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. § 1245)
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§ 1245. Record keeping; public notification; database
(a) Record keeping. The Department of Health shall retain all records of test results, laboratory analyses,
lead remediation plans, and waiver requests for 10 years following the creation or
acquisition of the record. Records produced or acquired by the Department under this
chapter are public records subject to inspection or copying under the Public Records
Act.
(b) Public notification. On or before March 1, 2021, the Commissioner shall publish on the Department website
the data from testing under section 1243 of this title so that the results of sampling are fully transparent and accessible to the public.
The data published by the Department shall include a list of all buildings or facilities
owned, controlled, or operated by a school district, supervisory union, independent
school, or child care provider at which drinking water from an outlet tested is at
or above the action level within the previous two years of reported samples. The Commissioner
shall publish all retesting data on the Department’s website within two weeks of receipt
of the relevant laboratory analysis. The Secretary of Education shall include a link
on the Agency of Education website to the Department of Health website required under
this subsection. (Added 2019, No. 66, § 1, eff. June 17, 2019.)