The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
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ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 2152)
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§ 2152. Authorized removal of abandoned motor vehicles
(a) Public property. A law enforcement officer is authorized to remove or cause removal of an abandoned
motor vehicle from public property, and may contact a towing service for its removal,
based upon personal observation by the officer that the vehicle is an abandoned motor
vehicle.
(b) Private property.
(1) A law enforcement officer is authorized to remove or cause removal of an abandoned
motor vehicle from private property, and may contact a towing service for its removal,
based upon the request of the landowner on whose property the vehicle is located and
information indicating that the vehicle is an abandoned motor vehicle.
(2) A landowner of private property is authorized to remove or cause removal of an abandoned
motor vehicle from that property or to any other place on any property of the landowner,
and may contact a towing service for its removal. A landowner who removes or causes
removal of an abandoned motor vehicle shall immediately notify the police agency in
the jurisdiction from which the vehicle is removed and provide the registration plate
number, the public vehicle identification number, if available, and the make, model,
and color of the vehicle. The landowner may remove the vehicle from the place where
it is discovered to any other place on any property owned by him or her, or cause
the vehicle to be removed by a towing service under the provisions of this subsection,
without incurring any civil liability to the owner of the abandoned vehicle. (Added 2003, No. 101 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2015, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 77.)