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: 20 V.S.A. § 181)
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§ 181. Statement of policy
Because of the existing possibility of a catastrophic incident in the United States
of unprecedented size and destructiveness, and in order, in the event of a catastrophic
incident, to ensure continuity of government through legally constituted leadership,
authority, and responsibility in offices of the government of the State and its political
subdivisions; to provide for the effective operation of governments during an emergency;
and to facilitate the early resumption of functions temporarily suspended, it is found
and declared to be necessary to provide for additional officers who can exercise the
powers and discharge the duties of Governor; to provide for emergency interim succession
to offices of this State in the event the incumbents of those offices, and their deputies,
assistants, or other subordinate officers authorized, pursuant to law, to exercise
the powers and discharge the duties of such offices (deputies) are unavailable to
perform the duties and functions of such offices; and to provide for special emergency
district judges who can exercise the powers and discharge the duties of such judges
in the event regular judges are unavailable. (Added 1959, No. 13, § 2, eff. March 4, 1959; amended 1965, No. 194, § 10; 2007, No. 47, § 17; 2021, No. 20, § 131.)