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§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other laws dealing with weights and measures that he is, or may be, empowered to enforce, the secretary is vested with full police powers, and may arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of those laws, and may seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts of packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold, in violation of the law. In the performance of his official duties, the secretary may enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and may stop any person whatsoever and require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in charge, to some place which the secretary may specify. (1967, No. 102, § 15, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Vermont > Title-09 > Chapter-73 > 2640

§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other laws dealing with weights and measures that he is, or may be, empowered to enforce, the secretary is vested with full police powers, and may arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of those laws, and may seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts of packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold, in violation of the law. In the performance of his official duties, the secretary may enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and may stop any person whatsoever and require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in charge, to some place which the secretary may specify. (1967, No. 102, § 15, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Vermont > Title-09 > Chapter-73 > 2640

§ 2640. Police powers; right of entry and stoppage With respect to the enforcement of this chapter and any other laws dealing with weights and measures that he is, or may be, empowered to enforce, the secretary is vested with full police powers, and may arrest, without formal warrant, any violator of those laws, and may seize for use as evidence, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed weights and measures or amounts of packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold, in violation of the law. In the performance of his official duties, the secretary may enter and go into or upon, without formal warrant, any structure or premises, and may stop any person whatsoever and require him to proceed, with or without any vehicle of which he may be in charge, to some place which the secretary may specify. (1967, No. 102, § 15, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)