20 V.S.A. § 3381: Maintenance of pounds

(a)(1) Each organized town shall maintain as many good and sufficient pounds as it may need for the impounding of animals liable to be impounded.

(2) The pound may be kept in an adjacent town if the adjacent town consents and the poundkeeper may be a resident of an adjacent town.

(b) Each town may regulate the operation of its pounds except as to matters regulated by law.