§ 1. Unified court system established The Judiciary shall be a unified court system under the administrative control of the Supreme Court. It shall consist of an appellate division, which shall be the Supreme Court, and a trial division, which shall consist of a trial court of general jurisdiction to be known as the Superior […]
§ 17. Reporter of decisions; appointment The Justices of the Supreme Court shall in each even year appoint a reporter of the decisions of the Court and may fill a vacancy in such office.
§ 18. Opinions; filing and preservation; copies (a) Each opinion of the Supreme Court shall be signed by one or more of the Justices and filed with the reporter of decisions. (b) When a volume of the Vermont Reports has been published, the reporter shall transmit for preservation the original opinions in the cases printed […]
§ 2. Supreme Court established; jurisdiction (a) The Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of appeals from judgments, rulings, and orders of the Superior Court, administrative agencies, boards, commissions, and officers unless otherwise provided by law. (b) The Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction, concurrent with the Superior Court, of proceedings in certiorari, mandamus, prohibition, […]
§ 20. Reports of decisions The reporter shall annually prepare the decisions of the Court for publication, read the proof, and superintend the printing and binding thereof. All causes decided shall be reported within one year after the decisions are made.
§ 21. Court Administrator The Office of Court Administrator is hereby created. He or she shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Supreme Court which shall fix his or her salary and prescribe his or her duties from time to time. He or she shall devote full time to his or […]
§ 21a. Duties of the Chief Superior Judge (a) The Chief Superior Judge shall assign and specially assign Superior judges, including themselves, and Environmental judges to the Superior Court. All Superior judges except Environmental judges shall be subject to the requirements of rotation as ordered by the Supreme Court. Assignments made pursuant to the rotation […]
§ 22. Designation and special assignment of judicial officers and retired judicial officers (a)(1) The Chief Justice may appoint and assign a retired Justice or judge with the Justice’s or judge’s consent or a Superior or Probate judge to a special assignment on the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice may appoint, and the Chief Superior […]
§ 23. Compensation In the performance of judicial duties, the specially assigned judicial officer shall be entitled to a per diem equal to the daily compensation authorized for the judicial position to which he or she is assigned and necessary expenses. An acting judge in Criminal Division of the Superior Court shall receive $75.00 a […]
§ 25. Judicial Branch; furlough days; administrative leave (a) The Supreme Court is authorized to declare up to 12 unpaid Judicial Branch furlough days in a fiscal year and on those days may close the courts in the State. For purposes of implementing a furlough day, the Supreme Court is authorized to reduce on a […]
§ 26. Half-time judges Of the Superior judge positions authorized by this title, up to two may be shared, each by two half-time judges. Of the magistrate positions authorized by this title, one may be shared by two half-time magistrates. Of the hearing officer positions authorized by this title, one may be shared by two […]
§ 27. Court Technology Special Fund There is established the Court Technology Special Fund which shall be managed in accordance with 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5. Administrative fees collected pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 7252 and revenue collected pursuant to fees established pursuant to sections 1105 and 1109 of this title shall be deposited […]
§ 27a. Contracts for Internet service Every contract to provide broadband Internet access service, as defined in 3 V.S.A. § 348(d)(1), for the Judicial Branch shall include terms and conditions requiring that the Internet service provider certify that it is in compliance with the consumer protection and net neutrality standards established in 3 V.S.A. § […]
§ 27b. Electronically filed verified documents (a) A registered electronic filer in the Judiciary’s electronic document filing system may file any document that would otherwise require the approval or verification of a notary by filing the document with the following language inserted above the signature and date: “I declare that the above statement is true […]
§ 28. Municipal Ticket Repayment Revolving Fund (a) The Municipal Ticket Repayment Revolving Fund is created for the purpose of facilitating the transfer of incorrectly deposited Judicial Bureau payments to the appropriate municipality. A municipality may request a loan from the Municipal Ticket Repayment Revolving Fund in the amount owed another municipality if the municipality […]
§ 3. Judicial officers; administrative and disciplinary control The Supreme Court shall have administrative and disciplinary control of all judicial officers of the State, in addition to and not inconsistent with the constitutional powers of the General Assembly in those matters. It shall promulgate a Code of Judicial Ethics that shall be binding on those […]
§ 30. Superior Court (a)(1) A Superior Court having statewide jurisdiction is created. The Superior Court shall have the following divisions: (A) A Civil Division, which shall be a court of record and have jurisdiction over the matters described in section 31 of this title. The Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure shall apply in the […]
§ 31. Jurisdiction; Civil Division The Civil Division shall have: (1) original and exclusive jurisdiction of all original civil actions, except as otherwise provided in sections 2, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 1102 of this title; (2) appellate jurisdiction of causes, civil and criminal, appealable to the court; (3) original jurisdiction, concurrent with the Supreme […]
§ 32. Jurisdiction; Criminal Division (a) The Criminal Division shall have jurisdiction to try, render judgment, and pass sentence in prosecutions for felonies and misdemeanors. (b) The Criminal Division shall have jurisdiction to try and finally determine prosecutions for violations of bylaws or ordinances of a village, town, or city, except as otherwise provided. (c) […]
§ 33. Jurisdiction; Family Division (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Family Division shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and dispose of the following proceedings filed or pending on or after October 1, 1990: (1) All desertion and support proceedings and all parentage actions filed pursuant to 15 V.S.A. chapter […]
