Vermont Statutes Title 18. Health, § 504. Investigation in criminal cause; expert witness

When the State's Attorney of a county, on the order of a Superior judge or the Attorney General, for use in a criminal cause pending in the State's Attorney's office, requests an expert investigation, chemical or pathological, of a substance, such investigation shall immediately be made at the laboratory, without charge to the State; and the expert making or interpreting such investigation shall submit the results of such expert's work to such State's Attorney, and shall attend court as a witness at any place in the State when required to do so by subpoena, and submit in court the results of such expert's investigation; and the expert shall be paid as a witness, including the expert's actual expenses of attendance when summoned by the State.