Vermont Statutes Title 20 Sec. 27
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 20 Sec. 27
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Public Safety. See
- Emergency functions: include services provided by the Department of Public Safety, firefighting services, police services, sheriff's department services, medical and health services, rescue, engineering, emergency warning services, communications, evacuation of persons, emergency welfare services, protection of critical infrastructure, emergency transportation, temporary restoration of public utility services, other functions related to civilian protection, and all other activities necessary or incidental to the preparation for and carrying out of these functions. See
- Emergency management: means the preparation for and implementation of all emergency functions, other than the functions for which the U. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- State Police: means the sworn law enforcement officers who are employees of the Department. See
§ 27. Auxiliary State Police
For the purposes of emergency management, as the term is defined in section 2 of this title, the Commissioner of Public Safety may recruit and train for police duty citizens, including sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, and police officers, from whom he or she may augment the State Police, in emergency functions, by employing such number of them, for such period and at such compensation as the Governor may fix, as auxiliary State Police, who shall take the oath prescribed for sheriffs and, while so employed, shall each wear a distinctive arm badge marked with the words “AUXILIARY STATE POLICE” and shall have the powers and immunities of the State Police as defined in section 1914 of this title. (Added 1959, No. 23, § 8, eff. March 6, 1959; amended 1989, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 21.)