§ 2601 -   Policy and purpose

§ 2601. Policy and purpose

(a) It is the purpose of this chapter to secure the safety and health of low income Vermont households by providing needy Vermonters with assistance for the purchase of essential home heating fuel.

(b) This chapter establishes a home heating fuel assistance program in the agency of human services with both a seasonal fuel assistance component for very low income households and a crisis component to supply fuel assistance to low income households in crisis situations. (Added 1995, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 10, 1996.)