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2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3405. Promotion of anarchy

§ 3405. Promotion of anarchy
A person who by speech or directly or indirectly by exhibition, distribution, or promulgation of any written or printed document or paper or pictorial representation, shall advocate, advise, counsel, or incite unlawful assault upon, or the killing of a public official, or the unlawful destruction of property, or the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the State, or who, at any meeting or in the presence of more than three persons in any place or in any manner, shall advise, advocate, or counsel the violation of or unlawful refusal to obey a law of the State respecting the preservation of the peace and the protection of life or property shall be imprisoned not more than three years or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3431. Definitions

§ 3431. Definitions
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Highway” includes any private or public street, way, or other place used for travel to or from property.
(2) “Road commissioner” means any individual, board, or other body having authority under then existing law to discontinue the use of the highway that it is desired to restrict or close to public use and travel. The power to discontinue highways or the use thereof vested in any town may, for the purpose of this subchapter, be exercised by the selectboard thereof.
(3) “Public utility” includes any pipeline, gas, electric, heat, water, oil, sewer, telephone, telegraph, radio, railway, railroad, airplane, transportation, communication, or other system, by whomsoever owned or operated, for public use.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3432. Interference with defense or war effort

§ 3432. Interference with defense or war effort
A person who intentionally destroys, impairs, injures, interferes, or tampers with real or personal property, with reasonable grounds to believe that such act will hinder, delay, or interfere with the preparation of the United States or of any of the states for defense or for war, or with the prosecution of war by the United States, shall be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than 10 years or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3433. Defective materials

§ 3433. Defective materials
A person who intentionally makes or causes to be made or omits to note on inspection any defect in any article or thing with reasonable grounds to believe that such article or thing is intended to be used in connection with the preparation of the United States or any of the states for defense or for war, or for the prosecution of war by the United States, or that such article or thing is one of a number of similar articles or things, some of which are so to be used, intending thereby to hinder, delay, or interfere with the preparation of the United States or of any of the states for defense or for war, or with the prosecution of war by the United States, shall be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than 10 years or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3434. Attempts

§ 3434. Attempts
A person who attempts to commit any of the crimes defined by this subchapter shall be liable to one-half the punishment prescribed for the completed crime. In addition to the acts that constitute an attempt to commit a crime under the law of this State, the solicitation or incitement of another to commit any of the crimes defined by this subchapter not followed by the commission of the crime, the collection or assemblage of any materials with the intent that the same are to be used then or at a later time in the commission of such crime, or the entry, with or without permission, into a building, enclosure, or other premises of another with the intent to commit any such crime therein or thereon shall constitute an attempt to commit such crime.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3435. Conspiracy

§ 3435. Conspiracy
If two or more persons conspire to commit any crime defined by this subchapter, each of such persons shall be guilty of conspiracy and subject to the same punishment as if he or she had committed the crime that he or she conspired to commit, whether or not any act be done in furtherance of the conspiracy. The fact that any of his or her fellow conspirators has been acquitted, has not been arrested or convicted, is not amenable to justice, or has been pardoned or otherwise discharged before or after conviction shall not constitute any defense or ground of suspension of judgment, sentence, or punishment on behalf of any person prosecuted under this section.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3436. Self incrimination of witnesses; immunity from prosecution

§ 3436. Self incrimination of witnesses; immunity from prosecution
No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or producing any books, papers, or other documents before any court, magistrate, referee, or grand jury upon any investigation, proceeding, or trial, for or relating to or concerned with a violation of any section of this subchapter or attempt to commit such violation, upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him or her by the State may tend to convict him or her of a crime or to subject him or her to a penalty or forfeiture; but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he or she may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be received against him or her, upon any criminal investigation, proceeding or trial, except upon a prosecution for perjury or contempt of court based upon the giving or producing of such testimony.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3437. Posting premises

§ 3437. Posting premises
An individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipal corporation, or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in, or preparing to engage in the following enterprises, the property of which is enclosed by a fence, wall, building, or water frontage or any combination of the same, may post around such property at each gate, entrance, or dock and for every one hundred feet of water front a sign reading “No entry without permission”:
(1) The manufacture, transportation, or storage of any product to be used in the preparation of the United States or of any of the states for defense or for war or in the prosecution of war by the United States.
(2) The manufacture, transportation, distribution, or storage of gas, oil, coal, electricity, or water.
(3) The operation of any public utility.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3438. Trespass on posted premises

§ 3438. Trespass on posted premises
A person who, without permission from such owner, shall willfully enter upon premises so posted as provided in section 3437 of this title shall be imprisoned not more than 10 days or fined not more than $50.00, or both.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3439. Arrest

§ 3439. Arrest
Any peace officer or any person employed as watchman, guard, or in a supervisory capacity on premises posted as provided in section 3437 of this title may stop any person found on any premises to which entry without permission is forbidden by section 3437 and may detain him or her for the purpose of requiring of him or her his or her name, address, and business in such place. If such peace officer or employee has reason to believe from the answers of the person so interrogated that such person has no right to be in such place, he or she shall forthwith arrest such person without a warrant on the charge of violating the provisions of section 3437.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3440. Closing highways

§ 3440. Closing highways
An individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipal corporation or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in or preparing to engage in the manufacture, transportation, or storage of any product to be used in the preparation of the United States or any of the states for defense or for war or in the prosecution of war by the United States, or in the manufacture, transportation, distribution, or storage of gas, oil, coal, electricity, or water, or any of such natural or artificial persons operating any public utility, who has property so used that he or she or it believes will be endangered if public use and travel is not restricted or prohibited on one or more highways or parts thereof upon which such property abuts, may petition the road commissioners of any city, town, or county to close one or more of such highways or parts thereof to public use and travel or to restrict by order the use and travel upon one or more of such highways or parts thereof.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3441. Notice and hearing

§ 3441. Notice and hearing
Upon receipt of such petition, the road commissioners shall set a day for hearing and give notice thereof by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the city, town, or county in which such property is located, such notice to be at least seven days prior to the date set for hearing. If, after hearing, the road commissioners determine that the public safety and the safety of the property of the petitioner so require, they shall by suitable order close to public use and travel or reasonably restrict the use of and travel upon one or more of such highways or parts thereof. However, the road commissioners may issue written permits to travel over the highway so closed or restricted to responsible and reputable persons for such term, under such conditions and in such form as such commissioners may prescribe. Appropriate notices in letters at least three inches high shall be posted conspicuously at each end of any highway so closed or restricted by such order. The road commissioners may at any time revoke or modify any order so made.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3443. Effect on labor organizations

§ 3443. Effect on labor organizations
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to impair, curtail, or destroy the rights of employees and their representatives to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3444. Suspension of other laws

§ 3444. Suspension of other laws
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this subchapter are hereby suspended in their application to any proceedings under this subchapter. If conduct prohibited by this subchapter is also made unlawful by other law, the offender may be convicted for the violation of this subchapter or of such other law.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3445. When subchapter in force

§ 3445. When subchapter in force
This subchapter shall be in force whenever the United States is at war. However, any violation of this subchapter, committed while the chapter is in force, may be prosecuted and punished thereafter, whether or not this subchapter is in force at the time of such prosecution and punishment.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3482. Furnishing information to enemy

§ 3482. Furnishing information to enemy
(a) A person shall not furnish, nor attempt to furnish, to a government at war with or threatening war on the United States, or to a citizen of such government or to a person whom he or she has reason to believe will furnish or attempt to furnish to such government or citizen, information relative to:
(1) the location, construction, or condition of a military camp, fort, armory, arsenal, or building in which munitions of war are being manufactured or are stored;
(2) the proposed location of such camp, fort, armory, arsenal, or building;
(3) the location or condition or proposed location of a bridge, road, car, boat, canal, dockyard, telephone or telegraph line or equipment, wireless station or equipment, railway or railway equipment, property of a corporation subject to the supervision of the Public Utility Commission;
(4) the topography of the State or a part thereof;
(5) the number, character, condition, or location of the National Guard or the land or naval forces of the United States in this State.
(b) A person who violates a subdivision of subsection (a) of this section shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39; 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3483. Injuries to certain property; penalty

§ 3483. Injuries to certain property; penalty
(a) While the United States is at war or threatened with war, a person shall not:
(1) injure or attempt or conspire, or have in his or her possession any tool, explosive, or means with intent to use the same or for some one else to use, to injure a bridge, road, car, boat, canal, dockyard, telephone or telegraph line or equipment, wireless station or equipment, railway or highway equipment, road or railway making equipment, property, or a corporation subject to the supervision of the Public Utility Commission, property designed for use by the State or a municipality or railway, telephone, or telegraph company, property of a person, copartnership, or corporation engaged in or about to engage in making munitions of war or property to become the property of the State, or a building belonging to the State or a municipality or to a railway, telephone, or telegraph company or to a corporation subject to the supervision of the Public Utility Commission; or
(2) pollute or place any poisonous substance in any water liable to be used by a person or domestic animal.
(b) A person who violates a subdivision of subsection (a) of this section shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39; 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3484. Concerted action by three or more

§ 3484. Concerted action by three or more
If three or more persons, acting in concert, with force and violence, attempt to kill, maim, or wound a person, or to rob a person, corporation, or community of money or other property, or to burn, blow up, or otherwise destroy a bank building, store, factory, dwelling house, or other building or depository of property, or a railway car or engine, or a steamboat, vessel, or other watercraft, finished or unfinished, for use in navigable waters, or property of a corporation subject to the supervision of the Public Utility Commission, each person so offending shall suffer the penalty of death. The provisions of this section shall be in force only while the United States is at war or threatened with war. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39, eff. March 1, 1961.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 75 - Treason and Other Offenses Against the Government › § 3485. Penalty when offense is treason

§ 3485. Penalty when offense is treason
A person who commits an offense punishable under one of sections 3482-3485 of this title, and such offense amounts to treason, shall be punished for treason in lieu of the penalty prescribed in such section. (Amended 2019, No. 77, § 16, eff. June 19, 2019.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 76 - Weapons of Mass Destruction › § 3502. Possession and use of weapons of mass destruction

§ 3502. Possession and use of weapons of mass destruction
(a) A person who knowingly and without lawful authority possesses, develops, manufactures, produces, transfers, acquires, or stockpiles any weapon of mass destruction shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years or fined not more than $100,000.00, or both.
(b) A person who uses or directly employs against other persons a weapon of mass destruction in a form that may cause disabling illness or injury in human beings shall be imprisoned not less than 20 years nor more than life and fined not more than $250,000.00.
(c) A person who uses a weapon of mass destruction in a form that may cause widespread damage to or disruption of water or food supplies shall be imprisoned not less than five years nor more than 30 years and fined not more than $250,000.00.
(d) A person who uses a weapon of mass destruction against livestock or crops with the intent to cause widespread and substantial damage to livestock or crops shall be imprisoned not more than 30 years and fined not more than $250,000.00.
(e) A person who uses a weapon of mass destruction in a form that may cause widespread and significant damage to public or private property shall be imprisoned not more than 30 years and fined not more than $250,000.00.
(f) A person who uses recombinant technology or any other biological advance to create new pathogens or more virulent forms of existing pathogens for the purpose of creating a weapon of mass destruction shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years or fined not more than $250,000.00, or both.
(g) A person who knowingly and intentionally places a hoax weapon in any public place, building, house, residence, facility of public transport, vehicular conveyance, train, ship, boat, aircraft, dam or reservoir for storing water, shall be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both.
(h) No university, research institution, private company, individual, or hospital engaged in scientific or public health research and, as required, registered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pursuant to part 113 (commencing with Section 113.1) of subchapter E of chapter 1 of Title 9 or pursuant to Part 72 (commencing with Section 72.1) of Subchapter E of Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor provisions, shall be subject to this section.
(i) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict prosecution under any other applicable laws. (Added 2001, No. 137 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 76 - Weapons of Mass Destruction › § 3503. Threats

§ 3503. Threats
(a) No person shall communicate a threat to use a weapon of mass destruction, knowing that the threat is likely to cause:
(1) evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transport; or
(2) a person to fear serious bodily injury.
(b) A person who violates this section shall:
(1) For a first offense, be imprisoned for not more than two years or fined not more than $5,000.00, or both.
(2) For a second or subsequent offense, be imprisoned for not more than five years or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both.
(c) It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant did not have the capability or means of committing the specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who was a subject thereof. The foregoing shall not impair a defendant’s right to assert a defense based upon insanity or diminished capacity.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict prosecution under any other applicable laws. (Added 2001, No. 137 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 76A - Domestic Terrorism › § 3521. Domestic Terrorism

§ 3521. Domestic Terrorism
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Domestic terrorism” means engaging in or taking a substantial step to commit a violation of the criminal laws of this State with the intent to:
(A) cause death or serious bodily injury to multiple persons; or
(B) threaten any civilian population with mass destruction, mass killings, or kidnapping.
(2) “Serious bodily injury” shall have the same meaning as in section 1021 of this title.
(3) “Substantial step” means conduct that is strongly corroborative of the actor’s intent to complete the commission of the offense.
(b) A person who willfully engages in an act of domestic terrorism shall be imprisoned for not more than 20 years or fined not more than $50,000.00, or both.
(c) It shall be an affirmative defense to a charge under this section that the actor abandoned the actor’s effort to commit the crime or otherwise prevented its commission under circumstances manifesting a complete and voluntary renunciation of the actor’s criminal purpose. (Added 2023, No. 46, § 20, eff. June 5, 2023.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 77 - Trees and Plants › § 3601. Definitions

§ 3601. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Diameter breast height” or “DBH” means the diameter of a standing tree at four and one-half feet from the ground.
(2) “Harvest” means the cutting, felling, or removal of timber.
(3) “Harvest unit” means the area of land from which timber will be harvested or the area of land on which timber stand improvement will occur.
(4) “Harvester” means a person, firm, company, corporation, or other legal entity that harvests timber.
(5) “Landowner” means the person, firm, company, corporation, or other legal entity that owns or controls the land or owns or controls the right to harvest timber on the land.
(6) “Landowner’s agent” means a person, firm, company, corporation, or other legal entity representing the landowner in a timber sale, timber harvest, or land management.
(7) “Stump diameter” means the diameter of a tree stump remaining after cutting, felling, or destruction.
(8) “Forest products” means logs, pulpwood, veneer, bolt wood, wood chips, stud wood, poles, pilings, biomass, fuel wood, or bark.
(9) “Timber” means:
(A) trees of every size, nature, kind, and description; and
(B) sprouts from which trees may grow, seedlings, saplings, bushes, or shrubs that have been planted or cultivated by a person who owns or controls the property where they are located. (Added 2009, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 2015, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 77 - Trees and Plants › § 3602. Valuation of trees or timber

§ 3602. Valuation of trees or timber
Any person who is entitled to damages pursuant to section 3606 of this title or who is entitled to restitution for a violation of section 3606a of this title may provide an assessment of the value, based upon the kind, condition, location, and use of the timber cut down, destroyed, removed, injured, damaged, or carried away or, in the alternative, may assess the value of the timber as follows:
(1) if a tree is no more than six inches in stump diameter or DBH, $50.00;
(2) if a tree is more than six inches and not more than ten inches in stump diameter or DBH, $100.00;
(3) if a tree is more than 10 inches and not more than 14 inches in stump diameter or DBH, $300.00;
(4) if a tree is more than 14 inches and not more than 18 inches in stump diameter or DBH, $750.00;
(5) if a tree is more than 18 inches and not more than 22 inches in stump diameter or DBH, $1,500.00;
(6) if a tree is greater than 22 inches in stump diameter or DBH, $2,000.00;
(7) for a bush or shrub, $50.00. (Added 2009, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 2015, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 77 - Trees and Plants › § 3603. Marking harvest units

§ 3603. Marking harvest units
As a best management practice, a landowner who authorizes timber harvesting or who in fact harvests timber should clearly and accurately mark the harvest unit with visible means. (Added 2009, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 2015, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 77 - Trees and Plants › § 3604. Exemptions

§ 3604. Exemptions
The cutting, felling, or destruction of a tree or the harvest of timber by the following shall not be subject to a civil action under section 3606 of this title or a criminal penalty under section 3606a of this title:
(1) The Agency of Transportation, or its representatives, conducting vegetation management.
(2) A municipality conducting brush removal subject to the requirements of 19 V.S.A. § 904.
(3) A utility conducting vegetation management within the boundaries of the utility’s established right-of-way.
(4) [Repealed.]
(5) A railroad conducting vegetation management.
(6) A licensed surveyor establishing boundaries between abutting parcels under 27 V.S.A. § 4. (Added 2009, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 2015, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 77 - Trees and Plants › § 3606. Trespass; civil action

§ 3606. Trespass; civil action
(a) In addition to any other civil liability or criminal penalty allowed by law, if a person cuts down, fells, destroys, removes, injures, damages, or carries away any timber placed or growing for any use or purpose whatsoever, or forest products standing, lying, or growing belonging to another person, without permission from the owner of the timber or forest product, or cuts out, alters, or defaces the mark of a log or other valuable forest product, the party injured may recover of such person, in an action on this statute, treble damages for the value of the timber or forest product, and any damage caused to the land or improvements thereon as a result of such action. The injured party or landowner may rely on an assessment of damages based on the kind, condition, location, and use of the timber or forest product by the injured party or landowner, or alternatively, may elect to rely on the values established under section 3602 of this title.
(b) If the defendant in an action brought pursuant to subsection (a) of this section establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that he or she had good reason to believe that the timber or forest products belonged to him or her, or that he or she had a legal right to perform the acts complained of, the plaintiff shall recover single damages only, with costs.
(c) As used in this section, “damages” shall include any damage caused to the land or improvements thereon as a result of a person cutting, felling, destroying, removing, injuring, damaging, or carrying away timber or forest products without the permission of the owner of the property on which the timber stands. (Amended 1959, No. 61, eff. March 26, 1959; amended 2009, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2015, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 77 - Trees and Plants › § 3606a. Trespass; criminal penalty

§ 3606a. Trespass; criminal penalty
(a) No person shall knowingly or recklessly:
(1) cut down, fell, destroy, remove, injure, damage, or carry away any timber or forest product placed or growing for any use or purpose whatsoever, or timber or forest product lying or growing belonging to another person, without permission from the owner of the timber or forest product; or
(2) deface the mark of a log, forest product, or other valuable timber in a river or other place.
(b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall:
(1) for a first offense, be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than $20,000.00, or both; or
(2) for a second or subsequent offense, be imprisoned not more than two years or fined not more than $50,000.00, or both. (Added 2015, No. 106 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 77 - Trees and Plants › § 3609. Transportation of trees; evidence

§ 3609. Transportation of trees; evidence
A person found transporting upon a public highway one or more pine, spruce, hemlock, cedar, or other evergreen trees, under such condition or circumstances as to reasonably justify any police officer or a person from whom trees of such type have been stolen, or his or her employees, to believe that such trees have been stolen or taken without the consent of the owner, such police officer, person, or his or her employees, or any of them, may stop the person transporting such trees and interrogate such person as to where and from whom he or she obtained such trees and ask such person to produce a bill of sale or a writing showing his or her rightful possession of such trees. If the person interrogated fails to produce a bill of sale or writing showing his or her rightful possession of such trees or refuses to answer such interrogations, or if his or her answers to such interrogations are false, it shall be prima facie evidence that such person has stolen such trees and upon conviction for such an offense he or she shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or fined not more than $300.00, or both. (Amended 1959, No. 199.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3701. Unlawful mischief

§ 3701. Unlawful mischief
(a) A person who, with intent to damage property, and having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such a right, does any damage to any property which is valued in an amount exceeding $1,000.00 shall be imprisoned for not more than five years or fined not more than $5,000.00, or both.
(b) A person who, with intent to damage property, and having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such a right, does any damage to any property which is valued in an amount exceeding $250.00 shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both.
(c) A person who, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such a right, intentionally does any damage to property of any value not exceeding $250.00 shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or fined not more than $500.00, or both.
(d) A person who, with intent to damage property, and having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such a right, does any damage to any property by means of an explosive shall be imprisoned for not more than five years or fined not more than $5,000.00, or both.
(e) For the purposes of this section “property” means real or personal property.
(f) A person who suffers damages as a result of a violation of this section may recover those damages together with reasonable attorney’s fees in a civil action under this section. (Amended 1971, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. April 5, 1972.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3705. Unlawful trespass

§ 3705. Unlawful trespass
(a)(1) A person shall be imprisoned for not more than three months or fined not more than $500.00, or both, if, without legal authority or the consent of the person in lawful possession, he or she enters or remains on any land or in any place as to which notice against trespass is given by:
(A) actual communication by the person in lawful possession or his or her agent or by a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of such person or his or her agent;
(B) signs or placards so designed and situated as to give reasonable notice; or
(C) in the case of abandoned property:
(i) signs or placards, posted by the owner, the owner’s agent, or a law enforcement officer, and so designed and situated as to give reasonable notice; or
(ii) actual communication by a law enforcement officer.
(2) As used in this subsection, “abandoned property” means:
(A) real property on which there is a vacant structure that for the previous 60 days has been continuously unoccupied by a person with the legal right to occupy it and with respect to which the municipality has by first-class mail to the owner’s last known address provided the owner with notice and an opportunity to be heard; and
(i) property taxes have been delinquent for six months or more; or
(ii) one or more utility services have been disconnected; or
(B) a railroad car that for the previous 60 days has been unmoved and unoccupied by a person with the legal right to occupy it.
(b) Prosecutions for offenses under subsection (a) of this section shall be commenced within 60 days following the commission of the offense and not thereafter.
(c) A person who enters a building other than a residence, whose access is normally locked, whether or not the access is actually locked, or a residence in violation of an order of any court of competent jurisdiction in this State shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $500.00, or both.
(d) A person who enters a dwelling house, whether or not a person is actually present, knowing that he or she is not licensed or privileged to do so shall be imprisoned for not more than three years or fined not more than $2,000.00, or both.
(e) A law enforcement officer shall not be prosecuted under subsection (a) of this section if he or she is authorized to serve civil or criminal process, including citations, summons, subpoenas, warrants, and other court orders, and the scope of his or her entrance onto the land or place of another is no more than necessary to effectuate the service of process. (Added 1969, No. 156 (Adj. Sess.); amended 1971, No. 229 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1973, No. 109, § 7; 1979, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 17, 23; 2013, No. 49, § 3; 2013, No. 75, § 21.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3729. Fire protection apparatus

§ 3729. Fire protection apparatus
A person who without lawful authority tampers or interferes with a main, hydrant, gate, or other fire protection apparatus of a municipal water system or with the fire protection apparatus of a private water system used for municipal purposes shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3732. Unauthorized removal of books from library

§ 3732. Unauthorized removal of books from library
A person who removes from a free public library, or a free town, village, or traveling library, a book, paper, magazine, document, or other reading matter, or an art book, picture, print, plate, or other art work, kept in such library for public use or circulation, without the consent of the librarian or other person in charge of such library, shall be fined not more than $50.00 for each offense, half to the use of the library from which the same was so removed, and the other half to the use of the treasury liable for the costs of prosecution.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3733. Mills, dams or bridges

§ 3733. Mills, dams or bridges
A person who willfully and maliciously injures, removes, or opens a dam, reservoir, gate, or flume or injures or removes the wheels, mill gear, or machinery of a water mill, or injures, removes, or destroys a public or toll bridge, shall be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $500.00, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3738. Obstruction and use of private roads and lands by motor vehicle

§ 3738. Obstruction and use of private roads and lands by motor vehicle
A person who, by use of a motor vehicle as defined in 23 V.S.A. § 4:
(1) obstructs a private driveway, barway, or gateway; or
(2) travels over a private road that is so marked, or travels over other private lands; or
(3) enters on private lands for the purpose of camping; without the permission of the owner or occupant shall be fined not more than $500.00. (Added 1967, No. 173; amended 1971, No. 95, § 1, eff. April 22, 1971.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3739. Operation of vehicles on state owned land

§ 3739. Operation of vehicles on state owned land
(a) A person who operates a motor vehicle, as defined in 23 V.S.A. § 4, on any land that is owned or held by the State:
(1) except in places or on trails specifically designated and marked by the Secretary of Natural Resources; or
(2) contrary to any rule governing the use of the place or trail shall be fined not more than $500.00. For the purposes of this section “land owned or held by the State” does not include a highway as defined in 23 V.S.A. § 4.
(b) The Secretary of Natural Resources may by rule designate a place or trail for use by motor vehicles when it finds that natural, fish and wildlife, and other recreational activities or aesthetic values will not be substantially adversely affected. The Secretary may by rule specify under which weather and trail conditions or at which times or hours of the day designated trails or places may not be used. (Added 1971, No. 95, § 2, eff. April 22, 1971; amended 1987, No. 76, § 18.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3740. Damage to State land

§ 3740. Damage to State land
A person who operates a motor vehicle, as defined in 23 V.S.A. § 4, on any land, that is owned or held by the State, in such a manner as to purposely and maliciously cause injury, damage, erosion or waste to the land shall be fined not more than $500.00. For the purposes of this section “land” does not include a highway as defined in 23 V.S.A. § 4. (Added 1971, No. 95, § 3, eff. April 22, 1971.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3761. Unauthorized removal of human remains

§ 3761. Unauthorized removal of human remains
A person who, not being authorized by law, intentionally excavates, disinters, removes, or carries away a human body, or the remains thereof, interred or entombed in this State or intentionally excavates, disinters, removes, or carries away an object interred or entombed with a human body in this State, or knowingly aids in such excavation, disinterment, removal, or carrying away, or is accessory thereto, shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both. (Amended 1989, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3762. Search for concealed bodies

§ 3762. Search for concealed bodies
Upon the complaint and oath of a person made to him or her in writing that the remains of a dead person have been disinterred and removed and that the complainant has reason to believe that the remains of such dead person are secreted in a dwelling house or other building, a district judge shall issue a warrant, directed to any sheriff or constable, commanding him or her to make search in such place for such dead person. The officer serving such process shall not be liable for executing such warrant, whether the body of such dead person is found or not. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, operative February 1, 1967; 1973, No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), § 48, eff. April 9, 1974.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3763. Exception

§ 3763. Exception
Section 3762 of this title shall not prevent a surgeon or physician from having in his or her possession a dead human subject for anatomical investigation and instruction of students, if such subject was obtained without violating the law of the State.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3764. Cemeteries and monuments—Grave markers and historical tablets

§ 3764. Cemeteries and monuments—Grave markers and historical tablets
A person shall not intentionally and without right or authority excavate, steal, remove, injure, or destroy, or procure or cause to be excavated, stolen, removed, injured, or destroyed, a gravestone or monument erected to the memory of a deceased person, or erected and intended for such use, or a grave, tomb, or burial site, or portion thereof, in which the body or remains of a deceased person is interred, or that is intended for the interment of a deceased person, or a monument, tablet, or marker erected for the commemoration of some historical event or place by a historical or patriotic association or society on land on which such association or society has a right to erect the same. (Amended 1989, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3766. Grave markers and ornaments

§ 3766. Grave markers and ornaments
(a) A person shall not steal, or cause to be stolen, or intentionally and without lawful authority remove, break down, injure, or destroy, or cause to be removed, broken down, injured, or destroyed, an ornament, token, flag holder, or emblem used to decorate, mark, or distinguish the grave or tomb of a deceased person.
(b) A person shall not buy, sell, or barter, or cause to be bought, sold, or bartered, an ornament, token, flag holder, or emblem that has been used to decorate, mark, or distinguish the grave or tomb of a deceased person. In a prosecution under this subsection, it shall be an affirmative defense, to be proven by a preponderance of the evidence, that the person did not gain possession of the ornament, token, flag holder, or emblem by unlawful means.
(c) A person shall not steal or cause to be stolen, or intentionally and without lawful authority remove, break down, injure, or destroy, or cause to be removed, broken down, injured, or destroyed, flowers, trees, or any other plant matter used to decorate, mark, or distinguish any cemetery property, including the grave or tomb of a deceased person. (Amended 1989, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2001, No. 99 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 8, 2002.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3767. Penalties

§ 3767. Penalties
(a) A person who violates a provision of sections 3764-3766 of this title shall, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $5,000.00, or both.
(b) A person who violates subsection 3766(c) of this title shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than $500.00, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23; 1989, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2001, No. 99 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 8, 2002.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3769. Civil action

§ 3769. Civil action
A person who violates a provision of sections 3764-3766 of this title, shall be further liable in a civil action on this statute, in which the plaintiff may recover damages and reasonable attorney’s fees. Such action may be brought in the name of the owner of the property so injured, or in the name of the town in which such burial ground is situated, or in the name of the commissioners, or in the name of the association or corporation that holds lawful possession of such burial ground at the time such damage is committed, or, if the property injured is a gravestone or monument erected to the memory of a deceased person or a grave, tomb, or burial site in which the body or remains of a deceased person is interred, in the name of the surviving heirs or descendants of such deceased person, jointly, or in the name of one or more of them for the benefit of all, or in the name of the historical or patriotic association or society erecting such monument, tablet, or marker. (Amended 1989, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3771. Disturbing a funeral service

§ 3771. Disturbing a funeral service
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Funeral service” means the ceremonies, rituals, and memorial services held at a church, mortuary, cemetery, or home in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person.
(2) “Picketing” means a protest, demonstration, or other similar activity directed at a funeral service.
(b) No person shall disturb or attempt to disturb a funeral service by engaging in picketing within 100 feet of the service within one hour prior to and two hours following the publicly announced time of the commencement of the service.
(c) A person who violates this section shall be imprisoned not more than 30 days or fined not more than $500.00, or both. (Added 2005, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), § 19, eff. May 20, 2006.)
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3781. Tapping gas pipes with intent to defraud

§ 3781. Tapping gas pipes with intent to defraud
A person who taps gas pipes with intent to take gas therefrom, or who connects pipes with such gas pipes so that gas may be used without passing through the meters for measurement, or who knowingly burns gas without measurement by gas meters, without the consent of the owner, shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than $100.00, or both. The owner of the gas may recover of the person so unlawfully tapping or connecting such pipes or using gas, the actual damages, with costs, in a civil action on this statute.
2023 Vermont Statutes › Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Chapter 81 - Trespass and Malicious Injuries to Property › § 3782. Tapping electric lines; injuries to electric plants

§ 3782. Tapping electric lines; injuries to electric plants
A person who willfully commits or causes to be committed an act with intent to injure a machine, apparatus, or structure appertaining to the works of a person, firm, association, or corporation engaged in manufacturing, selling, or distributing electrical energy in this State, or whereby such works may be stopped, obstructed, or injured, or who taps an electrical line of a person, firm, association, or corporation so that electricity can be taken therefrom, or knowingly uses electricity taken from such line without the consent of such person, firm, association, or corporation, shall be imprisoned not more than two years or fined not more than $300.00, or both. Such person shall also be liable to such person, firm, association, or corporation or to anyone injured for actual damages, with full costs, in a civil action on this statute.