2005 Vermont Code - § 3101. — Tampering with equipment resulting in death

§ 3101. Tampering with equipment resulting in death

A person who wilfully and maliciously tampers with, displaces, damages or removes a railroad switch, track, bridge, sign, signal, fence or other structure, or places an obstruction on such railroad track or bridge or in the railroad right-of-way, or wilfully and maliciously does or causes to be done an act whereby an engine, on-rail motor vehicle, machine, rolling stock or structure, or any matter or thing appertaining thereto, is stopped, diverted, obstructed, or set in motion, with reckless disregard for the life of any person passing over such railroad, and in consequence thereof a person is killed, shall be guilty of manslaughter. (Amended 1983, No. 232 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)