§ 561 - Authority of liquor control investigators; arrest for unlawfully manufacturing, possessing or transporting alcoholic beverages; seizure of property
§ 561. Authority of liquor control investigators; arrest for unlawfully manufacturing, possessing or transporting alcoholic beverages; seizure of property
(a) The director of the enforcement division of the department of liquor control and investigators employed by the liquor control board or by the department of liquor control shall be law enforcement officers and shall have the same powers and immunities as those conferred on the state police by section 1914 of Title 20, as necessary to carry out liquor control enforcement duties under this title or while performing liquor control enforcement duties at a licensed premise or event catered by a licensee or in the immediate vicinity of a licensed premise or an event catered by a licensee.
(b) The commissioner of liquor control, the director of the enforcement division of the department of liquor control or an investigator employed by the liquor control board or by the department of liquor control and any other law enforcement officer may arrest or take into custody pursuant to the Vermont Rules of Criminal Procedure, a person whom he or she finds in the act of manufacturing alcohol or possessing a still, or other apparatus for the manufacture of alcohol, or unlawfully selling, bartering, possessing, furnishing or transporting alcohol, or unlawfully selling, furnishing or transporting spirituous liquor, or malt and vinous beverages, and shall seize the liquors, alcohol, vessels and implements of sale and the stills or other apparatus for the manufacture of alcohol in the possession of the person. He or she may also seize and take into custody any property described in this section. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 33, eff. March 1, 1961; 1987, No. 201 (Adj. Sess.).)