(a) The Legislative Council shall continuously maintain and update a formal topical revision of existing permanent statutory law to be known as the Vermont Statutes Annotated. The topical revision shall be arranged in a systematic and annotated form that is consolidated into the smallest practical number of volumes and indexes.

(b) The Legislative Council, on behalf of the State of Vermont, shall hold the copyright to the Vermont Statutes Annotated. (Added 2001, No. 30, § 1.)