Vt. Stat. tit. 18 § 5371
Current through L. 2024, c. 185.
In case of the burial of a person not having known estate, and not having a suitable marker or headstone erected at the person's grave within three years after the date of such burial, the selectboard of the town or the aldermen of a city, as the case may be, where such person is buried, shall cause to be erected at such person's grave, at the expense of such town or city, a suitable marker or headstone with the inscription thereon of the name of the deceased and dates of the deceased's birth and death, if the same are known.
18 V.S.A. § 5371