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. 261, § 15)
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§ 15. Further duties of auditor; police officers, how appointed and removed; their powers
and duties
The auditors shall not allow a claim or account for the personal service of a Village
officer except when compensation for such service is fixed by law or by a vote of
the Village. The auditors shall include in their report to the Village a statement
of the amount of such claims presented and disallowed, with the nature and extent
of the services rendered for which such compensation was claimed. The said trustees
shall have power to appoint police officers not exceeding five in number, by an instrument
in writing under their hands, who shall be qualified by taking an oath that they shall
faithfully perform their respective duties as such police officers, which instrument
of appointment shall be recorded by and in the office of the Clerk of said Village;
but such appointment may be revoked by a majority of said trustees in their discretion,
which revocation shall also be in writing and recorded by said Clerk. Such police
officers shall by virtue of said appointment be informing officers, constables, and
conservators of the peace within said Village, may serve any criminal process returnable
within said Village, and upon view of any violation of this charter, the provisions
thereof, or of any bylaw of said corporation within the limits of said Village, may
arrest the offender forthwith and without warrant for that purpose, and carry such
offender before any justice of the peace to answer complaint therefor, and may make
complaint on oath in the name of such corporation against such offender, and upon
the trial of such complaint shall be a competent witness; provided that if any such
police officer shall so arrest any such offender, the police officer may commit the
offender to the Village lockup or otherwise detain the offender in safe custody not
exceeding 24 hours, at the end of which time the offender shall be discharged, unless
previously taken before some justice of the peace to answer to the offence for which
the offender was arrested; provided further, however, that if such arrest shall be
made between sunset of Saturday and sunrise of the following morning such offender
may be retained in safe custody until the next following Monday morning; and for such
arrest and the services connected therewith, such police officer shall receive the
same fees as sheriffs or constables are entitled to for the same or similar services. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 15.)