The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 1604)
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§ 1604. Seizure of motor vehicles
An enforcement officer, without process, may seize a motor vehicle, snowmobile, motorboat,
or all-terrain vehicle found by him or her on which the manufacturer’s serial or motor
number or any of the identifying numbers placed on the motor vehicle, snowmobile,
motorboat, or all-terrain vehicle by the manufacturer of the motor vehicle, snowmobile,
motorboat, or all-terrain vehicle or any of the parts thereof have been obliterated,
defaced, or tampered with, or when in his or her judgment the motor vehicle, snowmobile,
motorboat, or all-terrain vehicle has been stolen, and may retain possession of the
motor vehicle, snowmobile, motorboat, or all-terrain vehicle until the Commissioner
or State’s Attorney of the county where the vehicle, snowmobile, motorboat, or all-terrain
vehicle is found is satisfied as to the rightful ownership thereof. Immediately on
the seizure of the motor vehicle, snowmobile, motorboat, or all-terrain vehicle, the
officer shall report the same, together with all the facts obtainable by him or her,
to the Commissioner, and the officer shall notify the State’s Attorney of the county
in which the motor vehicle, snowmobile, motorboat, or all-terrain vehicle was seized
and cause the ownership of the motor vehicle, snowmobile, motorboat, or all-terrain
vehicle to be investigated. (Amended 2007, No. 19, § 5.)