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: 18 V.S.A. § 504)
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§ 504. Investigation in criminal cause; expert witness
When the State’s Attorney of a county, on the order of a Superior judge or the Attorney
General, for use in a criminal cause pending in the State’s Attorney’s office, requests
an expert investigation, chemical or pathological, of a substance, such investigation
shall immediately be made at the laboratory, without charge to the State, and the
expert making or interpreting such investigation shall submit the results of such
expert’s work to such State’s Attorney and shall attend court as a witness at any
place in the State when required to do so by subpoena and submit in court the results
of such expert’s investigation, and the expert shall be paid as a witness, including
the expert’s actual expenses of attendance when summoned by the State. (Amended 1985, No. 267 (Adj. Sess.), § 16; 2023, No. 6, § 100, eff. July 1, 2023.)