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: 10 V.S.A. § 5407)
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§ 5407. Authority to seize threatened or endangered species
In addition to other methods of enforcement authorized by law, the Secretary may direct
under this section that wildlife or wild plants that were seized because of violation
of this chapter be rehabilitated, released, replanted, or transferred to a zoological,
botanical, educational, or scientific institution, and that the costs of the transfer
and staff time related to a violation may be charged to the violator. The Secretary,
with the advice of the Endangered Species Committee, may adopt rules for the implementation
of this section. (Added 1981, No. 188 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 2015, No. 145 (Adj. Sess.), § 26.)