The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 24 : Municipal and County Government
Chapter 061 : Regulatory Provisions; Police Power of Municipalities
Subchapter 011 : MISCELLANEOUS REGULATORY POWERS
(Cite as: 24 V.S.A. § 2296b)-
§ 2296b. Expungement of municipal violation records
(a) Expungement. Two years following the satisfaction of a judgment resulting from an adjudication of a municipal violation, the Judicial Bureau shall make an entry of “expunged” and notify the municipality of such action, provided the person has not been adjudicated for any subsequent municipal violations during that time. The data transfer to the municipality shall include the name, date of birth, ticket number, and offense. Violations of offenses adopted pursuant to chapter 117 of this title shall not be eligible for expungement under this section.
(b) Effect of expungement.
(1) Upon entry of an expungement order, the order shall be legally effective immediately and the individual whose record is expunged shall be treated in all respects as if the individual had never been adjudicated of the violation.
(2) Upon an entry of expunged, the case will be accessible only by the Clerk of the Court for the Judicial Bureau or the Clerk’s designee. Adjudications that have been expunged shall not appear in the results of any Judicial Bureau database search by name, date of birth, or any other data identifying the defendant. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, any documents or other records related to an expunged adjudication that are maintained outside the Judicial Bureau’s case management system shall be destroyed.
(3) Upon receiving an inquiry from any person regarding an expunged record, the Judicial Bureau and the municipality shall respond that “NO RECORD EXISTS.”
(c) Exception for research entities. Research entities that maintain adjudication records for purposes of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating criminal justice data shall not be subject to the expungement requirements established in this section. Research entities shall abide by the policies established by the Court Administrator and shall not disclose any identifying information from the records they maintain.
(d) Policies for implementation. The Court Administrator shall establish policies for implementing this section.
(e) Application. This section shall apply to municipal violations that occur on and after July 1, 2025. (Added 2025, No. 60, § 3, eff. July 1, 2025.)
