Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 3 Sec. 2872

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

§ 2872. Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation

The Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation is reconstituted within the Agency of Natural Resources as the successor to and the continuation of the Department of Forests and Parks and the Division of Recreation; including the Board of Forests, Parks and Recreation with jurisdiction over Camel’s Hump Forest Reserve Commission, Northeast Forest Fire Protection Commission, and the Forest Resource Advisory Council. (Added 1969, No. 246 (Adj. Sess.), § 8, eff. June 1, 1970; amended 1979, No. 159 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 1987, No. 76, § 18.)