Title 22, Libraries, History, and Information Technology

§ 633. Appropriation by municipality A town, city, or incorporated village voting to instruct its Board of Library Trustees to make application to the State Librarian under section 631 of this title shall annually appropriate for the maintenance of its free public library a sum n…

§ 634. Aid to free public libraries The State Librarian may assist free public or other nonprofit libraries that formulate and implement plans for the systematic and effective coordination of libraries and library services. Grants may be made in accordance with standards of the s…

§ 635. Requirements If the Board of Trustees of a free public library, any part of whose books has been paid for with State funds, fails to provide for the safety and public usefulness of such books or fails to pay the annual appropriation in accordance with section 633 of this t…

§ 701. Definitions For the purposes of this chapter: (1) “Council” means the Vermont Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. (2) [Repealed.] (3) “Division” means the Division for Historic Preservation. (4) “Field investigations” means the study of the traces of human culture a…

§ 721. Creation of Division The Division for Historic Preservation is created under 3 V.S.A. § 2473 to coordinate historic preservation activities on behalf of the State. (Added 1975, No. 109, § 4; amended 1995, No. 190 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)

§ 722. State Historic Preservation Officer The Secretary shall nominate and the Governor shall appoint a State Historic Preservation Officer, with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall fulfill the obligations and requirements of a State Historic Preservation Officer as …

§ 723. Duties and powers of Division and State Historic Preservation Officer (a) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall, through the administration of the Division, and where required by section 742 of this title, with the approval of the Advisory Council on Historic Prese…

§ 724. Historic preservation special funds (a) Historic preservation special funds. The Historic Sites Operations Special Fund is established pursuant to 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5 to be used by the Division for Historic Preservation to carry out the provisions of subdivis…

§ 725. Acceptance and solicitation of funds or gifts for historic sites and Vermont Archaeology Heritage Center (a) Notwithstanding 3 V.S.A. § 1203g and with the approval of the Secretary of Administration, the State Historic Preservation Officer may accept and solicit grants, gi…

§ 741. Creation of Advisory Council (a) There is established the Vermont Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The Council shall consist of seven members, appointed by the Governor, at least four of whom shall fulfill the professional requirements of the National Historic Pr…

§ 742. Duties and powers of the Council (a) The Council shall: (1) Approve nominations to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. (2) Review and approve the State survey of historic properties undertaken in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. (3) Review a…

§ 743. Cooperation of agencies An agency, department, division, or commission shall: (1) Consult the Vermont Advisory Council on Historic Preservation before demolishing, altering, or transferring any property that is potentially of historical, architectural, archaeological, or c…

§ 761. State Archaeologist; survey; protection of archaeological sites (a) The State Historic Preservation Officer shall employ a State Archaeologist through the classified service who shall conduct and maintain a survey of sites of archaeological and anthropological specimens lo…

§ 762. Field investigation The State reserves to itself the exclusive right of field investigation on sites owned or controlled by the State in order to protect and preserve archaeological and scientific information, matter, and objects. All information and objects deriving from …

§ 763. Designation of archaeological sites The State Archaeologist, with the approval of the State Historic Preservation Officer, may publicly designate an archaeological site of significance to the scientific study or public representation of the State’s historical, prehistorica…

§ 764. Permits for exploration The State Historic Preservation Officer, with the advice of the State Archaeologist, may issue permits for exploration and field investigations to be undertaken on State lands or within the boundaries of designated State archaeological landmarks to …

§ 765. Transfer of State property When transferring real property under its jurisdiction that contains significant archaeological, aboriginal, or other anthropological resources, the State, may, upon the recommendation of the State Historic Preservation Officer, with the advice o…

§ 766. Reservation of lands to be sold Upon written notice to the head of a State agency administering State lands, given by the State Historic Preservation Officer, with the advice of the State Archaeologist, the agency head shall reserve from sale any State lands, including lan…

§ 767. Cooperation between agencies All State agencies, departments, institutions, and commissions, as well as all municipalities, shall cooperate fully with the State Archaeologist in the preservation, protection, excavation, and evaluation of specimens and sites; and to that en…

§ 781. Rules The custodian of underwater historic properties shall be the Division, which shall administer the preservation and protection of these properties in accordance with this chapter. The Division may prescribe such rules as are necessary to preserve, protect, and recover…

§ 782. Issuance of permits Any qualified person desiring to conduct any type of exploration or recovery operations, in the course of which any underwater historic property or part thereof may be removed, displaced, or destroyed, shall first make application to the State Historic …

§ 791. Penalty A person who conducts field investigation activities on or under any land owned or controlled by the State or within the boundaries of any designated State archaeological landmark, without first obtaining a permit therefor from the State Historic Preservation Offic…

§ 950. Purpose The purpose of the Vermont web portal is to increase, at no cost to the taxpayer, the ease of accessing needed information. (Added 2005, No. 203 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 30, 2006.)

§ 951. Definitions As used in this chapter: (1) “Public information” means any State data that are included within the information deemed to be public pursuant to the Public Records Act and other provisions of law providing for release of information to the public at large or to …

§ 952. Vermont web portal; Vermont Web Portal Board; membership (a) There is created the Vermont web portal that shall be governed by a Board consisting of 12 members as follows: (1) the Secretary of Digital Services or designee; (2) the Secretary of State or designee; (3) the Se…

§ 953. Vermont Web Portal Board; duties (a) The Board shall: (1) Oversee the development of a self-funded web portal and establish charges for the services it provides. (2) Oversee development, implementation, and promotion, in cooperation with the Agency of Digital Services, of …