The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 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.
Title 22 : Libraries, History, and Information Technology
Chapter 014 : Historic Preservation
Subchapter 007 : PROTECTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL INFORMATION
(Cite as: 22 V.S.A. § 767)-
§ 767. Cooperation between agencies
All State agencies, departments, institutions, and commissions, as well as all municipalities, shall cooperate fully with the State Archaeologist in the preservation, protection, excavation, and evaluation of specimens and sites; and to that end:
(1) When any State, regional, or municipal agency finds or is made aware by an appropriate historical or archaeological authority that its operation in connection with any State, State-assisted, State-licensed, or contracted project, activity, or program adversely affects or may adversely affect scientific, historical, or archaeological data, the agency shall notify the State Archaeologist and shall provide him or her with information concerning the project, program, or activity. The provisions of this chapter shall be made known to contractors by the State agencies doing the contracting.
(2) The State Archaeologist, upon notification or determination that scientific, historical, or archaeological data, including specimens, is or may be adversely affected, shall, after reasonable notice to the responsible agency, conduct or cause to be conducted a survey and other investigations to recover and preserve or otherwise protect such data, including analysis and publication, that in its opinion should be recovered in the public interest.
(3) The Division shall initiate actions within 60 days following notification under subdivision (1) of this subsection and within such time as agreed upon in other cases. The responsible agency is authorized and directed to expend agency funds for the purpose of recovering the data, including analysis and publications, and the costs shall be included as part of the contractor’s costs if the adverse effect is caused by work being done under contract to a State agency. (Added 1975, No. 109, § 4; amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 255, eff. July 1, 2024.)
