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.
§ 2271. Employment; powers
When in his or her judgment the public good requires it, the Attorney General may
apply to the Governor for leave to employ detective service, at the expense of the
State, in the detection and apprehension of a criminal, in the investigation of any
criminal offense, and in the collection of evidence to secure the conviction of a
person accused of crime. A person or persons, residents of this State, so employed
may be designated State investigator and, while thus engaged and acting under the
orders of the Attorney General, shall have and may exercise the powers now granted
by law to sheriffs in the enforcement of the criminal law, upon giving a bond to the
State in such penal sum as the Governor shall require, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his or her duties, and upon taking the oath prescribed for sheriffs
before any person authorized to administer oaths and upon same being certified to
the Governor.
§ 2272. Authorization
The Governor may grant such application and shall fix the maximum amount of expense
authorized in the particular case.
§ 2273. Statement and warrant for expenses
The Attorney General shall present to the Governor for approval an itemized statement
of his or her expenses incurred in the employment of detective service under sections
2271 and 2272 of this title. On approval of the Governor, the Commissioner of Finance and Management shall issue
his or her warrant in favor of the Attorney General for such amounts. (Amended 1959, No. 328 (Adj. Sess.), § 8(b); 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 5(b).)