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.
Subchapter
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RAILROAD POLICE
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 3762)
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§ 3762. Reciprocity
In order to more effectively carry out the purposes of this subchapter, the Governor
of this State, referred to as the empowering state, may enter into a reciprocal agreement
with the governor of any other state, referred to as the reciprocal state, empowering
railroad police, subject to any regulations prescribed under such agreement, with
the right to perform any police function that can be lawfully exercised by a police
officer of the reciprocal state relating to the detection and apprehension of any
person committing an offense against the empowering or the reciprocal state, but only
to the extent that the offense is committed on or against property owned, operated,
or maintained by the employing or another railroad. (Added 1981, No. 104, § 1.)