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
001
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COLLECTION OF FINES, COSTS, PENALTIES, AND FORFEITURES
(Cite as: 13 V.S.A. § 7171)
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§ 7171. Collection by complaint, information, or indictment
(a) Fines, forfeitures, and penalties incurred or imposed by statute may be recovered
by complaint, information, or indictment, unless some other mode of recovery is specially
provided.
(b) The Court Administrator is authorized to contract with private collection agencies
for collection of penalties, fines, surcharges, court costs, and any other assessment
authorized by law incurred or imposed by statute on persons who fail to pay, at or
after time of judgment, after notice that failure to pay the debt will result in the
debt being referred to a collection agency and that the debtor will be liable for
the collection agency’s fee. The Court Administrator may agree to pay collection agencies
a fee based on a fixed rate for services rendered or a percentage of the amount actually
collected by such agencies and remitted to the state. The debtor shall be liable for
the collection agency’s fee, in addition to the judgment amount. The collection agency
shall deduct its fee from the collected amount and remit the balance to the judiciary.
All collection agency fees shall be governed by the contract with the Court Administrator
and shall be clearly disclosed in all notices sent by the collection agency to the
debtor. (Amended 1985, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. June 4, 1986; 2007, No. 51, § 4; 2009, No. 4, § 117, eff. April 29, 2009.)