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
004
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GAME WARDENS
(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 4193)
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§ 4193. Seizure; power to arrest
(a) The Chief Game Warden and State and deputy game wardens shall seize fish or wild animals
taken or held in violation of a provision of this part or regulations or orders authorized
under this part. They may arrest, without warrant and on view, in any part of the
State, a person violating a provision of this part or regulations or orders authorized
under this part and take such person before a magistrate having jurisdiction of the
offense and detain such person in custody at the expense of the State until opportunity
is had to notify a prosecuting officer, who shall forthwith prosecute such offender.
(b) While the State of New York shall have in effect a law similar to this subsection
for the arrest and punishment of violations of the conservation or fish laws of this
State or the State of New York, committed or attempted to be committed by any person
fishing in that portion of Lake Champlain lying between such states, any game protector,
game warden, sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person of either state, who is authorized
to make arrests for violations of the conservation or fish laws of such states, shall
have power and authority to make arrest on any part of such lake between such states
or the shores thereof and to take the person so arrested for trial to the state in
which the violation was committed and there to prosecute such person according to
the laws of such state. (Added 1961, No. 119, § 1, eff. May 9, 1961.)