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: 28 V.S.A. § 1003)
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§ 1003. Commitments
When process is delivered to an officer to serve, requiring the officer to commit
a person to jail to await examination or trial before a Superior Court, if the order
for commitment was made within the limits of a town, incorporated village, or a county
maintaining a lockup, that person may be committed for not more than 72 hours, unless
the time is extended by court order, to the lockup and be subject to the restraints
and entitled to the privileges provided by law for persons confined in a correctional
facility. A person under 18 years of age charged or convicted of a misdemeanor may
not be detained in a lockup used to house inmates over 18 years of age, except as
provided in 33 V.S.A. § 5293. (Added 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 1987, No. 182 (Adj. Sess.), § 6; 2013, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 132, eff. May 20, 2014.)