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13 V.S.A. § 2136
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2136. Possession

§ 2136. Possession|A person shall be punished as provided in section 2139 of this title who has in his or her possession, or under his or her control, or who permits to be placed, maintained, or kept in a place of public resort or in premises occupied by him or her, or under his or her management or control a machine, apparatus, or device as mentioned in section 2135 of this title.
13 V.S.A. § 2137
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2137. Seizure; hearing

§ 2137. Seizure; hearing|A sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer shall seize without a warrant any machine or device described in sections 2134 and 2135 of this title, found in a place of public resort. A sheriff or other officer making such a seizure shall forthwith make a complaint under oath, subscribed by him or her, to a district judge in the county in which such seizure is made and shall summon the owner or occupant of the place in which such seizure is made to appear before such court and show cause why such machine should not be destroyed. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, operative February 1, 1967; 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), § 45, eff. April 9, 1974.)
13 V.S.A. § 2138
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2138. Destruction

§ 2138. Destruction|If, upon hearing, it is found that such machine was seized in a place of public resort, or was seized in any place by reason of a search warrant lawfully issued, the same shall be ordered destroyed and all money or other contents thereof forfeited to the State. The court shall issue its warrant to carry such order into effect.
13 V.S.A. § 2139
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2139. Penalties

§ 2139. Penalties|An association, copartnership, corporation, or person who violates a provision of sections 2135-2138 of this title shall be fined not more than $100.00 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
13 V.S.A. § 2141
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2141. Winning or losing by gambling

§ 2141. Winning or losing by gambling|A person who wins or loses money or other valuable thing by play or hazard at any game, or by betting on such play or hazard, or sharing in a stake wagered by others on such play or hazard, shall be fined not more than $200.00 nor less than $10.00.
13 V.S.A. § 2143a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2143a. Political parties

§ 2143a. Political parties|Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, a political party, organized under 17 V.S.A. chapter 45, may organize and execute, and an individual may participate in, raffles, the proceeds of which are to be used in undertakings consistent with the purpose of political parties. (Added 1983, No. 136 (Adj. Sess.).)
13 V.S.A. § 2143b
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2143b. Contests and sweepstakes

§ 2143b. Contests and sweepstakes|Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, a person may organize, execute, or participate in a contest or game of chance, including a sweepstakes, provided that persons who enter the contest or game of chance are not required to venture money or other valuable things. The cost of mailing an entry shall not be considered a venture of money or other valuable things. This section shall not be construed to prohibit a person from organizing, executing, or participating in a contest that is not a contest of chance. (Added 1989, No. 7; amended 2013, No. 9, § 2.)
13 V.S.A. § 2151
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2151. Bookmaking; pool selling; off-track wagers

§ 2151. Bookmaking; pool selling; off-track wagers|(a) A person shall not:  (1) engage in bookmaking or pool selling, except deer pools or other pools in which all of the monies paid by the participants, as an entry fee or otherwise, are paid out to either the winning participants based on the result of the pool or to a nonprofit organization or event as described in 31 V.S.A. § 1201(5) where the funds are to be used as described in that subdivision, or both; (2) keep or occupy, for any period of time, any place or enclosure of any kind, with any material for recording any wager, or any purported wager, or selling pools, except as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection, upon the result of any contest, lot, chance, unknown or contingent event, whether actual or purported; (3) receive, hold, or forward, or purport or pretend to receive, hold, or forward, in any manner, any money, thing, or consideration of value, or the equivalent or memorandum thereof, wagered, or to be wagered, or offered for the purpose of being wagered, upon such result; (4) record or register, at any time or place, any wager upon such result; (5) permit any place or enclosure that the person owns, leases, or occupies to be used or occupied for any purpose or in any manner prohibited by subdivision (1), (2), (3), or (4) of this section; or (6) with the exception of pools as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection, lay, make, offer, or accept any wager, upon such result or contest of skill, speed, or power of endurance of human or beast, or between humans, beasts, or mechanical apparatus.   (b) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, a public retail establishment, including a holder of a second-class license issued under Title 7, may sell raffle tickets on the retail premises for a nonprofit organization that has organized the raffle, provided the raffle is conducted in accordance with section 2143 of this title and that no person is compensated for expenses, as outlined in subdivision 2143(e)(1)(B) of this title. (Added 1961, No. 185, § 1; amended 1983, No. 43, § 2; 1999, No. 33, § 1; 2019, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), § 16.)
13 V.S.A. § 2152
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2152. Penalty

§ 2152. Penalty|A person who violates a provision of section 2151 of this title shall be fined not more than $250.00 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, for the first offense and fined not more than $2,000.00 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, for a subsequent offense. When a person has been convicted in any state of a felony or of a violation of a statute prohibiting bookmaking, his or her conviction under this section shall be considered a subsequent offense. (Added 1961, No. 185, § 2; amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)
13 V.S.A. § 2153
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2153. Prohibition on dog and horse race betting

§ 2153. Prohibition on dog and horse race betting|A person shall not hold, conduct, operate, or simulcast a pari-mutuel dog race or pari-mutuel horse race for public exhibition. (Added 1961, No. 185, § 3; amended 1973, No. 233 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; 2019, No. 14, § 44, eff. April 30, 2019; 2019, No. 128 (Adj. Sess.), § 17.)
13 V.S.A. § 2155
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2155. Penalty

§ 2155. Penalty|A person who violates a provision of section 2153 of this title shall be fined not more than $5,000.00 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (Added 1961, No. 185, § 5; amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23.)
13 V.S.A. § 2171
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2171. "Bucket shops"

§ 2171. "Bucket shops"|A person or corporation shall not keep or cause to be kept a "bucket shop," office, store, or other place in which it is conducted or permitted the pretended buying or selling of stock or bonds of a corporation, or petroleum, cotton, grain, provisions, pork, or other produce, either on margins or otherwise, without any intention of receiving and paying for the property so bought, or of delivering the property so sold; or in which is conducted or permitted the pretended buying or selling of such property on margins; or when the party buying or offering to buy such property does not intend actually to receive the same if purchased, or the person selling such property to deliver it if sold.
13 V.S.A. § 2172
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2172. Evidence

§ 2172. Evidence|If stocks or bonds are in any manner quoted in such places, or the word "corporation," "association," or "company," or an abbreviation thereof, used therein and therewith, it shall be prima facie evidence that such stocks or bonds are the stocks or bonds of then going corporations. If such stocks or bonds, or such petroleum, cotton, grain, provisions, pork, or other produce are not actually received when purchased or actually delivered when sold, it shall be prima facie evidence that:  (1) such property was sold or purchased without any intention of receiving it or paying for or delivering it; (2) such property was bought or sold on margins; and (3) the parties buying or offering to buy or selling such property did not intend actually to receive or deliver the same.
13 V.S.A. § 2173
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2173. Penalties

§ 2173. Penalties|A person or corporation, whether acting individually, or as a member, officer, agent, or employee of a corporation, who violates a provision of section 2171 of this title shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 nor less than $200.00. A person who is guilty of a second offense, in addition to the penalty above prescribed, shall be imprisoned six months and, if a corporation, shall be liable to forfeit its charter. The continuance of such establishment after a first conviction shall be deemed a second offense. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)
13 V.S.A. § 2174
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2174. What constitutes offense; accessories

§ 2174. What constitutes offense; accessories|The offense shall be complete against a person or corporation pretending or offering to sell or to buy, as provided in sections 2171 and 2172 of this title, whether the offer to sell or buy is accepted or not. A person or corporation communicating, receiving, exhibiting, or displaying in any manner such offer so to buy or sell or any statements or quotations of the prices of such property, with a view to such transaction, shall be deemed an accessory and shall be punished as provided in section 2173 of this title.
13 V.S.A. § 2175
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2175. Commission merchants to furnish statement of contract

§ 2175. Commission merchants to furnish statement of contract|A person or corporation doing business as a commission merchant or broker shall furnish, on demand, to a customer or principal for whom such person or corporation has executed an order for the actual purchase or sale of any of the commodities mentioned in sections 2171 and 2172 of this title, either for immediate or future delivery, a written statement containing the names of the parties from whom such property was bought, or to whom sold, the time when, place where, and price at which the same was bought or sold. If such person or corporation refuses promptly to furnish such statement upon reasonable demand, such refusal shall be prima facie evidence that such property was not bought or sold in a legitimate manner.
13 V.S.A. § 2176
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2176. Liability of landlords

§ 2176. Liability of landlords|A person who knowingly permits any of the illegal acts mentioned in sections 2171-2175 of this title in a building, booth, or erection of which he or she has the care or possession shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 nor less than $500.00. A penalty so adjudged shall be a lien upon the premises on or in which such unlawful acts are carried on or permitted.
13 V.S.A. § 2177
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 51 - Gambling and Lotteries|§ 2177. Restraint by injunction; costs

§ 2177. Restraint by injunction; costs|When a prosecution is commenced for the violation of a provision of sections 2171, 2173, 2174, or 2176 of this title, the State's Attorney may petition the presiding judge of the Superior Court to enjoin the carrying on of such unlawful business in the place where the complaint, information, or indictment charges that it has been conducted. Such presiding judge shall hear and determine such petition in the manner provided by law and the rules of civil procedure for the determination of causes and may, if the allegations therein are sustained, permanently enjoin the person, firm, or corporation shown to have kept or caused to have been kept such place, from conducting such prohibited business therein. The Superior Court or presiding judge may, upon petition therefor in such proceedings, issue a temporary injunction to effect, during the pendency of the petition, the closing of such place against such unlawful business. The costs of the proceedings authorized by this section shall be taxed against the defendant in case the State prevails. (Amended 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 236, eff. March 29, 1972; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)
13 V.S.A. § 2301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2301. Murder-degrees defined

§ 2301. Murder-degrees defined|Murder committed by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate arson, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery, or burglary shall be murder in the first degree. All other kinds of murder shall be murder in the second degree. (Amended 1983, No. 23, § 1; 2018, No. 8 (Sp. Sess.), § 12, eff. June 28, 2018.)
13 V.S.A. § 2302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2302. Determination of degree

§ 2302. Determination of degree|The jury by whom a person is tried for murder, if it finds such person guilty thereof, shall state in its verdict whether it is murder in the first or in the second degree. If such person is convicted on confession in open court, the court, by examination of witnesses, shall determine the degree of the crime and give sentence accordingly.
13 V.S.A. § 2304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2304. Manslaughter- Penalties

§ 2304. Manslaughter- Penalties|A person who commits manslaughter shall be fined not more than $3,000.00 or imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than 15 years, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1981, No. 205 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
13 V.S.A. § 2305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2305. Justifiable homicide

§ 2305. Justifiable homicide|If a person kills or wounds another under any of the circumstances enumerated below, he or she shall be guiltless:  (1) in the just and necessary defense of the person's own life or the life of the person's spouse, parent, child, sibling, guardian, or ward; or (2) if the person reasonably believed that he or she was in imminent peril and that it was necessary to repel that peril with deadly force, in the forceful or violent suppression of a person attempting to commit murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, burglary, or robbery; or (3) in the case of a law enforcement officer as defined in 20 V.S.A. § 2351(a) using force in compliance with 20 V.S.A. § 2368(b)(1)-(2) and (5) or deadly force in compliance with 20 V.S.A. § 2368(c)(1)-(4) and (6). (Amended 1983, No. 23, § 2; 2019, No. 165 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 1, 2021; 2021, No. 27, § 4, eff. Oct. 1, 2021.)
13 V.S.A. § 2306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2306. Poisoning food, drink, medicine, or water

§ 2306. Poisoning food, drink, medicine, or water|A person who mingles poison with food, drink, or medicine with intent to injure another person or who, with a like intent, willfully poisons a spring, well, or reservoir of water shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
13 V.S.A. § 2308
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2308. False testimony with intent to cause death

§ 2308. False testimony with intent to cause death|A person who willfully and corruptly bears false testimony with intent to take away the life of a person and thereby causes the life of such person to be taken shall be guilty of murder in the first degree.
13 V.S.A. § 2310
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2310. Conviction of lesser offense

§ 2310. Conviction of lesser offense|(a) Upon indictment or information for an offense under this chapter, a person may be convicted of a lesser included offense, as the case may be, upon the proofs.(b) The time limitation created by subsection 4501(b) of this title for the crime of manslaughter shall not bar a conviction under this section. (Amended 1987, No. 60, § 4, eff. May 16, 1987; 1995, No. 27, § 2.)
13 V.S.A. § 2311
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 53 - Homicide|§ 2311. Aggravated murder defined

§ 2311. Aggravated murder defined|(a) A person is guilty of aggravated murder if he or she commits a first or second degree murder, as defined in section 2301 of this title, and at the time of his or her actions, one or more of the following circumstances was in fact present:  (1) The murder was committed while the defendant was in custody under sentence for murder or aggravated murder. (2) The defendant had, prior to commencement of the trial for aggravated murder, been convicted of another aggravated murder or murder in any jurisdiction in the United States and territories. (3) At the time of the murder, the defendant also committed another murder. (4) At the time of the murder, the defendant knowingly created a great risk of death to another person or persons. (5) The murder was committed for the purpose of avoiding or preventing lawful arrest by a law enforcement officer of any person, or effecting an escape by any person from lawful custody of a law enforcement officer. (6) The murder was committed by a person hired for such purpose in return for anything of value. Both the person hired and the person hiring him or her are guilty of aggravated murder. (7) The victim of the murder was known by the person to be a firefighter, a member of emergency medical personnel as defined in 24 V.S.A. § 2651(6), a person employed in any capacity in or about a correctional facility, or a law enforcement officer, and was performing his or her official duties. (8) The murder was committed in perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault.   (b) In a prosecution for aggravated murder, the State shall allege and prove beyond a reasonable doubt one or more of the circumstances enumerated in subsection (a) of this section.(c) The punishment for aggravated murder shall be imprisonment for life and for no lesser term. The court shall not place on probation or suspend or defer the sentence of any person convicted of aggravated murder. A person sentenced under this section shall not be eligible for parole during the term of imprisonment imposed herein and shall not be eligible for work-release or noncustodial furlough except when serious medical services make custodial furlough inappropriate. (Added 1987, No. 60, § 1, eff. May 16, 1987; amended 2019, No. 16, § 1, eff. May 6, 2019.)
13 V.S.A. § 2404
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 55 - Kidnapping|§ 2404. Definitions

§ 2404. Definitions|As used in this chapter:  (1) "Lawful custodian" means a parent, guardian, or other person responsible by authority of law for the care, custody, or control of another. (2) "Relative" means a parent, stepparent, ancestor, descendant, sibling, uncle, or aunt, including a relative of the same degree through civil marriage or adoption. (3) "Restrain" means to restrict substantially the movement of another person without the person's consent or other lawful authority by:  (A) removing the restrained person from the person's residence or place of business, or from a hospital or school; or (B) moving the restrained person a substantial distance from the place where the restriction on the person's movement commenced; or (C) confining the restrained person for a substantial period either in the place where the restriction commences or in a place to which the person has been moved.  (4) A restraint is "without consent" if it is accomplished:  (A) by acquiescence of the restrained person, if the restrained person is under 16 years of age and the restrained person's lawful custodian has not acquiesced in the movement or confinement; or (B) by force, threat, or deception. (Added 1989, No. 293 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; amended 2009, No. 3, § 12a.)
13 V.S.A. § 2405
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure|Chapter 55 - Kidnapping|§ 2405. Kidnapping

§ 2405. Kidnapping|(a) A person commits the crime of kidnapping if the person:  (1) knowingly restrains another person with the intent to:  (A) hold the restrained person for ransom or reward; or (B) use the restrained person as a shield or hostage; or (C) inflict bodily injury upon the restrained person or place the restrained person or a third person in fear that any person will be subjected to bodily injury; or (D) sexually assault the restrained person or place the restrained person or a third person in fear that any person will be sexually assaulted; or (E) facilitate the commission of another crime or flight thereafter; or  (2) not being a relative of a person under the age of 16, knowingly restrains that person, without the consent of the person's custodian, with the intent to keep the person from his or her lawful custodian for a substantial period.   (b) Kidnapping is punishable by a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or a fine of not more than $50,000.00, or both. It is, however, an affirmative defense which reduces the penalty to imprisonment for not more than 30 years or a fine of not more than $50,000.00, or both, that the defendant voluntarily caused the release of the victim alive in a safe place before arraignment without having caused serious bodily injury to the victim. (Added 1989, No. 293 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)