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. 227, § 7)
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§ 7. Police officers
(a) The trustees of the Village shall have power to and may appoint the number of police
officers within the Village as the trustees may judge necessary for the interests
of the inhabitants thereof, by writing under their hands, which shall be recorded
by the Village Clerk, and the appointments may in the same way be revoked at any time.
(b) The trustees may specify their duties as watchmen and patrols, and agree with them
for their compensation, which shall be paid by the Village. Each of the police shall
be sworn, and shall have the same powers within the limits of the Village as constables
in serving criminal process and in criminal matters, and when on duty shall wear conspicuously
a badge of office, and shall hold their office one year unless sooner discharged as
aforesaid. The police officers may serve warrants beyond the limits of the Village
for offenses committed therein, and shall be a complaining officer for all offenses
committed within the limits of the Village in violation of any provision of this charter
or the bylaws and lawful orders of the Village and its officers.