The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 24 : Municipal and County Government
Chapter 005 : County Officers; Powers and Duties
Subchapter 007 : STATE'S ATTORNEY
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 363)-
§ 363. Deputy State’s Attorneys
(a) A State’s Attorney may appoint as many deputy State’s Attorneys as necessary for the proper and efficient performance of the State’s Attorney’s office and may remove them at pleasure. The Executive Committee of the Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs may authorize or direct the Department’s Executive Director to appoint deputy State’s Attorneys who shall have all of the same powers and duties of any other deputy State’s Attorney except that such deputies may prosecute cases in any county of the State. The Executive Committee shall have the authority to limit the term and scope of any such appointments and may remove such deputies at the Committee’s pleasure.
(b) The pay for deputy State’s Attorneys shall be fixed by the Executive Director of the Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs or through collective bargaining pursuant to 3 V.S.A. chapter 27, but it shall not exceed the pay of the State’s Attorney making the appointment or other appointing authority. Deputy State’s Attorneys shall be compensated only for periods of actual performance of the duties of the office. Deputy State’s Attorneys shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred in connection with their official duties when approved by the State’s Attorneys and the Commissioner of Finance and Management.
(c) Deputy State’s Attorneys shall exercise all the powers and duties of the State’s Attorneys except the power to designate someone to act in the event of their own disqualification.
(d) Deputy State’s Attorneys may not enter upon the duties of the office until they have taken the oath or affirmation of allegiance to the State and the oath of office required by the Constitution, and until the oath together with their appointment is filed for record with the county clerk. If appointed and under oath, a deputy State’s Attorney appointed by a State’s attorney may prosecute cases in another county if the State’s Attorney in the other county files the deputy’s appointment in the other county clerk’s office. In case of a vacancy in the office of State’s Attorney, the appointment of the deputy, except for a deputy appointed by the Executive Committee or Executive Director, shall expire upon the appointment of a new State’s Attorney. (Amended 1959, No. 253, eff. June 11, 1959; 1959, No. 328 (Adj. Sess.), § 8(c); 1967, No. 363 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 2, eff. March 27, 1968; 1969, No. 266 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. April 8, 1970; 1971, No. 120, § 49; 1971, No. 260 (Adj. Sess.), § 33; 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 5(b); 2009, No. 58, § 24; 2017, No. 81, § 12, eff. June 15, 2017; 2023, No. 39, § 1a, eff. June 1, 2023.)
