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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STATE POLICE
(Cite as: 20 V.S.A. § 1914)
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§ 1914. Powers and immunities
The Commissioner of Public Safety and the State Police shall be peace officers and
shall have the same powers with respect to criminal matters and the enforcement of
the law relating to criminal matters as sheriffs, constables, and local police have
in their respective jurisdictions, and shall have all the immunities and matters of
defense now available or hereafter made available to sheriffs, constables, and local
police in a suit brought against them in consequence of acts done in the course of
their employment. State Police shall be informing or complaining officers with the
same powers possessed by sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, or police officers
of a city or incorporated village as provided in 13 V.S.A. § 5507. (Amended 1959, No. 39; 2021, No. 20, § 158.)