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Title 18 : Health
Chapter 121 : Cemeteries
Subchapter 002 : TOWN CEMETERIES
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5365)-
§ 5365. Damages for want of fence; liability
When a person or estate is damaged by cattle, horses, sheep, or swine breaking into a public burial ground and injuring a grave, headstone, monument, shrubbery, or flowers, for want of a legal fence around such burial ground, such person or estate may recover of the town double the amount of damages, in a civil action.
