The Vermont Statutes Online
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Title 24 : Municipal and County Government
Chapter 005 : County Officers; Powers and Duties
Subchapter 005 : Sheriffs
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 314)-
§ 314. Sheriffs; annual disclosure
(a) Annually, each sheriff shall file with the State Ethics Commission a disclosure form that contains the following information in regard to the previous 12 months:
(1) Each source, but not amount, of personal income of the sheriff and of the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner, and of the sheriff together with the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner, that totals more than $5,000.00, including any of the sources meeting that total described as follows:
(A) employment, including the employer or business name and address and, if self-employed, a description of the nature of the self- employment without needing to disclose any individual clients; and
(B) investments, described generally as “investment income.”
(2) Any board, commission, or other entity that is regulated by law or that receives funding from the State on which the sheriff served and the sheriff’s position on that entity.
(3) Any company of which the sheriff or the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner, or the sheriff together with the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner, owned more than 10 percent.
(4) Any lease or contract with the State held or entered into by:
(A) the sheriff or the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner; or
(B) a company of which the sheriff or the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner, or the sheriff together with the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner, owned more than 10 percent.
(b) In addition, if a sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner is a lobbyist, the sheriff shall disclose that fact and provide the name of the sheriff’s spouse or domestic partner and, if applicable, the name of that individual’s lobbying firm.
(c)(1) Disclosure forms shall contain the statement, “I certify that the information provided on all pages of this disclosure form is true to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief.”
(2) Each sheriff shall sign the disclosure form in order to certify it in accordance with this subsection.
(d)(1) A sheriff shall file the disclosure form on or before January 15 of each year or, if the sheriff is appointed after January 15, within 10 days after that appointment.
(2) A sheriff who filed this disclosure form as a candidate in accordance with 17 V.S.A. § 2414 in the preceding year and whose disclosure information has not changed since that filing may update that filing to indicate that there has been no change. (Added 2023, No. 30, § 4a, eff. May 31, 2023.)
