§ 494b - Employers permitted to require polygraph examinations - Vermont Statutes

§ 494b. Employers permitted to require polygraph examinations

The following employers may require that an applicant for employment take or submit to a polygraph examination, or administer or cause to be administered, a polygraph examination to an applicant for employment:

(1) the department of public safety; the department of motor vehicles, for applicants for law enforcement positions; the department of fish and wildlife, for applicants for law enforcement positions; the department of liquor control and the liquor control board, for applicants for investigator positions; municipal police departments and county sheriffs, as to sworn police officers and deputy sheriffs;

(2) any employer whose primary business is the wholesale or retail sale of precious metals or gems and jewelry or items made from precious metals or gems;

(3) any employer whose business includes the manufacture or the wholesale or retail sale of regulated drugs as defined in section 4201 of Title 18; provided, however, that only employees who come in contact with such regulated drugs may be required to take a polygraph examination;

(4) any employer authorized or required under federal law or regulations to administer polygraph examinations. (Added 1985, No. 89; amended 2001, No. 38, § 1; 2009, No. 5, § 1.)