The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
§ 431. Standard time; daylight saving time
(a) The standard time within the State of Vermont shall be based on the mean astronomical time of 75° of longitude west from Greenwich, known and designated as “U.S. Eastern Standard Time,” except as provided in 15 U.S.C. § 260a, when standard time shall be advanced one hour. The period of time so advanced may
be called “daylight saving time.”
(b) The Governor is authorized to shorten or lengthen the period specified in subsection
(a) of this section by proclamation, if necessary to make the time accord with the
time in effect in any of the states whose boundaries adjoin Vermont. This proclamation
shall be issued at least 10 days before it takes effect. (Amended 2017, No. 74, § 1.)
§ 432. Use as to laws and contracts
In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules, and regulations relating to the time
of performance of any act by any officer or department of this State, including the
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches of the State government, or of any county,
city, town, or district thereof, or relating to the time in which any rights shall
accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any
person subject to the jurisdiction of this State and in all the public schools and
institutions of the State, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, and
in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in this State, it shall
be understood and intended that the time shall be the time designated in section 431 of this title.