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. § 205)
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§ 205. Limitation — Article IV
Any party jurisdiction requested to render mutual aid or conduct exercise and training
for mutual aid shall undertake to respond as soon as possible, except that it is understood
that the jurisdiction rendering aid may withhold or recall resources to the extent
necessary to provide reasonable protection for that jurisdiction. Each party jurisdiction
shall afford to the personnel of the emergency forces of any party jurisdiction, while
operating within its jurisdictional limits under the terms and conditions of this
Compact and under the operational control of an officer of the requesting party, the
same powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities as are afforded similar or
like forces of the jurisdiction in which they are performing emergency services. Emergency
forces continue under the command and control of their regular leaders, but the organizational
units come under the operational control of the emergency services authorities of
the jurisdiction receiving assistance. These conditions may be activated, as needed,
by the jurisdiction that is to receive assistance or upon commencement of exercises
or training for mutual aid and continue as long as the exercises or training for mutual
aid are in progress, the emergency or disaster remains in effect, or loaned resources
remain in the receiving jurisdiction or jurisdictions, whichever is longer. The receiving
jurisdiction is responsible for informing the assisting jurisdictions of the specific
moment when services will no longer be required. (Added 2003, No. 121 (Adj. Sess.), § 84, eff. June 8, 2004.)