Title 32, Title 32: Taxation and Finance

§ 1010. Members of certain boards (a) Except for those members serving ex officio or otherwise regularly employed by the State, the members of the following boards shall be entitled to receive per diem compensation: (1) Board of Bar Examiners (2) Board of Libraries (3) Vermont Mi…

§ 1012. Public Utility Commission The Chair of the Public Utility Commission shall be entitled to an annual salary that is the same annual salary to which each Superior Court judge is entitled. The other members of the Public Utility Commission, each of whom shall serve on a part…

§ 1018. Chair and Executive Secretary of Transportation Board (a) The annual salary of the Chair of the Transportation Board shall be fixed by the Governor. (b) The Transportation Board shall have the authority to hire an Executive Secretary to the Board, who shall be an exempt e…

§ 1020. Salary adjustment; approval of Governor (a) Compensation to be paid any officer or employee within the Executive Branch of State government shall be determined at the time the officer or employee is hired by the Governor or such person as the Governor shall designate, sub…

§ 1051. Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate; compensation and expense reimbursement (a) The Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall be entitled to receive annual compensation of $10,080.00 for the 2005 Biennial Session and t…

§ 1052. Members of the General Assembly; compensation and expense reimbursement (a)(1) Each member of the General Assembly, other than the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, is entitled to a weekly salary of $589.00 for the 2005 Biennial Session and…

§ 1053. Officers of the General Assembly The Clerk of the House, the First Assistant Clerk of the House, the Second Assistant Clerk of the House, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Assistant Secretary of the Senate shall be entitled to their necessary expenses and salaries as d…

§ 1053a. Legislative pages Legislative pages shall be entitled to a weekly compensation of $130.00 effective July 8, 2007, and a weekly expense allowance of $60.00 for those who commute and $95.00 for those who rent a room in the Montpelier area. Pages will be paid in the same ma…

§ 1061. Journals of the General Assembly After the close of the session of the General Assembly, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall each be entitled for each day for services rendered to one-fifth of the weekly salary to which each res…

§ 1101. Board of Medical Practice Each member of the State Board of Medical Practice shall receive $15.00 a day. The Secretary of the Board shall annually receive $400.00 additional. (Amended 1963, No. 193, § 21, eff. June 28, 1963.)

§ 1109. Expenses for Board members Each member of the boards mentioned in sections 1101-1108 of this title, shall be paid his or her reasonable and necessary expenses to be approved by the Chair of the Board.

§ 1111. Exemption from licensing renewal fees; persons 80 years of age or older Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, licensees who are 80 years of age or older shall be exempt from payment of a renewal fee required under any provision of Title 26 or any of the fo…

§ 1141. Assistant judges (a)(1) Each assistant judge of the Superior Court shall be entitled to receive compensation in the amount of $224.47 a day as of July 14, 2024 and $236.59 a day as of July 13, 2025 for time spent in the performance of official duties and necessary expense…

§ 1142. Probate judges (a) The Probate judges in the several Probate Districts shall be entitled to receive the following annual salaries, which shall be paid by the State in lieu of all fees or other compensation: (b) Probate judges shall be entitled to be paid by the State for …

§ 1143. Compensation of appointees Persons acting under the authority of the Probate Division of the Superior Court shall be paid as follows: (1) for each day’s attendance by executor, administrator, trustee, agent, or guardian, on the business of their appointment, $4.00; (2) fo…

§ 1145. Illegal fees A judge or register of Probate who directly or indirectly accepts or receives, under color of his or her office, money or other valuable thing, by way of fees, remuneration, or compensation for the performance of an act as such judge or register, except as pr…

§ 1147. Courtroom expenses The expense of providing a suitable courtroom, without the county courthouse, including rent, heat, and light, with office furniture for the use of the court, shall be paid by the State if the contract for the same is approved by the Commissioner of Bui…

§ 1181a. Passport fees; retention by clerk Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 502 and 503 of this title, a county clerk may retain for the benefit of the county the execution fee paid pursuant to the issuance of a passport. (Added 1977, No. 247 (Adj. Sess.), § 196; amende…

§ 1182. Sheriffs (a) The sheriffs of all counties except Chittenden shall be entitled to receive salaries in the amount of $104,010.00 as of July 14, 2024 and $109,627.00 as of July 13, 2025. The Sheriff of Chittenden County shall be entitled to an annual salary in the amount of …

§ 1183. State’s attorneys (a) The State’s Attorneys shall be entitled to receive annual salaries as follows: (b) In settlement of their accounts, the Commissioner of Finance and Management shall allow the State’s Attorneys the expense of printing briefs in cases in which the Stat…

§ 1185. Office expenses (a) In settlement of their accounts, the Commissioner of Finance and Management shall allow State’s Attorneys their expenses for secretarial assistance; office expenses, including rent, supplies, equipment, maintenance, legal forms and stationery, telephon…

§ 1221. Electors of President and Vice President Electors of President and Vice President shall receive for their services, in attending their meetings, the sum of $10.00 and their actual expenses.

§ 1224. Town clerks Town clerks shall receive such salaries as the town may vote, to be paid by their respective towns each year. A town may vote a salary in addition to fees retained under section 1401 of this title or a salary in lieu of fees. If a town votes a salary in lieu o…

§ 1225. Town road commissioner The compensation of a town road commissioner shall be fixed by the selectboard. (Amended 1981, No. 87, § 4; 2017, No. 130 (Adj. Sess.), § 18.)

§ 1227. Appraisers for unorganized towns and gores An appraiser for unorganized towns and gores shall receive $50.00 a day and necessary expenses for time actually spent in the performance of his or her duties. (Amended 1965, No. 138, § 2; 1985, No. 264 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)

§ 1229. Supervisors for unorganized towns and gores A supervisor for unorganized towns and gores shall receive $15.00 a day for time actually spent in the performance of his or her duties, except for his or her services as collector of taxes. On all taxes collected after the expi…

§ 1261. Personal expenses when away from home (a) Unless otherwise provided, all persons in the employ of the State when away from home and office on official duties shall be reimbursed for expenses necessarily incurred for travel, subsistence, postage, telephone, telegraph, expr…

§ 1266. Clerical assistance Each department, board, or commission, unless otherwise specifically provided, is empowered to employ assistance, clerical or otherwise, as the Governor deems necessary and, subject to the Governor’s approval, to fix the compensation to be paid for the…

§ 1267. Mileage; reimbursement Reimbursement for mileage shall be a subject of collective bargaining as defined in 3 V.S.A. § 904(a). (Added 1975, No. 118, § 97; amended 1977, No. 109, § 32, eff. July 1, 1979.)

§ 1271. Fair notice Employees as defined by subsection 1020(a) of this title who fill permanent positions, have been continuously employed more than six months, and whose employment is otherwise in good standing shall be provided with fair notice of separation from a position fro…

§ 1281. Adjustments to compensation and benefits of Executive and Judicial Branch employees (a) The process described in this section shall apply to any requests for increased funding that arise during a biennium when the State and the collective bargaining representative for Sta…

§ 1282. Officer compensation; voluntary decrease An officer whose compensation is established by this chapter may choose to be compensated at a lower rate. (Added 2015, No. 58, § B.1108.)