2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 07 Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 19 ENFORCEMENT
§ 561 Authority of liquor control investigators; arrest for unlawfully manufacturing, possessing, or transporting alcoholic beverages; seizure of property

561. Authority of liquor control investigators; arrest for unlawfully manufacturing, possessing, or transporting alcoholic beverages; seizure of property

(a) The Director of the Enforcement Division of the Department of Liquor Control and investigators employed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Department of Liquor Control shall be certified as full-time law enforcement officers by the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council and shall have the same powers and immunities as those conferred on the State Police by 20 V.S.A. 1914.

(b) The Commissioner of Liquor Control, the Director of the Enforcement Division of the Department of Liquor Control or an investigator employed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Department of Liquor Control and any other law enforcement officer may arrest or take into custody pursuant to the Vermont Rules of Criminal Procedure, a person whom he or she finds in the act of manufacturing alcohol or possessing a still, or other apparatus for the manufacture of alcohol, or unlawfully selling, bartering, possessing, furnishing or transporting alcohol, or unlawfully selling, furnishing or transporting spirituous liquor, or malt and vinous beverages, and shall seize the liquors, alcohol, vessels and implements of sale and the stills or other apparatus for the manufacture of alcohol in the possession of the person. He or she may also seize and take into custody any property described in this section. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), 33, eff. March 1, 1961; 1987, No. 201 (Adj. Sess.); 2011, No. 17, 1, eff. May 11, 2011; 2011, No. 17, 3, eff. July 1, 2013; 2013, No. 64, 7, 8, eff. June 3, 2013.)