16 Administrative Order No. 16. Uniform Snowmobile/Boating Complaint Procedure
Administrative Orders of the Supreme Court
Rule Text
For the purpose of instituting uniform administrative procedures for snowmobile/boating violations, the Supreme Court issues the following order pursuant to its authority under 4 V.S.A. § 3 and 12 V.S.A. § 5707.
§ 1. Pursuant to agreement, the commissioner of public safety will be responsible for the issuance of and accounting for the uniform snowmobile/boating complaints. The commissioner may promulgate procedures, rules and regulations for the issuance of and accounting for the complaints with the approval of the court administrator.
§ 2. The court administrator shall make periodic inspections of issuing add accounting procedures of the commissioner.
§ 3. All complaints shall be numbered in sequence. A record shall be kept of the law enforcement agency to which the complaints are issued and the numbers of the complaints that have been issued to that agency. All law enforcement agencies and law enforcement officers shall be responsible to account for each and every complaint issued to them.
§ 4. Any complaint which is spoiled for any reason, including but not limited to error or faulty complaint, and not served upon a violator, shall be voided by the issuing law enforcement officer and returned to the department.
§ 5. Following final disposition of a snowmobile/boating violation either by plea or trial and payment of fine, the district court shall forward the abstract of the court record to the department of public safety.
Amendment history: Adopted Oct. 25, 1978.