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.
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STATE'S ATTORNEY
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 361)
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§ 361. General duties
(a) A State’s Attorney shall prosecute for offenses committed within his or her county,
and all matters and causes cognizable by the Supreme and Superior Courts on behalf
of the State, file informations and prepare bills of indictment, deliver executions
in favor of the State to an officer for collection immediately after final judgment,
taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be sent to the Commissioner
of Finance and Management, and take measures to collect fines and other demands or
sums of money due to the State or county.
(b) Part-time State’s Attorneys may represent private clients in Superior Court or the
Supreme Court on the question of compensation in highway condemnation cases under
the provisions of 19 V.S.A. chapter 5, in those cases where the condemned land is
located in any county other than that county in which the State’s Attorney was elected. (Amended 1959, No. 328 (Adj. Sess.), § 8(c); 1965, No. 194, § 10, eff. July 1, 1965, operative Feb. 1, 1967; 1969, No. 131, § 24, eff. April 23, 1969; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 1975, No. 33, § 1, eff. April 11, 1975; 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 5(b); 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 178.)