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
001
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COMPACT
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 9009)
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§ 9009. Criminal patients—Article IX
(a) No provision of this compact except Article V shall apply to any person institutionalized
while under sentence in a penal or correctional institution or while subject to trial
on a criminal charge, or whose institutionalization is due to the commission of an
offense for which, in the absence of mental illness or developmental disability, the
person would be subject to incarceration in a penal or correctional institution.
(b) To every extent possible, it shall be the policy of states party to this compact that
no patient shall be placed or detained in any prison, jail, or lockup, but the patient
shall, with all expedition, be taken to a suitable institutional facility for mental
illness or developmental disability. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1977, No. 257 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 48.)