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. § 5292)
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§ 5292. Statutory construction
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize a physician or any other person
to end a patient’s life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia.
Action taken in accordance with this chapter shall not be construed for any purpose
to constitute suicide, assisted suicide, mercy killing, or homicide under the law.
This section shall not be construed to conflict with section 1553 of the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, as amended by the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-152. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)