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DUI law in Vermont
The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.
DUI law in Vermont concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.
The two legal questions
The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.
Driving privileges
The licence case
- Forum
- The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
- Clock
- Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event
- Deadline to request a hearing
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.Check the suspension notice or order and the licensing agency’s official instructions. Do not rely on the criminal court date.
- Suspension under the cited rule
- For a first qualifying failed-test suspension, 90 days and until the reinstatement requirements of § 1209a are met.
- This is the test-result suspension under § 1205(a)(2), not the separate refusal suspension or the lifetime rule in § 1205(a)(3).
- Eligible drivers may operate under an ignition-interlock restricted licence or certificate. A second suspension under the subchapter is 18 months; a third or subsequent suspension is for life, subject to the statute's interlock provisions.
- Hearing procedure under the cited rule
- For a civil suspension under 23 V.S.A. §1205, sign the hearing-request form supplied with the notice and mail or deliver it to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles at the address shown. The hearing is before the Criminal Division of the Superior Court.
- The Commissioner forwards the request and supporting notice and affidavit to the court and State’s Attorney. This is the civil license-suspension proceeding, distinct from the criminal DUI case.
- The notice supplies the preliminary hearing’s date, time and location. Venue is the Superior Court territorial unit where the offense is alleged to have occurred.
- This procedure answer does not resolve the filing-clock difference between the notice-date wording in §1205(d)(3)-(4) and the receipt wording in §1205(f). Have the notice and applicable deadline checked promptly; do not wait for the criminal case.
Criminal charge
The criminal case
- Forum
- A criminal court
- Clock
- Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here
- Alcohol-concentration threshold
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- First-offense penalty rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
- Lookback period
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Vermont
The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.
- Standard drivers
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Operating a commercial motor vehicle
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Under-21 rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Vermont in detail
8 further Vermont topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.