2011 Vermont Code
Title 07 Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 19 ENFORCEMENT
§ 572 Forfeiture and condemnation of seized vehicle or craft

§ 572. Forfeiture and condemnation of seized vehicle or craft

If such officer seizes malt or vinous beverages, spirituous liquor or alcohol and takes possession of a vehicle, team, automobile, boat, air or water craft or other conveyance in which such malt or vinous beverages, spirituous liquors or alcohol is being unlawfully transported or in which alcohol is unlawfully possessed, without a warrant, he or she shall forthwith make complaint, under oath, subscribed by him or her, to a judge of the criminal division of the superior court, in whose jurisdiction the same was seized. Thereupon the same proceedings shall be had as to the liquor or alcohol and the vehicle and team or automobile, motor vehicle, boat, air or water craft, or other conveyances as would be had if malt or vinous beverages or spirituous liquors had been seized, except that if the vehicle and team, or automobile, boat, air or water craft, or other conveyance, shall be finally adjudged forfeited and condemned the same, upon the written order of the magistrate, shall be sold a

t public sheriff's sale for the benefit of the state. The officer making the sale shall make return in writing to the court issuing such order of sale with the proceeds thereof, less his or her expenses and fees for keeping and selling the same, which fees shall be the same as for the sale of personal property upon execution. (Amended 1965, No. 194, { 10, operative Feb. 1, 1967; 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), { 9, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 154, { 238.)