The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 353)
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§ 353. Powers and responsibilities of the Commissioner of Corrections; supervised community
sentence
The Commissioner shall be charged with the following powers and responsibilities regarding
the administration of supervised community sentences:
(1) To maintain general supervision and treatment of persons serving a supervised community
sentence.
(2) To establish alternative sentencing programs for the sanction, treatment, and control
of offenders sentenced under this chapter and, in the Commissioner’s discretion, to
require payment of reasonable fees for such services.
(3) To award grants to local private or public agencies for the development and operation
of alternative community programs in furtherance of the goals and purposes of this
chapter, in accordance with policies established in this chapter and within the limits
of any appropriation made for this purpose.
(4) In accordance with 3 V.S.A. chapter 25, to adopt rules consistent with the provisions
of this chapter regarding the supervision, maintenance, treatment, and all attendant
matters, including standards for the deletion, addition, and modification of conditions,
to be applied to offenders sentenced to a term of imprisonment under a supervised
community sentence.
(5) To detain for safekeeping at a correctional facility any offender who allegedly has
violated the conditions of supervision pending a hearing before the Parole Board.
(6) To give to the Parole Board, or its properly accredited representatives, access at
all reasonable times to any offender who has been sentenced under this chapter and
provide the Board or its representatives such reports as the Board may require concerning
the conduct of any offender under the supervision of the Commissioner and any other
facts considered by the Board pertinent in determining whether the supervised community
sentence should be revoked or continued. (Added 1989, No. 291 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)