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2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Municipal and County Government
Chapter 5 COUNTY OFFICERS; POWERS AND DUTIES
§ 301 Penalty for refusal to assist


24 VT Stats § 301. (2011 through Adj Sess) What's This?

§ 301. Penalty for refusal to assist

A person being required in the name of the state by a sheriff, deputy sheriff, high bailiff, deputy bailiff or constable, who neglects or refuses to assist such an officer in the execution of his office, in a criminal cause, or in the preservation of the peace, or in the apprehension and securing of a person for a breach of the peace, or in a search and seizure of intoxicating liquors or in transporting such liquors when seized, or in a case of escape or rescue of persons arrested on civil process, shall be fined not more than $500.00, unless the circumstances under which his assistance is called for amount to a riot, in which case he shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than $100.00, or both.

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