The following administrative departments are hereby created, through the instrumentality of which the Governor, under the Constitution, shall exercise such functions as are by law assigned to each department respectively:
(1)The Department of Mental Health
(3)The Department of Financial Regulation
(4)The Department of Corrections
(5)The Department of Housing and Community Development
(6), (7) [Repealed.]
(8)The Department of Fish and Wildlife
(9)The Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation
(10)The Department of Health
(12)The Department of Labor
(13)The Department of Libraries
(14)The Department of Liquor and Lottery
(16)The Military Department
(17)The Department of Motor Vehicles
(18)The Department of Public Safety
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The following administrative departments are hereby created, through the instrumentality of which the Governor, under the Constitution, shall exercise such functions as are by law assigned to each department respectively:
(1) The Department of Mental Health
(2) [Repealed.]
(3) The Department of Financial Regulation
(4) The Department of Corrections
(5) The Department of Housing and Community Development
(6), (7) [Repealed.]
(8) The Department of Fish and Wildlife
(9) The Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation
(10) The Department of Health
(11) [Repealed.]
(12) The Department of Labor
(13) The Department of Libraries
(14) The Department of Liquor and Lottery
(15) [Repealed.]
(16) The Military Department
(17) The Department of Motor Vehicles
(18) The Department of Public Safety
(19) The Department of Public Service
(20) The Department for Children and Families
(21) The Department of Taxes
(22) The Department of Environmental Conservation
(23) The Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living
(24) The Department of Vermont Health Access. (Added 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. March 1, 1961; amended 1967, No. 71, § 2; 1967, No. 106, § 2; 1969, No. 207 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. March 24, 1970; 1969, No. 226 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 31, 1970; 1981, No. 66, § 1, eff. May 1, 1981; 1983, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), eff. April 13, 1984; 1987, No. 76, § 18; 1987, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1989, No. 187 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 25; 1989, No. 256 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. Jan. 1, 1991; 1995, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1995, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 38(a); 1999, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003; 2005, No. 103 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 5, 2006; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 2, 140; 2007, No. 15, § 1a; 2011, No. 78 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 2, 2012; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 246, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2013, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 97; 2015, No. 23, § 139; 2018, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § 106.)