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or her into protective custody , which in no event shall exceed 24 hours . 24
A physician must furnish a death certificate within 24 hours of the death , including a true statement of the cause of death and other facts required on an official form . 25
Retail dealers of cigarettes and tobacco products must affix proper stamps evidencing payment of taxes on the items within 24 hours of possession . 26
Inmates of correctional facilities must be screened for signs of mental condition or psychiatric disability or disorder or serious functional impairment within 24 hours of admittance . 27
Municipalities must restore water and sewer service to persons who have been disconnected or interrupted on account of failures to pay for these services within 24 hours of payment or an agreement to pay . 28
Convicted vagrants who are unable to pay fines within 24 hours shall be imprisoned for as many days as twice the number of dollars in the sentence , including the costs of detention and commitment . 29
Trappers hunting hare or rabbits must visit their traps at least once every 24 hours . 30
These statutes requiring twenty-four hours to do something indicate the most urgent of priorities in Vermont law . There are consequences for failing to make this deadline .
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Thirty-Six Hours
Operators must file reports for motorboat accidents within 36 hours with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles . 31 If the appropriate state or local authority fails to assume responsibility for decedent ’ s remains of a written notice from a funeral director or crematory operator , when there is no surviving family member after reasonable efforts to locate them , the director or operator may determine the final disposition of the remains . 32
Physicians or those filling out death certificates must deliver a copy to the family of the deceased or undertaker within 36 hours after death . 33
There is a 36-hour period during which a parent whose consent to the adoption of a minor is required may execute a consent or relinquishment , and a 21-day period following for revocation . 34
Forty-Eight Hours
Power companies must mark all underground utility facilities within 48 hours , exclusive of weekends or holidays , after receiving notice of proposed excavation on property . 35
When the director of professional regulation takes final disciplinary action against a boxer , promoter or manager , the director
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must report the results to the Association of Boxing Commissions within 48 hours . 36
For 48 hours before a regatta or race and 48 hours thereafter , motorboats shall be muffled , reducing the maximum machine operating noise level to no more than 82 decibels at 50 feet , in the normal operating environment . 37
All aircraft accidents resulting in personal injury or damage to property must immediately notify the Agency of Transportation and within 48 hours file a report of the accident . 38
Lobbyists must register with the Secretary of State within 48 hours of commencing lobbying activities , and lobbyist employers have the same requirement within 48 hours of engaging a lobbyist . 39
Three Days
You must report accidents involving ATVs , snowmobiles , or motor vehicles causing damage or injury within 72 hours of the incident . 40
The custodian of a public record has three business days from the date of the request to identify the records to be withheld as exempt from the Public Records law . This notice must include the asserted statutory basis for the claim and a notice of a right to appeal . 41
Sex offenders must report their change
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