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
005
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SHERIFFS
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 302)
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§ 302. Power to search; return
In the daytime, a sheriff may enter and search houses, buildings, or other places
for a person for whose apprehension he or she has a warrant, issued in a criminal
prosecution, a prosecution for bastardy, or on a bailpiece. He or she may so enter
with a warrant or extent for the collection of taxes, or the collection of a fine,
or with a warrant to search for goods or chattels stolen or purloined, when such property
is supposed to be secreted therein. He or she shall not make return in any case that
he or she cannot execute any such precept.