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.
(Cite as: 7 V.S.A. § 561)
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§ 561. Authority of liquor control investigators; arrest for unlawfully manufacturing, possessing,
or transporting alcoholic beverages; seizure of property
(a) The Director of Enforcement for the Division of Liquor Control and investigators employed
by the Board of Liquor and Lottery or by the Division of Liquor Control shall be certified
as Level III law enforcement officers by the Vermont Criminal Justice Council and
shall have the same powers and immunities as those conferred on the State Police by
20 V.S.A. § 1914.
(b) The Commissioner of Liquor and Lottery, the Director of Enforcement for the Division
of Liquor Control, an investigator employed by the Board of Liquor and Lottery or
by the Division of Liquor Control, or any other law enforcement officer may arrest
or take into custody pursuant to the Vermont Rules of Criminal Procedure a person
whom he or she finds in the act of manufacturing alcohol or possessing a still or
other apparatus for the manufacture of alcohol; unlawfully selling, bartering, possessing,
furnishing, or transporting alcohol; or unlawfully selling, furnishing, or transporting
alcoholic beverages, and shall seize the alcohol, vessels, and implements of sale
and the stills or other apparatus for the manufacture of alcohol in the possession
of the person. He or she may also seize and take into custody any property described
in this section. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 33, eff. March 1, 1961; 1987, No. 201 (Adj. Sess.); 2011, No. 17, § 1, eff. May 11, 2011; 2011, No. 17, § 3, eff. July 1, 2013; 2013, No. 64, §§ 7, 8, eff. June 3, 2013; 2013, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 15, eff. July 1, 2015; 2017, No. 83, § 79; 2018, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § 73.)