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
004
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DAMAGES BY DOGS
(Cite as: 20 V.S.A. § 3748)
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§ 3748. Action by sheep owner against dog owner
If sheep are worried, wounded, or killed by a dog, the owner or keeper of such dog,
whether it is accustomed to worry, wound, or kill sheep or not, shall pay to the owner
of such sheep double the damages sustained, to be recovered in a civil action, with
double costs. If the injury complained of is occasioned by two or more dogs acting
jointly, belonging to different owners or keepers, the person injured may have a joint
action against the different owners or keepers of such dogs, and recover joint damages
and costs against all.