When an officer has attached personal property and taken it into his or her custody and chained, locked, or otherwise secured the same, a person, except another officer duly authorized, shall not interfere with the first named officer's custody of such property. A person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than $100.00 or be imprisoned not more than 60 days, or both.
12 V.S.A. § 3256