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: 33 V.S.A. § 5727)
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§ 5727. Oversight; enforcement; dispute resolution
(a) Oversight.
(1) The Interstate Commission shall oversee the administration and operations of the interstate
movement of juveniles subject to this compact in the compacting states and shall monitor
such activities being administered in noncompacting states which may significantly
affect compacting states.
(2) The courts and executive agencies in each compacting state shall enforce this compact
and shall take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate the compact’s purposes
and intent. The provisions of this compact and the rules promulgated hereunder shall
be received by all the judges, public officers, commissions, and departments of the
state government as evidence of the authorized statute and administrative rules.
All courts shall take judicial notice of the compact and the rules. In any judicial
or administrative proceeding in a compacting state pertaining to the subject matter
of this compact which may affect the powers, responsibilities or actions of the Interstate
Commission, it 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.
(b) Dispute resolution.
(1) The compacting states shall report to the Interstate Commission on all issues and
activities necessary for the administration of the compact as well as issues and activities
pertaining to compliance with the provisions of the compact and its bylaws and rules.
(2) The Interstate Commission shall attempt, upon the request of a compacting state, to
resolve any disputes or other issues which are subject to the compact and which may
arise among compacting states and between compacting and noncompacting states. The
Commission shall promulgate a rule providing for both mediation and binding dispute
resolution for disputes among the compacting states.
(3) The Interstate Commission, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, shall enforce
the provisions and rules of this compact using any or all means set forth in section 5731 of this title. (Added 2009, No. 108 (Adj. Sess.), § 12, eff. July 1, 2010.)