Title 13, Title 13: Crimes and Criminal Procedure

§ 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 imprison…

§ 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 l…

§ 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…

§ 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.…

§ 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 carrie…

§ 3761a. Abuse of the dead body of a person (a) No person shall, knowingly without legal authorization, intentionally burn, mutilate, disfigure, dismember, or destroy the dead body of a person. (b) No person shall violate subsection (a) of this section for the purpose of conceali…

§ 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 dwel…

§ 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.

§ 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…

§ 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 us…

§ 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) …

§ 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…

§ 3770. Use of damages recovered Such damages, when recovered by a town, association, society, corporation, or by commissioners, shall be expended under the direction of the party recovering the same for the benefit of the property injured.

§ 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,…

§ 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 …

§ 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, …

§ 3784. Interfering with meters A person, other than an authorized agent or employee acting for the owner, manufacturer, or operator thereof, who maliciously opens, closes, breaks into, or in any manner adjusts or interferes with a meter, or other regulating or measuring device o…

§ 3785. Injuring lights in streets and public buildings A person who willfully and maliciously breaks the glass about a street lamp or gaslight, or a lamp or gaslight in the grounds about a public building, or, without authority, lights such a lamp or gaslight or extinguishes the…

§ 3786. Tapping cable television systems; damage to equipment A person who willfully or maliciously damages, or causes to be damaged, any wire, cable, conduit, apparatus, or equipment of a company operating a cable television system, as defined in 30 V.S.A. § 501, or who commits …

§ 3801. Definitions As used in this section: (1) “Party line” means a subscribers’ line telephone circuit, consisting of two or more main telephone stations connected therewith, each station with a distinctive ring or telephone number. (2) “Emergency” means a situation in which p…

§ 3802. Refusal to surrender line in an emergency A person shall not willfully refuse to surrender the use of a party line to another person for the purpose of permitting such other person to report a fire or summon police, medical or other aid in case of emergency.

§ 3803. Declaring emergency falsely A person shall not request the use of a party line on pretext that an emergency exists, knowing that an emergency does not exist.

§ 3804. Notice in telephone directories Every telephone directory hereafter distributed to the members of the general public shall contain a copy of this subchapter, printed in type which is no smaller than eight-point type and is headed by the word “warning” in larger and bold-f…

§ 3805. Penalties A person who violates this subchapter shall be fined not more than $300.00 or imprisoned for not more than one month, or both.

§ 3831. Cutting ice and not fencing hole A person who takes ice from water over which people are accustomed to pass and does not place around the opening thereby made in the ice suitable guards to prevent a person, team, or vehicle from falling into such hole or opening shall be …

§ 3833. Unlawful taking of tangible personal property; penalty A person who, without the consent of the owner, takes and carries away or causes to be taken and carried away any tangible personal property with the intent of depriving the owner temporarily of the lawful possession …

§ 3834. Removal of surveying monuments A person who knowingly removes or alters monuments marking the boundary of lands or knowingly defaces, alters, or removes marks upon any tree, post, or stake that is a monument designating a point, course, or line in the boundary of a parcel…

§ 3835. Surveillance devices; placement on private property without consent of owner; civil penalty (a) A person shall not place a camera or other surveillance device on any privately owned real property with the intent to conduct surveillance on a person or the property unless t…