unless the articles or bylaws say otherwise. Read from the Vermont Statutes Online, which the legislature calls an unofficial copy, so this is a consideration until checked against the official text.

Qwibie counts the vote as: Every director consents in writing.

  • File consent with minutes
Citation
11B V.S.A. §8.21 · Read the source
Review
Consideration onlyNot yet reviewed against the enacted text: a consideration only, 2026-11-12

Not legal advice

These are Qwibie's own summaries, not the law, and they don't say what the law is today. Open the source to read the text, and ask your attorney how it applies to your organization. Your articles and bylaws may set a different rule where the statute allows it.

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