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
003A
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INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT
(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 1420p)
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§ 1420p. Oversight of Interstate Compact
(a) The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government in each member
state shall enforce the Compact and shall take all actions necessary and appropriate
to effectuate the Compact’s purposes and intent. The provisions of the Compact and
the rules promulgated hereunder shall have standing as statutory law but shall not
override existing state authority to regulate the practice of medicine.
(b) All courts shall take judicial notice of the Compact and the rules in any judicial
or administrative proceeding in a member state pertaining to the subject matter of
the Compact that may affect the powers, responsibilities, or actions of the Interstate
Commission.
(c) The Interstate Commission shall be entitled to receive all service of process in any
such proceeding, and shall have standing to intervene in the proceeding for all purposes.
Failure to provide service of process to the Interstate Commission shall render a
judgment or order void as to the Interstate Commission, the Compact, or promulgated
rules. (Added 2017, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.)