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. § 9101)
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§ 9101. Definitions
The words “flight” and “fled” as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean any
voluntary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings
hereinafter mentioned may have been instituted and are still pending, with the effect
of avoiding, impeding, or delaying the action of the court in which such proceedings
may have been instituted or be pending, or any such departure from the state where
the person demanded then was, if he or she then were under detention by law as a person
of unsound mind and subject to detention. The word “state” wherever used in this
chapter, shall include states, territories, districts, and insular and other possessions
of the United States. As applied to a request to return any person within the purview
of this chapter to or from the District of Columbia, the words “executive authority,”
“governor,” and “chief magistrate” respectively shall include a judge of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia and other authority. (Added 1967, No. 305 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968.)