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
002
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TOWN CEMETERIES
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5365)
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§ 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.