Damages for want of fence; liability When a person or estate is damaged by cattle, horses, sheep, or swine breaking into a public burial ground and injuring a grave, headstone, monument, shrubbery, or flowers, for want of a legal fence around such burial ground, such person or estate may recover of the town double the amount of damages, in a civil action.
Vermont Legal Code
§ 5365
Vermont Title 18 — Vermont law
Source: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/18/121/05365· Version 2026