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.
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 7, § 15)
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§ 15. Constable
The Constable shall have the same powers and be under the same duties and liabilities
as are prescribed by law for the constables of towns, except for the collection of
taxes, and said Constable and all special police officers shall have the same powers
as sheriffs in suppressing riots and all unlawful assemblages, and of arresting without
warrant all persons disturbing the peace, and may bring them before any competent
court forthwith. The City Constable shall be Collector of Taxes and shall have the
same powers and be subject to the same liabilities in and for the City as collectors
of town taxes in the State have by law and are subject to, and shall proceed in the
performance of his or her duties as such collectors of town taxes are required to
proceed. It shall be the duty of the Collector of Taxes of said City to execute such
warrant as shall be issued by the City Treasurer under the provisions of section 14
of this charter, and return the same to the said Treasurer and the amount thereon
collected, with the return of his or her doings thereon within the time therein named;
provided, however, that if the said Treasurer shall make an affidavit that any person,
whose name appears on the rate-bill as a taxpayer, is about to remove or abscond from
the State, and shall file the same with the City Council, the Treasurer may thereupon
issue a warrant against such taxpayer for the amount of his or her tax, although the
90 days hereinbefore mentioned shall not have then expired, and it shall be the duty
of the said Collector to execute the warrant. The City Council may award such Tax
Collector additional compensation for the collection of taxes beyond that now fixed
by statute.