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2012 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Municipal and County Government
Chapter 5 COUNTY OFFICERS; POWERS AND DUTIES
§ 333 Confinement of sheriff; vacancy


24 V.S.A. § 333. What's This?

§ 333. Confinement of sheriff; vacancy

A high bailiff by virtue of a writ or other process directed to him against the sheriff may commit the sheriff to the commissioner of corrections. While the sheriff remains in confinement, or in case of vacancy in the office, the functions of the sheriff shall be exercised by the high bailiff, who shall have the powers and be subject to the liabilities of a sheriff until the sheriff is released from confinement or one is appointed and sworn into office. (1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 17, eff. July 1, 1972.)

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