2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 251 VILLAGE OF NORTH BENNINGTON
§ 701 Police Department; appointment; duties

251-701. Police Department; appointment; duties

The Board of Trustees shall also annually appoint a Chief of Police and not more than five additional police officers, except on public occasions, when they may appoint such number of special police for that occasion as they may think necessary, by appointment in writing under their hands, who shall be qualified by taking the oath of office, and causing their said appointments to be recorded by the Clerk of the Village; but any such appointment may be revoked by the said Board, in its discretion, which revocation shall also be in writing and be recorded by said Clerk. Such Chief of Police and other police officers shall, by virtue of their said appointment be constables, informing officers, and conservators of the peace within the Village, and may serve any criminal process throughout the County of Bennington returnable within said Village or to the County Court within and for said County of Bennington; and they may commit any person convicted of a violation of any bylaw, regulation, or ordinance of said Village or any provision of this act, or any law of the State, upon mittimus, to the common jail in Bennington County; and they shall be proper officers in justice criminal courts held within said Village, with full power to empanel, draw, and summon jurors before such justice courts. And such police officers shall be entitled to receive therefor the same fees as constables would be entitled to receive for the same services. Said police officer shall have the same right to demand assistance from any person or persons which sheriffs and constables now have, and any person refusing to assist such police officer shall be subject to the same fines and penalties as now provided by law for refusing to assist a sheriff or constable.