Title 13, Crimes and Criminal Procedure

§ 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…

§ 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 State…

§ 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 Unite…

§ 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 solic…

§ 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 …

§ 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 o…

§ 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 wa…

§ 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.

§ 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 d…

§ 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 …

§ 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…

§ 3442. Penalties A person who violates any order made under sections 3440 and 3441 of this title shall be imprisoned not more than 10 days or fined not more than $50.00, or both.

§ 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…

§ 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 convi…

§ 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 th…

§ 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 f…

§ 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 us…

§ 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 bui…

§ 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…

§ 3501. Definitions (a) As used in this chapter: (1) “Chemical warfare agents” means: (A) Any weaponized toxic or poisonous chemical, including the following agents or any analog of the following agents: (i) Nerve agents, including Tabun (GA), Sarin (GB), Soman (GD), GF, and VX. …

§ 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…

§ 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 …

§ 3504. Reporting illnesses, diseases, injuries, and deaths associated with weapons of mass destruction (a)(1) Illness, disease, injury, or death. A health care provider shall report all cases of persons who exhibit any illness, disease, injury, or death identified by the Departm…

§ 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) threat…

§ 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…

§ 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…

§ 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. Ses…

§ 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 re…

§ 3605. Financial surety required for continued timber harvesting activities (a) Under one or more of the following circumstances, a person shall not engage in timber harvesting activities for compensation unless the person satisfies the conditions of subsection (b) of this secti…

§ 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 st…

§ 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 belon…

§ 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 ty…

§ 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 n…

§ 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, the person enters or remains on any land or in any place as to whic…

§ 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 sha…

§ 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 li…

§ 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…