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
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ACTIONS BY OR AGAINST OFFICERS; LIABILITY; PENALTIES
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 901)
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§ 901. Actions by or against town officers
(a) Where an action is given to any appointed or elected municipal officer or town school
district officer, the action shall be brought in the name of the town in which the
officer serves and in the case of a town school district officer in the name of the
town school district. If the action is given against such officers, it shall be brought
against such town or town school district, as the case may be.
(b) The municipality shall assume all reasonable legal fees incurred by an officer when
the officer was acting in the performance of his or her duties and did not act with
any malicious intent. (Amended 1967, No. 147, § 36, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; 1973, No. 235 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)