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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BYLAWS AND ORDINANCES
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 251, § 1203)
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§ 1203. Fines
(a) For the breach of any bylaw, rule, regulation, or ordinance, the Village may impose
a fine as specified therein. The court or Judicial Bureau shall impose the costs of
prosecution in addition to the fine, in case of a conviction, and when it is necessary
to abate a nuisance, the expense of abatement may be imposed upon the delinquent in
addition to such fine and costs.
(b) If any person while residing without this State and while owning real or personal
property within the Village shall with and by means of the real or personal estate
or by his or her agents and servants violate any of the ordinances which the Village
is authorized to make, the Village may sue for and recover the penalty for violation
of such ordinance in an action founded on this statute and shall proceed in the same
manner as by law is now provided in civil actions against persons residing without
the State. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)