Vermont Statutes Annotated — Title 32 (Taxation and Finance)
32 V.S.A. § 5224
Trustee process
# (a)
A person or corporation may be summoned as trustee of the defendant and the goods, effects, and credits of such defendant in the hands of such trustee at the time of service of the writ thereon or that shall thereafter come into the hands or possession thereof before disclosure, shall thereby be attached and held to respond to final judgment in such cause, notwithstanding the tax or taxes whereon action is so brought are less than the sum of $10.00. A person or corporation so summoned as trustee may be adjudged liable as such notwithstanding the value of the goods, effects, or credits in the hands or possession thereof belonging to such defendant is less than $10.00.
# (b)
In suits for the collection of taxes by trustee process, when the defendant contests the validity of the tax and does not prevail, judgment shall be rendered against him or her for all taxable costs and execution issued accordingly, notwithstanding such costs are greater than the amount of the judgment against the trustee.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 133-5135 · Returns to Director
- 133-5136 · Interest on overdue taxes
- 133-5137 · Recording delinquent payments
- 133-5138 · Power of collector as to delinquent taxes
- 133-5139 · Collection of taxes by sheriff
- 133-5140 · Collection from estate of deceased
- 133-5141 · Collection from earnings of municipal employees
- 133-5142 · Delinquent taxes; interest and collection fees
- 133-5161 · Repealed
- 133-5162 · List of delinquent taxpayers
- 133-5163 · Certification
- 133-5164 · Penalties
- 133-5165 · 133-5165
- 133-5191 · Property subject to distraint
- 133-5192 · Distraint by copy
- 133-5193 · Sale on distraint
- 133-5194 · Repealed. 1979, No. 21
- 133-5221 · Commencement of action; disqualifications
- 133-5222 · Taxes collectible by action
- 133-5223 · Recognizance requirement
- 133-5224 · Trustee process
- 133-5225 · Repealed. 1971, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 237, eff. March 29,…
- 133-5226 · Presumption of lawful assessment
- 133-5227 · Judge not disqualified
- 133-5251 · Definitions
- 133-5252 · Levy and notice of sale; securing property
- 133-5253 · Form of advertisement and notice of sale
- 133-5254 · Sale of realty
- 133-5255 · Report of sale; form
- 133-5256 · Sale of lands subject to lease
- 133-5257 · Sale of realty to satisfy personal property taxes
- 133-5258 · Fees and costs allowed after warrant and levy recorded
- 133-5259 · Municipality may acquire land on tax sale
- 133-5260 · Redemption
- 133-5261 · Deed by collector
- 133-5262 · Recording lands not redeemed
- 133-5263 · Limitation of actions against grantee in possession
- 133-5291 · Disputing validity of tax
- 133-5292 · Filing of taxpayer’s objections
- 133-5293 · Time limitation on assertion of defenses by taxpayer