Vermont § 257 - Fees for fingerprinting

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§ 257. Fees for fingerprinting

  • ; Fingerprint Fee Special Fund State, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies may charge a fee of up to $35.00
    for providing applicants or other individuals with a set of classifiable fingerprints
    as required by this subchapter. No fee shall be charged to retake fingerprints determined
    by the Vermont Crime Information Center not to be classifiable. Fees collected by
    the State of Vermont under this section shall be credited to the Fingerprint Fee Special
    Fund established and managed pursuant to 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5, and shall
    be available to the Department of Public Safety to offset the costs of providing these
    services. (Added 1997, No. 163 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2021, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 37, eff. May 31, 2022.)

Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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