Title 13, Title 13: Crimes and Criminal Procedure

§ 1609. Record of sale (a) A person may not give, transfer, or sell an explosive to another unless the purchaser exhibits a valid license issued under 20 V.S.A. chapter 177, subchapter 2, division 2. (b) A person who gives, transfers, or sells an explosive to another shall record…

§ 1610. Purchase in contiguous states Any person holding a valid license under 20 V.S.A. chapter 177, subchapter 2, division 2 may purchase explosives in any state contiguous to this State and transport them into this State, provided that he or she furnishes a record of each purc…

§ 1611. Exemptions (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to the U.S. Armed Forces, the duly authorized militia of the State, the fire or police departments of this State, or to the State or any subdivision thereof. (b) Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to …

§ 1612. Placing a hoax device A person who willfully and maliciously puts, places, or installs a hoax device in any building, house, facility of public transport, vehicular conveyance, ship, boat, aircraft, dam or reservoir for storing water shall be imprisoned for not more than …

§ 1701. Definition and penalty A person who maliciously threatens to accuse another of a crime or offense, or with an injury to his or her person or property, with intent to extort money or other pecuniary advantage, or with intent to compel the person so threatened to do an act …

§ 1702. Criminal threatening (a) A person shall not by words or conduct knowingly: (1) threaten another person or a group of particular persons; and (2) as a result of the threat, place the other person in reasonable apprehension of death, serious bodily injury, or sexual assault…

§ 1751. False alarms to agencies of public safety (a) A person who willfully or knowingly gives, or aids or abets in giving, by any means any false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, official or volunteer, for dealing with emergencie…

§ 1752. Tampering with facilities A person who willfully or knowingly tampers with, interferes with, or impairs any public fire alarm apparatus, wire, or associated equipment shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both. (Added 1971, No…

§ 1753. False public alarms (a) A person who initiates or willfully circulates or transmits a report or warning of an impending bombing or other offense or catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false or baseless and that it is likely to cause evacuation of a building…

§ 1754. False reports to law enforcement authorities (a) A person who knowingly gives false information to any law enforcement officer with purpose to implicate another or to deflect an investigation from the person or another person shall be imprisoned for not more than one year…

§ 1801. Forgery and counterfeiting of papers, documents, etc A person who wittingly, falsely, and deceitfully makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits, or wittingly, falsely, or deceitfully causes to be made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or procures, aids, or counsels the mak…

§ 1802. Uttering forged or counterfeited instrument A person who utters and publishes as true a forged, altered, or counterfeited record, deed, instrument, or other writing mentioned in section 1801 of this title, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited, w…

§ 1803. Counterfeiting or altering peddler’s license A person who counterfeits a license to a peddler, or alters such license granted agreeably to the provisions of law, or utters and publishes as true a counterfeit or altered license, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.…

§ 1804. Counterfeiting paper money A person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits, or procures to be made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or aids or assists in making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting, a note, or imitation of, or purporting to be a note issue…

§ 1805. Counterfeiting scrip A person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits or procures to be made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or aids or assists in making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting, any scrip or imitation purporting to be scrip issued, under the …

§ 1806. Affixing false signature to obligation of corporation A person who, with intent to pass the same as true, fraudulently affixes to an instrument or writing purporting to be a note, draft, or other evidence of debt issued by a corporation, a fictitious or pretended signatur…

§ 1807. Making or repairing tools for counterfeit money A person who engraves, makes, or mends, or begins to engrave, make, or mend, a plate, block, or press, or other tool, instrument, or implement, or makes or provides paper or other material adapted and designed for forging or…

§ 1808. Joining parts of several bills or instruments A person who fraudulently unites different parts of several bank bills or other genuine instruments, so as to produce an additional bank bill or instrument, with intent to pass all of them as genuine, shall be imprisoned not m…

§ 1809. Counterfeiting coin A person who counterfeits gold or silver coin, current by law or usage in this State, or utters, passes, or gives in payment such counterfeit gold or silver coin, knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, with intent to injure or defraud a person, …

§ 1810. Making or repairing tools for counterfeiting coin A person who casts, stamps, engraves, makes, or mends, or knowingly has in his or her possession, a mould, pattern, die, puncheon, engine, press, or other tool or instrument adapted and designed for coining or making count…

§ 1811. Making imitation of gold or silver A person who makes, mixes, or changes a metal in imitation of gold or silver, or teaches a person the art of making, mixing, or changing a metal in imitation of gold or silver, with intent that the same shall be used for coining, shall b…

§ 1812. Officers to make seizures A district judge, sheriff, deputy sheriff, high bailiff, or constable within his or her jurisdiction shall seize forged, false, or counterfeited bank bills or notes or coin and the instruments or implements made or kept for the purpose of making,…

§ 1813. Making or uttering illicit money If a person or corporation within the State, without authority of law, emits and utters a bill of credit, or makes, signs, draws, or indorses a bond, promissory writing or note, bill of exchange, order, or other paper to be used as and in …

§ 1814. Selling or passing illicit money A person who sells, utters, or passes a bill of credit, bond, promissory writing or note, bill of exchange, order, or other paper, made, signed, drawn, or indorsed to be used as and in lieu of money, without authority from this State or so…

§ 1815. Description of paper forged or counterfeited In a complaint, information, or indictment for forgery or counterfeiting, or for uttering and publishing as true an instrument, document, or paper which may be the subject of the offense of forgery or counterfeiting, it shall b…

§ 1816. Possession or use of credit card skimming devices and re-encoders (a) A person who knowingly, wittingly, and with the intent to defraud possesses a scanning device, or who knowingly, wittingly, and with intent to defraud uses a scanning device to access, read, obtain, mem…

§ 1901. Definition The words flag, standard, color, ensign, or shield, as used in this subchapter, shall include any flag, standard, color, ensign, or shield, or copy, picture, or representation thereof, made of any substance or represented or produced thereon, and of any size, e…

§ 1902. Display A person shall not, in any manner, for exhibition or display: (1) Place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, color, ensign, or shield of the United States or of this State, …

§ 1903. Illegal acts A person shall not publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign, or shield.

§ 1904. Construction This subchapter shall not apply to any act permitted by the statutes of the United States, or of this State, or by the U.S. Army and Navy regulations, nor shall it apply to any printed or written document or production, stationery, ornament, picture, or jewel…

§ 1904a. Use of State Seal and Coat of Arms The State Seal and Coat of Arms may be used for commemorative medals or for public displays not connected with any advertising, provided that: (1) the use does not imply State endorsement or approval when none has been given; and (2) a …

§ 1905. Penalty A person who violates any provision of this subchapter shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both.

§ 1906. Uniform interpretation This subchapter shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose and to make uniform the laws of the states which enact it.

§ 2001. False personation A person who falsely personates or represents another, and in such assumed character receives money or other property intended to be delivered to the party so personated, with intent to convert the same to the person’s own use, shall be imprisoned not mo…

§ 2002. False pretenses or tokens A person who designedly by false pretenses or by privy or false token and with intent to defraud, obtains from another person money or other property, or a release or discharge of a debt or obligation, or the signature of a person to a written in…

§ 2003. False tokens described The use of a matured check, or other order for the payment of money, as a means of obtaining from another person money or other property, or a release or discharge of a debt or obligation, or the signature of a person to a written instrument the fal…

§ 2005. False advertising A person, firm, corporation, or association, or an agent or employee thereof, who, with intent to sell courses of instruction or to dispose of merchandise, real estate, securities, or service or to induce the public to enter into any obligations relating…

§ 2006. False statement as to financial ability A person shall not knowingly make to a person, company, or corporation, or to a commercial agency, a false statement in writing signed by himself, herself, or by his or her direction, with intent that it shall be relied upon, respec…

§ 2007. Receiving value upon false statement Knowing that a false statement in writing has been made respecting the financial condition or means or ability to pay of himself, herself, or other person in whom he or she is financially interested or for whom he or she is acting, a p…

§ 2008. False statement as to present validity of prior statement Knowing that a statement in writing has been made respecting the financial condition or means or ability to pay of himself, herself, or other person in whom he or she is financially interested or for whom he or she…

§ 2009. Penalties A person who violates a provision of sections 2006-2008 of this title shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both.

§ 2011. Fraudulent use of badges A person not entitled by the rules and regulations of the departments of the Grand Army of the Republic, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Sons of Veterans, Woman’s Relief Corps, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Re…

§ 2012. Misrepresenting livestock (a) A person shall not make false or fraudulent representations for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of registration of an animal in a herd register or other register of a club, association, society, company, or corporation. (b) A person sh…

§ 2013. Painting or disguising horses A person who knowingly and designedly for the purpose of competing for a purse or premium offered by an agricultural society, corporation, or association within the State, enters or drives a horse or horse kind painted or disguised, or who fo…

§ 2014. Transferring chattel without notice of lien A person who sells or disposes of personal property, or causes the same to be sold or disposed of by another, upon which there is a lien created by a previous attachment or conditional sale, or upon which he or she has previousl…

§ 2015. Transferring realty without notice of encumbrance A person who knowingly and with intent to defraud sells, mortgages, or bonds real estate upon which there is an existing encumbrance, and receives a portion of the consideration of such sale or conveyance, without notifyin…