Vermont Attorney General Opinions
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When a Vermont sheriff's department is sued and the county-purchased liability policy has a $10,000 deductible, who pays the deductible?
The county. 24 V.S.A. § 73 obligated the county to provide liability insurance for the sheriff and deputies, and the AG concluded that the deductible was an operating cost of the sheriff's department …
After Vermont passed its 2000 fingerprinting law, did liquor control investigators still get access to Criminal Information Center records, or were they suddenly cut off because their division didn't spend half its budget on criminal justice?
Yes, they still got access. AG Sorrell's office concluded that the new statute's term 'criminal justice agency' should not be read so literally as to cut off police agencies that the legislature had l…
Could a Vermont sheriff charge a service-of-process fee for finding the right address or otherwise locating someone, even if no service was actually made?
No. The fees in 32 V.S.A. § 1591(1) were payable only on presentation of a return of service. The activity that triggered the flat fee was the actual service of process, not the preparatory work of lo…
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Attorney general opinions in Vermont are written by the Vermont Attorney General's office in response to questions from state agencies, legislators, and prosecutors. They are not binding like court decisions, but courts and agencies treat them as persuasive guidance on how state law applies. Every opinion above has a plain-English question and short answer, plus a link to the full original text.