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. § 2271)
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§ 2271. Employment; powers
When in his or her judgment the public good requires it, the Attorney General may
apply to the Governor for leave to employ detective service, at the expense of the
State, in the detection and apprehension of a criminal, in the investigation of any
criminal offense, and in the collection of evidence to secure the conviction of a
person accused of crime. A person or persons, residents of this State, so employed
may be designated State investigator and, while thus engaged and acting under the
orders of the Attorney General, shall have and may exercise the powers now granted
by law to sheriffs in the enforcement of the criminal law, upon giving a bond to the
State in such penal sum as the Governor shall require, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his or her duties, and upon taking the oath prescribed for sheriffs
before any person authorized to administer oaths and upon same being certified to
the Governor.