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20 V.S.A. § 2905
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 174 - Accessibility Standards for Public Buildings and Parking|§ 2905. Accessibility; markings

§ 2905. Accessibility; markings|All public buildings which comply with the standards adopted under this chapter may be marked with the international symbol of access. (Added 2003, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. April 1, 2005.)
20 V.S.A. § 2906
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 174 - Accessibility Standards for Public Buildings and Parking|§ 2906. Administration and enforcement

§ 2906. Administration and enforcement|(a) The department of public safety shall enforce the provisions of this chapter relating to facilities for persons with disabilities and shall adopt rules which are necessary for the performance of its duties under this chapter.(b) Any person may file a complaint with the commissioner of public safety alleging that a public building or unit is out of compliance with the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner shall investigate the complaint, and if substantiated, shall order that the public building or unit be brought into compliance with the provisions of this chapter within a reasonable period of time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the commissioner may establish a priority system for the investigation and enforcement of this chapter.(c) Any person who fails to carry out an order or condition attached to an approval shall be fined not more than $200.00 per day, not to exceed a maximum of $10,000.00, until compliance is effected.(d) On application by the commissioner, the superior court for the county in which a violation of any rule adopted or any order issued under this chapter occurs shall have jurisdiction to enjoin or restrain the violation. An election by the commissioner to proceed under this subsection shall not limit or restrict the commissioner's authority under this or other subchapters.(e) The commissioner may assess penalties under section 2734 of this title against a person who violates this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter. (Added 2003, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. April 1, 2005.)
20 V.S.A. § 2907
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 174 - Accessibility Standards for Public Buildings and Parking|§ 2907. Accessibility standards; residential construction

§ 2907. Accessibility standards; residential construction|(a) As used in this chapter, "residential construction" means new construction of one family or multifamily dwellings. "Residential construction" shall not include a single family dwelling built by the owner for the personal occupancy of the owner and the owner's family, or the assembly or placement of residential construction that is prefabricated or manufactured out-of-state.(b) Any residential construction shall be built to comply with all the following standards:  (1) at least one first floor exterior door that is at least 36 inches wide; (2) first floor interior doors between rooms that are at least 34 inches wide or open doorways that are at least 32 inches wide with thresholds that are level, ramped, or beveled; (3) interior hallways that are level and at least 36 inches wide; (4) environmental and utility controls and outlets that are located at heights that are in compliance with standards adopted by the Vermont Access Board; and (5) bathroom walls that are reinforced to permit attachment of grab bars.   (c) A violation of this section shall neither affect marketability nor create a defect in title of the residential construction.(d) Prior to the sale of residential construction, a seller shall provide written disclosure to a prospective buyer detailing whether the residential construction is in compliance with the standards described in subsection (b) of this section. Disclosure shall be made on a form and in a manner prescribed by the Access Board. (Added 2003, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. April 1, 2005; amended 2015, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 17, 2016.)
20 V.S.A. § 2921
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2921. Powers and duties of official in charge

§ 2921. Powers and duties of official in charge|In towns that do not maintain a firefighting force and are served by a volunteer fire department, the official in charge of such volunteer fire department or in his or her absence the assistant highest in rank present at a fire shall have the powers and duties of a chief engineer provided in section 2673 of this title.
20 V.S.A. § 2922
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2922. Liability of official or member

§ 2922. Liability of official or member|An official of a volunteer fire department shall not be liable for any act or omission on his or her own part, or on the part of any member of such department, while engaged in extinguishing a fire at or near the scene of such fire, nor shall any member of such department be liable for his or her own act or omission if then acting under orders of his or her superior.
20 V.S.A. § 2961
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2961. Authorization

§ 2961. Authorization|Any town, city, or private volunteer fire department may, by ordinance or resolution, authorize and permit its firefighting forces and equipment to go to the aid of a person, corporation, or private volunteer fire department in another municipality, subject to any conditions and restrictions set forth in the ordinance or resolution. (Amended 2021, No. 20, § 182.)
20 V.S.A. § 2962
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2962. Liability

§ 2962. Liability|No political subdivision or private volunteer fire department whose fire fighting forces are rendering outside aid pursuant to this subchapter shall be liable on account of any act or omission on the part of such forces while so engaged, or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection therewith nor shall any commissioner, chief, or the superior officer of a fire department, fire company, or other firefighting force acting pursuant to this subchapter be liable on account of any act or omission on the part of any of his subordinates while such subordinates are rendering aid pursuant to this subchapter under the command of an officer other than himself.
20 V.S.A. § 2963
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2963. Payment

§ 2963. Payment|(a) The person, corporation, private volunteer fire department, or political subdivision which is aided pursuant to this subchapter may reimburse the political subdivision or private volunteer fire department furnishing such aid, such compensation for such services as may be agreed upon by a contract between such person, corporation, private volunteer fire department, or political subdivision and the private volunteer fire department or political subdivision furnishing such aid.(b) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall prevent any assisting private volunteer fire department or political subdivision from assuming all or any part of such loss, damage, expense, or other cost as a result of assistance rendered, or from loaning such equipment, or from donating such services to the receiving private volunteer fire department or political subdivision without charge or cost.
20 V.S.A. § 2964
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2964. Powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities of members

§ 2964. Powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities of members|Whenever the firefighting forces of any town, city or private volunteer fire department are rendering aid pursuant to this subchapter, the officers and members of such firefighting forces shall have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities as if they were performing their duties in the political subdivision in which they are normally employed.
20 V.S.A. § 2965
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2965. Application to other states

§ 2965. Application to other states|The provisions of this subchapter shall apply with respect to firefighting forces and equipment of other states of the United States that render services in this state in answer to a call for assistance provided that the laws of any such state contain substantially similar provisions, as certified by the secretary of state, with respect to firefighting forces and equipment of this state when rendering service in such other state in answer to a call for assistance.
20 V.S.A. § 2981
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2981. Mutual aid fire protection authorized by municipality

§ 2981. Mutual aid fire protection authorized by municipality|A municipality or fire district may vote to authorize its fire department, by its chief or chief engineer, to enter into agreements with such other duly authorized fire departments, or any private and volunteer fire department, as seem appropriate to provide mutual aid fire protection on a systematic basis. A municipal fire department so authorized may join in the formation or operation or both of a district fire mutual aid system, which shall be a public municipal corporation, as provided under sections 2986 through 2992 of this title. (1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2982
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2982. Private and volunteer fire department may enter into mutual aid agreements

§ 2982. Private and volunteer fire department may enter into mutual aid agreements|A private and volunteer fire department may enter into a district fire mutual aid system, which shall be a public municipal corporation, as provided under sections 2986 through 2992 of this title. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2983
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2983. Voting qualifications

§ 2983. Voting qualifications|The qualifications for voting to authorize a municipal fire department to enter into mutual aid agreements shall be the same as those for the election of town officers. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2984
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2984. Vote on authorization

§ 2984. Vote on authorization|The vote on the question of authorizing a municipal fire department to enter into mutual aid agreements may be by voice vote or by ballot on a question substantially as follows:Article - . To see if the town will authorize its fire department, by its chief, to enter into agreements with such other duly authorized fire departments, or any private and volunteer fire department, as seem appropriate to provide mutual fire protection on a systematic basis. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2985
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2985. State aid in preparation

§ 2985. State aid in preparation|When requested to do so by any fire department, the state fire marshal shall aid and assist in the preparation and development of agreements. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2986
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2986. District fire mutual aid systems, formation of

§ 2986. District fire mutual aid systems, formation of|Whenever three or more municipalities within the state vote to authorize their respective fire departments to render outside aid as provided in sections 2981 through 2985 of this title, they may, if they so desire, form a district fire mutual aid system, which shall be a public municipal corporation. They may petition the state fire marshal in writing to call the organization meeting of the system. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2987
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2987. Organization

§ 2987. Organization|Upon receipt of a petition pursuant to section 2986 of this subchapter, the State Fire Marshal shall call the first or organization meeting of the system by giving written notice to the chief of each fire department in the system and may invite private fire departments within the designated area to join in the meeting by giving similar notice to them. Each fire department shall send one delegate to the organization and subsequent meetings and shall be entitled to one vote in all proceedings. The delegate shall be the chief of each fire department or his or her designee. At the organization meeting, the members of the system shall adopt articles of association and bylaws and rules for the future government and operation of the system that shall take effect upon submission to and approval by the Attorney General, who shall cause them to be recorded by the Secretary of State. The system shall be deemed to be formally established upon that recording. The organization meeting shall also elect a board of directors consisting of such number as the delegates determine. Delegates and directors need not be residents. The board of directors shall be the governing body of the system and shall serve for terms of one year and until their successors are elected and qualify. The delegates shall choose from their number the officers of the system, except that a secretary or a treasurer, or both, may be nondelegates. All officers shall have such duties and powers as the bylaws provide. Within the limits of available funds, the directors may employ and fix the compensation of agents and other necessary personnel who shall serve at their pleasure and have and exercise such powers and authority as they may delegate to them. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. Feb. 20, 1968; amended 1979, No. 31; 2021, No. 20, § 183.)
20 V.S.A. § 2988
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2988. Powers and duties

§ 2988. Powers and duties|A district fire mutual aid system shall coordinate the services of all fire departments belonging to it so as to provide better and more efficient cooperation in the protection of life and property against fire and in the case of other accidental or natural emergency within the area that it comprises. It may establish an overall plan or plans for that coordination. Within the limits of available funds, it may acquire and operate property and equipment, including a dispatch center and a communications service, and may extend the advantages of group purchasing and benefits to departments in the system. It may provide and operate training programs for firefighters and others, or enter into agreements with other agencies or institutions to provide and operate those programs. It shall cooperate with other State agencies and with the civil defense authorities, State and local. The State Fire Marshal may give advice, recommendations, and assistance to the system on request. It may accept any and all donations, gifts, and grants of money, property, equipment, supplies, materials, and services from the federal or any State or local government, or any agency of federal, State, or local government and from any person, firm, or corporation, for any of its purposes and functions under this subchapter, and may receive and utilize the donations, gifts, and grants subject to the terms, conditions and rules governing the donations, gifts, and grants. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 8, eff. Feb. 20, 1968; amended 2021, No. 20, § 184.)
20 V.S.A. § 2989
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2989. Joining and withdrawal

§ 2989. Joining and withdrawal|Additional municipalities within the state may join the system, as provided in sections 2981 through 2985 of this title, and shall be received as members subject to the approval of the board of directors. Municipalities which do not have active fire departments may be admitted as members upon such conditions as the board of directors may fix. Private fire departments within the state may also be accepted by the board of directors as members, with equal voting rights under such arrangements as are mutually agreed upon. A municipality or private fire department may, by vote of its governing board, withdraw from the system but the withdrawal shall not be effective until ninety days after written notice of the withdrawal shall have been delivered to one of the officers of the system. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 9, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2990
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2990. Limitation of liability

§ 2990. Limitation of liability|There shall be no liability imposed by law on the system or on any municipality, on the personnel of its fire department, nor on any private fire department or its personnel, belonging to such a system, for failure to respond or to respond reasonably for the purpose of extinguishing a fire or assisting in the case of other accidental or natural emergency. This immunity is not intended to be exclusive of other immunities existing by statute or at common law. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2991
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2991. Appropriations

§ 2991. Appropriations|Municipalities belonging to such a system may raise and appropriate money for the purposes of the system. The general assembly may authorize and appropriate money for the purposes of the system. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 11, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 2992
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 175 - Local Fire Departments|§ 2992. Definition

§ 2992. Definition|The term "private fire department" includes fire protection organizations operated by industries, institutions and establishments for self-protection and also nonprofit volunteer fire associations. Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to interfere with the exclusive jurisdiction vested by law in the state forester and his or her subordinates over forest fires as provided in 10 V.S.A. § 1305 or subchapter 4, chapter 53 of Title 10 or chapter 81 of Title 10, nor to affect the laws governing prevention or extinguishment of forest fires. Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to interfere with general authorization vested by law in a chief engineer of a fire district or chief of a volunteer fire department to give outside aid as provided in sections 2674 and 2961 of this title. (Added 1967, No. 255 (Adj. Sess.), § 12, eff. Feb. 20, 1968.)
20 V.S.A. § 3061
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 177 - Explosives and Fireworks|§ 3061. Possession

§ 3061. Possession|A person who keeps or suffers to be kept upon premises owned or occupied by him or her , within 50 rods of an inhabited building of another person, more than 50 pounds of gunpowder or nitroglycerine at one time, or more than one pound unless contained in sound canisters of tin or other metal, or a package containing more than 50 pounds of dynamite, shall be fined  $25.00, and $25.00 additional for each day that it is so kept after notice from an inhabitant of such town to remove the same.
20 V.S.A. § 3062
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 177 - Explosives and Fireworks|§ 3062. Unlawful transportation

§ 3062. Unlawful transportation|(a) No person shall transport, carry or convey from one place in this state to another place in this state, dynamite, gunpowder, or other explosive on a vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier, which vessel or vehicle is carrying passengers for hire.(b) No person shall transport, carry, or convey intrastate, liquid nitroglycerine, fulminate in bulk in dry condition, or other like explosive, on a vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier in the transportation of passengers or articles of commerce by land or water.
20 V.S.A. § 3063
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 177 - Explosives and Fireworks|§ 3063. Lawful transportation

§ 3063. Lawful transportation|It shall be lawful to transport on such vessel or vehicle small arms, ammunition in any quantity, and such fuses, torpedoes, rockets, or other signal devices, as may be essential to promote safety in operation; and properly packed and marked samples of explosives for laboratory examination, not exceeding a net weight of a half pound each, and not exceeding twenty samples at one time in a single vessel or vehicle, but such samples shall not be carried in that part of a vessel or vehicle which is intended for transportation of passengers for hire. However, subsection 3062(a) of this title shall not be construed to prevent the transportation of military or naval forces with their accompanying munitions of war on passenger equipment, vessels, or vehicles.
20 V.S.A. § 3064
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 177 - Explosives and Fireworks|§ 3064. Marking packages

§ 3064. Marking packages|Every package containing explosives or other dangerous articles when presented to a common carrier for shipment shall have plainly marked on the outside the contents thereof. No person shall deliver or cause to be delivered to a common carrier an explosive, or other dangerous article under a false or deceptive marking, description, invoice, shipping order, or other declaration, or without informing the agent of such carrier of the true character thereof, at or before the time such delivery for carriage is made.
20 V.S.A. § 3065
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 177 - Explosives and Fireworks|§ 3065. Penalties

§ 3065. Penalties|(a) A person who knowingly violates, or causes to be violated, a provision of sections 3062-3064 of this title, or a regulation made by the Public Utility Commission in pursuance thereof, shall be imprisoned not more than 18 months or fined not more than $2,000.00, or both.(b) When the death or bodily injury of a person is caused by the explosion of any explosive named in sections 3062-3064 and 3091-3092 of this title, while the same is being placed upon a vessel or vehicle to be transported in violation hereof, or while the same is being so transported, or while the same is being removed from such vessel or vehicle, the person who knowingly places, or aids or permits the placement of such explosives upon such vessel or vehicle to be so transported, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961.)
20 V.S.A. § 3071
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 20 - Internal Security and Public Safety|Chapter 177 - Explosives and Fireworks|§ 3071. Possession by employee

§ 3071. Possession by employee|For the purposes of this division, explosives in the possession of an employee who is acting within the scope of his duties shall be considered to be in the possession of the employer. (Added 1971, No. 107, § 10, eff. May 22, 1971.)