The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 28 : Public Institutions and Corrections
Chapter 011 : Supervision of Adult Inmates at the Correctional Facilities
Subchapter 002 : EMPLOYMENT OF INMATES
(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 752)-
§ 752. Offender Work Programs Special Fund
(a) An Offender Work Programs Special Fund shall be maintained for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 751b of this title, which Fund shall include any appropriations made from time to time by the General Assembly and any sums obtained from the sale of goods and services produced by offenders pursuant to section 751b of this title. The Special Fund shall be managed pursuant to 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5.
(b) Any expenses incurred by offender work programs shall be defrayed by this Fund.
(c) All balances of the Fund remaining at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward and be made available for the succeeding fiscal year, and shall be kept as a special fund by the State Treasurer, except that any balance at the end of a fiscal year not needed to maintain offender work programs or for other purposes provided by section 751b or 761 of this title shall by September 1 of the subsequent fiscal year be transferred to the Victims’ Compensation Fund established under 13 V.S.A. chapter 167.
(d) The Fund also may be used, at the discretion of the Commissioner, to further the raising, harvesting, and preservation of food.
(e) Purchases of materials for resale may be made from the Fund, but the Fund shall be maintained intact except for temporary depletion in making such purchases for resale.
(f) [Repealed.] (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 1997, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 11; 1999, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 59, eff. May 24, 2000; 2009, No. 33, § 83(l)(1); 2019, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), § 11.)
