2011 Vermont Code
Title 10 Conservation and Development
Chapter 83 DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS, PARKS AND RECREATION
§ 2642 Salary and compensation of fire wardens

§ 2642. Salary and compensation of fire wardens

(a) The salary of a town fire warden shall be determined by the selectmen for time spent in the performance of the duties of his office, which shall be paid by the town. He or she shall also receive from the town the sum of $0.15 for each fire permit issued. In addition thereto, he or she shall receive from the commissioner $20.00 annually for properly making out and submitting reports of fires in his or her district and keeping the required state records. He or she shall also receive from the commissioner $15.00 per diem for attendance at each training meeting called by the commissioner.

(b) The pay of a warden of an unorganized town or gore and his or her assistants, including patrolmen, and all expenses incurred by him or her in extinguishing forest fires, as provided for by the commissioner, including employment of a person to assist him or her, on the approval of the commissioner, shall be paid by the state from the moneys annually available from taxes in the unorganized town and gore, and the commissioner of finance and management shall issue his or her warrant therefor.

(c) A person employed by a warden to assist him or her in extinguishing a forest fire as authorized under section 2644 of this title, shall be paid at the same rate per hour as is paid for labor upon highways. A minimum of two hours' pay for the first hour or any portion thereof shall be allowed persons who are officially summoned to assist in the extinguishment of forest fires. When a warden employs men in extinguishing a fire in a municipality adjoining his or her own, the expense incurred shall be paid by the municipality in which the work was done at the rate of pay prevailing in the municipality where the laborers reside. A municipality wherein such warden resides shall forthwith pay the warden and assistants for their services, and the municipality may recover the expense thereof in a civil action on this statute from the municipality where the work was done. (Added 1977, No. 253 (Adj. Sess.), { 1; amended 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), { 5(b).)