Vermont Statutes

Title 09 - Commerce and Trade

Chapter 1 - MONEY OF ACCOUNT (Contains: §§ 1 – 1)
- § 1 -   Dollar, cent and mill
Chapter 3 - INTEREST (Contains: §§ 31 – 32)
- § 31 -   31 Repealed. 1967, No. 377 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 26, 1968; 1969, No. 118, eff.April 22, 1969.
- § 32 -   32-34. Repealed. 1967, No. 377 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. March 26, 1968.
Chapter 4 - INTEREST (Contains: §§ 41 – 206)
- § 41 -   Repealed. 1979, No. 173 (Adj. Sess.), § 19, eff. April 30, 1980.
- § 41a -   Legal rates
- § 41b -   Rent-to-own agreements; disclosure of terms
- § 41c -   Rent-to-own; assistive devices
- § 42 -   Permitted charges
- § 43 -   Deposit requirement prohibited; exception
- § 44 -   Certain charges not usurious
- § 45 -   Prepayment of loans
- § 46 -   Exceptions
- § 47 -   Application of payments
- § 48 -   Excess insurance, proceeds
- § 49 -   Computation of interest
- § 50 -   Penalties
- § 101 -   Borrower's notice
- § 102 -   Co-signer's notice
- § 103 -   Residential real estate loans
- § 104 -   High rate loans
- § 201 -   Definitions
- § 202 -   Applicability
- § 203 -   Duty of lender
- § 204 -   Duty of settlement agent that is not a lender
- § 205 -   Commissioner's powers
- § 206 -   Consumer remedies
Chapter 20 - UNIFORM ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT (Contains: §§ 270 – 290)
- § 270 -   Short title
- § 271 -   Definitions
- § 272 -   Scope
- § 273 -   Prospective application
- § 274 -   Use of electronic records and electronic signatures; variation by agreement
- § 275 -   Construction and application
- § 276 -   Legal recognition of electronic records, electronic signatures, and electronic contracts
- § 277 -   Provision of information in writing; presentation of records
- § 278 -   Attribution and effect of electronic record and electronic signature
- § 279 -   Effect of change or error
- § 280 -   Notarization and acknowledgment
- § 281 -   Retention of electronic records; originals
- § 282 -   Admissibility in evidence
- § 283 -   Automated transaction
- § 284 -   Time and place of sending and receipt
- § 285 -   Transferable records
- § 286 -   Preservation of rights and obligations
- § 287 -   Consumer disclosures
- § 288 -   Accuracy and ability to retain contracts and other records
- § 289 -   Procedures consistent with federal law
- § 290 -   Severability clause
Chapter 21 - THE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT (Contains: §§ 301 – 301)
- § 301 -   301-876. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 23 - UNIFORM BILLS OF LADING ACT (Contains: §§ 931 – 931)
- § 931 -   931-1073. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 25 - UNIFORM WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS ACT (Contains: §§ 1131 – 1131)
- § 1131 -   1131-1293. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 41 - UNIFORM SALES ACT (Contains: §§ 1501 – 1501)
- § 1501 -   1501-1577. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 43 - BULK SALES (Contains: §§ 1631 – 1631)
- § 1631 -   1631, 1632. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 45 - CONDITIONAL SALES (Contains: §§ 1691 – 1691)
- § 1691 -   1691-1700. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 47 - CHATTEL MORTGAGES (Contains: §§ 1751 – 1751)
- § 1751 -   1751-1797. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 49 - FACTORS' LIENS (Contains: §§ 1851 – 1851)
- § 1851 -   1851-1864. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 51 - MISCELLANEOUS LIENS (Contains: §§ 1921 – 2091)
- § 1921 -   Extent of lien; notice
- § 1922 -   Effect of lien
- § 1923 -   Recording notice of lien
- § 1924 -   Action to enforce lien
- § 1925 -   Foreclosure
- § 1926 -   Death of landowner; effect on lien
- § 1927 -   Application to homestead
- § 1928 -   Married woman's property
- § 1951 -   Artisan's lien
- § 1952 -   Enforcement by sale
- § 1953 -   Notice of sale
- § 1954 -   Price in dispute; tender by owner
- § 1971 -   Extent of lien
- § 1972 -   Preference for wage liens
- § 1991 -   Nature and extent of lien
- § 1992 -   Action to enforce lien
- § 1993 -   Procedure for attaching logs
- § 2011 -   Nature and extent of lien; registered marks
- § 2012 -   Registration of marks; regulations
- § 2013 -   Certified copies of certificates; fee
- § 2014 -   Recording; fees
- § 2031 -   Lien for labor and materials; enforcement
- § 2032 -   Prerequisites for lien
- § 2051 -   Filing in town clerk's office
- § 2052 -   Recording of notice of lien
- § 2053 -   Discharge of lien
- § 2071 -   Liens for service of stallions
- § 2072 -   -Filing of statement claiming lien
- § 2073 -   -False statements in claim of lien
- § 2074 -   -Penalty for fraudulent sale of mare
- § 2075 -   Lien for keeping or pasturing animals
- § 2091 -   Attachment not waiver of implied lien
Chapter 53 - ASSIGNMENT FOR BENEFIT OF CREDITORS (Contains: §§ 2151 – 2158)
- § 2151 -   Nature and form of assignment
- § 2152 -   Schedule; list of creditors
- § 2153 -   Copy of assignment to be filed
- § 2154 -   Assignee's bond
- § 2155 -   Failure to file copy of assignment or to execute bond
- § 2156 -   Assignee's duties
- § 2157 -   Application to superior judge for settlement of account by assignee
- § 2158 -   Powers of superior judge
Chapter 55 - ASSIGNMENT OF ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (Contains: §§ 2211 – 2211)
- § 2211 -   2211-2224. Repealed. 1966, No. 29, § 3, eff. at midnight Dec. 31, 1966.
Chapter 57 - FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES AND FALSE CHECKS (Contains: §§ 2281 – 2312)
- § 2281 -   2281-2283. Repealed. 1995, No. 179 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.
- § 2285 -   Definitions
- § 2286 -   Insolvency
- § 2287 -   Value
- § 2288 -   Transfers fraudulent as to present and future creditors
- § 2289 -   Transfers fraudulent as to present creditors
- § 2290 -   When transfer is made or obligation is incurred
- § 2291 -   Remedies of creditors
- § 2292 -   Defenses; liability and protection of transferee
- § 2293 -   Extinguishment of cause of action
- § 2294 -   Supplementary provisions
- § 2295 -   Uniformity of application and construction
- § 2311 -   Civil remedy for bad checks; damages
- § 2312 -   Prima facie evidence of knowledge
Chapter 59 - MOTOR VEHICLE RETAIL INSTALLMENT SALES FINANCING (Contains: §§ 2351 – 2362)
- § 2351 -   Definitions
- § 2352 -   2352, 2353. Repealed. 1995, No. 162 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. Jan. 1, 1997.
- § 2354 -   Investigations and complaints; powers of administrator
- § 2355 -   Requirements and prohibitions as to retail installment contracts
- § 2355a -   2355a Repealed. 1969, No. 118, eff. April 22, 1969.
- § 2356 -   Repealed. 1979, No. 173 (Adj. Sess.), § 19, eff. April 30, 1980.
- § 2356a -   Finance charge limitation and method of calculation
- § 2357 -   Prepayment
- § 2358 -   Refinancing retail installment contracts
- § 2359 -   Cases not provided for; scope
- § 2360 -   Waiver
- § 2361 -   Penalties
- § 2362 -   Prohibition on discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, age, or handicapp
Chapter 61 - RETAIL INSTALLMENT SALES (Contains: §§ 2401 – 2410)
- § 2401 -   Definitions
- § 2402 -   2402, 2403. Repealed. 1995, No. 162 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(c), eff. Jan. 1, 1997.
- § 2404 -   Investigations and complaints; powers of commissioner
- § 2405 -   Retail installment contracts
- § 2406 -   Retail charge agreements
- § 2406a -   Repealed. 1969, No. 118, eff. April 22, 1969.
- § 2407 -   Scope
- § 2408 -   Waiver
- § 2409 -   Penalties
- § 2410 -   Prohibition on discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, age, or handicapp
Chapter 62 - PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION (Contains: §§ 2430 – 2445)
- § 2430 -   Definitions
- § 2435 -   Notice of security breaches
- § 2440 -   Social security number protection
- § 2445 -   Safe destruction of documents containing personal information
Chapter 63 - CONSUMER FRAUD (Contains: §§ 2451 – 2480n)
- § 2451 -   Purpose
- § 2451a -   Definitions
- § 2452 -   Limitation
- § 2453 -   Practices prohibited; antitrust and consumer fraud
- § 2454 -   Purchase contracts; rescission
- § 2455 -   Defenses
- § 2456 -   Confession of judgment
- § 2457 -   Evidence of fraud
- § 2458 -   Restraining prohibited acts
- § 2459 -   Assurance of discontinuance
- § 2460 -   Civil investigation
- § 2461 -   Civil penalty
- § 2461a -   Hearing aid violations
- § 2461b -   Regulation of liquified petroleum gas
- § 2461c -   Predatory pricing
- § 2461d -   Price gouging of petroleum products and heating fuel products
- § 2461e -   Requirements for guaranteed price plans and prepaid contracts
- § 2462 -   Action by state's attorney
- § 2463 -   Credit billing for certain home solicitation sales
- § 2463a -   Choice of law in computer information agreement
- § 2464 -   Telemarketing transactions
- § 2464a -   Prohibited telephone solicitations
- § 2464b -   Registration of telemarketers
- § 2464c -   Private cause of action
- § 2464d -   Telephone preference service
- § 2465 -   Antitrust remedies
- § 2465a -   Definition of local and locally grown
- § 2466 -   Goods and services appearing on telephone bill
- § 2466a -   Consumer protections; prescription drugs
- § 2467 -   Definitions
- § 2468 -   Warranty
- § 2469 -   Loaners
- § 2470 -   Remedies
- § 2470a -   Definition
- § 2470b -   Unsafe children's products; prohibition
- § 2470c -   Exception
- § 2470d -   Penalty; remedies
- § 2470e -   Definitions
- § 2470f -   Prohibition of lead in children's products
- § 2470g -   Prohibition of lead in jewelry
- § 2470h -   Consumer warnings; notification; phase-outs
- § 2470i -   Prohibition on removal of labels
- § 2470j -   Prohibition on providing substantial assistance
- § 2470k -   Violations
- § 2470l -   Scope
- § 2471 -   Definitions
- § 2472 -   Contracts between paid fundraisers and charitable organizations
- § 2473 -   Notice of solicitation
- § 2474 -   Notice not to be used as an endorsement
- § 2475 -   Solicitations
- § 2476 -   Bank accounts
- § 2477 -   Financial report
- § 2478 -   Records required
- § 2479 -   Violations
- § 2479a -   Truth in advertising and producing musical performances
- § 2480a -   Definitions
- § 2480b -   Disclosures to consumers
- § 2480c -   Charges for certain disclosures by credit reporting agencies
- § 2480d -   Procedure in case of disputed accuracy
- § 2480e -   Consumer consent
- § 2480f -   Violations
- § 2480g -   Exemptions
- § 2480h -   Security freeze by credit reporting agency; time in effect
- § 2480i -   Credit reporting agency duties if security freeze in place
- § 2480j -   Persons not required to place security freeze
- § 2480k -   Complaints to law enforcement agencies
- § 2480l -   Verification of change of consumer's address for preapproved offers of credit
- § 2480m -   Limitations on use of social security numbers
- § 2480n -   Credit report files of deceased persons
Chapter 65 - AGRICULTURAL FINANCE LEASES (Contains: §§ 2481 – 2492)
- § 2481 -   Definitions
- § 2482 -   Agricultural finance leases
- § 2483 -   Disclosure sheet
- § 2484 -   Warranties
- § 2485 -   Unconscionability
- § 2486 -   Option to accelerate at will
- § 2487 -   Waiver
- § 2488 -   Prohibition on discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, age, or handicapp
- § 2489 -   Limitation on power to choose applicable law and judicial forum
- § 2490 -   Remedies and penalties
- § 2491 -   Construction
- § 2492 -   Rules
Chapter 67 - PAY-PER-CALL SERVICES (Contains: §§ 2501 – 2516)
- § 2501 -   Definitions
- § 2502 -   Requirements for disclosures in advertisements
- § 2503 -   Requirements for preambles
- § 2504 -   Bypass mechanisms
- § 2505 -   Loan and credit card services
- § 2506 -   Employment services
- § 2507 -   Prize award services
- § 2508 -   Children's program services
- § 2509 -   Charitable solicitations
- § 2510 -   Pay-per-call fulfillment services
- § 2511 -   Automatic dialing devices
- § 2512 -   Chain referral services
- § 2513 -   Automatic billing arrangements
- § 2514 -   Billing for pay-per-services; public service board authority
- § 2515 -   Service agent
- § 2516 -   Violations
Chapter 68 - CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITIES (Contains: §§ 2517 – 2518)
- § 2517 -   Charitable gift annuities
- § 2518 -   Enforcement and remedies
Chapter 71 - TRADEMARKS; REGISTRATION OF NAME OR MARK (Contains: §§ 2521 – 2575)
- § 2521 -   Trademark defined
- § 2522 -   Registration
- § 2523 -   Certificate of registration; filing fee
- § 2524 -   Duration and renewal
- § 2525 -   Assignments
- § 2526 -   Applications for registration; classification
- § 2527 -   Suitability for registration
- § 2528 -   Fraudulent registration
- § 2529 -   Enjoining use of counterfeits or imitations
- § 2530 -   Violations
- § 2531 -   Penalties
- § 2532 -   Prior rights
- § 2571 -   Publication and registration of name or mark of owner
- § 2572 -   Penalty for use of mark without consent of owner
- § 2573 -   Mutilating receptacle or erasing name; penalty
- § 2574 -   Destroying or polluting butter crates or carriers; penalty
- § 2575 -   Search warrant; judicial proceedings
Chapter 72 - MOBILE HOMES (Contains: §§ 2601 – 2607)
- § 2601 -   Definitions
- § 2602 -   Sale; price disclosure; uniform mobile home bill of sale
- § 2603 -   Financing of mobile homes; creditors' remedies; retail installment contract disclosure
- § 2604 -   Real estate deeds for mobile homes
- § 2605 -   Mobile home bill of sale conversion process
- § 2606 -   Relocating mobile homes to another municipality or state
- § 2607 -   Penalty
Chapter 73 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (Contains: §§ 2631 – 2771)
- § 2631 -   Regulation of weights and measures
- § 2632 -   General powers and duties of secretary
- § 2633 -   Specific powers and duties of secretary; regulations
- § 2634 -   Testing at state-supported institutions
- § 2635 -   General testing
- § 2636 -   Investigations
- § 2637 -   Inspection of packages
- § 2638 -   Stop-use, stop-removal, and removal orders
- § 2639 -   Disposition of correct and incorrect apparatus
- § 2640 -   Police powers; right of entry and stoppage
- § 2641 -   Powers and duties of inspector
- § 2642 -   Duty of owners of incorrect apparatus
- § 2643 -   Inspections; penalties
- § 2651 -   Definitions
- § 2652 -   Systems of weights and measures
- § 2653 -   State standards of weight and measure
- § 2654 -   Field standards and equipment
- § 2655 -   Construction of contracts
- § 2671 -   Method of sale of commodities; general
- § 2672 -   Packages, declarations of quantity and origin; variations; exemptions
- § 2673 -   Declarations of unit price on random packages
- § 2674 -   Misleading packages
- § 2675 -   Advertising packages for sale
- § 2676 -   Sale by net weight
- § 2677 -   Misrepresentation of price
- § 2691 -   Meat, poultry, and seafood
- § 2692 -   Bulk milk tanks
- § 2693 -   Log measure-The Vermont rule
- § 2694 -   Repealed. 2001, No. 39, § 4.
- § 2695 -   Fluid dairy products
- § 2696 -   Flour, corn meal, and hominy grits
- § 2697 -   Liquid fuels
- § 2697a -   Motor fuel octane content and quality
- § 2698 -   Textile products
- § 2699 -   Berries and small fruits
- § 2700 -   Coal, coke, and charcoal
- § 2701 -   Ice
- § 2721 -   Licensed public weighmaster-License
- § 2722 -   -Optional licensing
- § 2723 -   -Suspension and revocation of license
- § 2724 -   Prohibited acts
- § 2725 -   Dealers and service persons of weighing and measuring devices; registration certificate; hand seal
- § 2726 -   Suspension or revocation of certificate
- § 2727 -   Placed in service report
- § 2728 -   Disposition of condemned devices
- § 2729 -   Calibration of testing equipment; certificate
- § 2730 -   Licensing for operation of weighing and measuring devices
- § 2741 -   Weight certificate; required entries
- § 2742 -   Execution; requirements
- § 2743 -   Scale used; type, test
- § 2744 -   Capacity; platform size; one-draft weighing
- § 2745 -   Copies of weight certificates
- § 2746 -   Bulk delivery
- § 2747 -   Reciprocal acceptance of weight certificates
- § 2761 -   Offenses and penalties
- § 2762 -   Hindering or obstructing officer
- § 2763 -   Impersonation of officer
- § 2764 -   Incorrect weight certificates
- § 2765 -   Malfeasance
- § 2766 -   Replacement of security seal; improper handling of weighing or measuring device
- § 2767 -   Injunction
- § 2768 -   Validity of prosecutions
- § 2769 -   Presumptive evidence
- § 2770 -   Repealed. 1969, No. 9, § 3.
- § 2771 -   Deceptive acts or practices
Chapter 74 - ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR APPLIANCES AND EQU (Contains: §§ 2791 – 2798)
- § 2791 -   General purpose This chapter establishes minimum efficiency standards for certainproducts sold or installed in the state. (Added 2005, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.
- § 2792 -   Findings
- § 2793 -   Definitions
- § 2794 -   Scope
- § 2795 -   Efficiency standards
- § 2796 -   Implementation
- § 2797 -   Revised standards
- § 2798 -   Testing, certification, labeling, and enforcement
Chapter 75 - ACIDS AND ALKALIS (Contains: §§ 2821 – 2823)
- § 2821 -   Definitions
- § 2822 -   Sale of misbranded products; penalties
- § 2823 -   Enforcement by state board of health; registration of brands and labels
Chapter 76 - MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES (Contains: §§ 2831 – 2844)
- § 2831 -   Hydraulic brake fluids
- § 2841 -   Aversive agent required
- § 2842 -   Records of manufacturer and packager
- § 2843 -   Limitation of liability
- § 2844 -   Exceptions
Chapter 77 - SMOKE DETECTORS AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTORS (Contains: §§ 2881 – 2883)
- § 2881 -   Definitions
- § 2882 -   Installation
- § 2883 -   Requirements for transfer of dwelling
Chapter 79 - UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE AND BEDDING (Contains: §§ 2941 – 2943)
- § 2941 -   Used materials prohibited
- § 2942 -   Tagging of bedding and furniture
- § 2943 -   Penalties
Chapter 80 - FLAME RETARDANTS (Contains: §§ 2971 – 2971)
- § 2971 -   Brominated flame retardants
Chapter 81 - GRISTMILLS (Contains: §§ 3001 – 3002)
- § 3001 -   Posting of rates
- § 3002 -   Excessive toll; penalty
Chapter 82 - SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS (Contains: §§ 3021 – 3023)
- § 3021 -   Definitions
- § 3022 -   Purchase of nonferrous scrap, metal articles, and proprietary articles
- § 3023 -   Penalties
Chapter 83 - INNKEEPERS AND VICTUALERS (Contains: §§ 3061 – 3143)
- § 3061 -   Issuance and revocation
- § 3062 -   Recording of license and revocation of license
- § 3063 -   Revocation by assistant judges of superior court
- § 3101 -   Registration records
- § 3102 -   False registration; failure to register
- § 3103 -   Penalties
- § 3141 -   Liability for loss
- § 3142 -   Limitation on liability
- § 3143 -   Loss of samples, apparel, baggage; loss by fire or force
Chapter 84 - ENERGY-EFFICIENT STANDARDS FOR LIGHT BULBS (Contains: §§ 3153 – 3158)
- § 3153 -   Definitions
- § 3154 -   Adoption of standards
- § 3155 -   Applicability
- § 3156 -   Test methods
- § 3157 -   Certification statements
- § 3158 -   Enforcement and penalties
Chapter 85 - LIGHTNING RODS, FIRE DETECTION EQUIPMENT AND SYSTE (Contains: §§ 3201 – 3201)
- § 3201 -   3201-3206. Repealed. 2003, No. 8, § 18, eff. April 25, 2005.
Chapter 87 - LIME AND LARD (Contains: §§ 3261 – 3291)
- § 3261 -   Packing and branding of lime
- § 3262 -   Penalties
- § 3291 -   Compound lard
Chapter 89 - OILS AND GASOLINE RECEPTACLES (Contains: §§ 3341 – 3381)
- § 3341 -   Sale of certain illuminating oils prohibited
- § 3342 -   Penalties
- § 3343 -   Forfeiture of unlawful oils
- § 3344 -   Sale of naphtha as illuminating oil
- § 3345 -   Inspectors
- § 3346 -   Oath, duties and liabilities of inspector
- § 3347 -   Fraud or negligence of inspector
- § 3348 -   Prosecutions
- § 3381 -   Labels and color of cans
Chapter 91 - OLEOMARGARINE, IMITATION BUTTER AND CHEESE (Contains: §§ 3441 – 3561)
- § 3441 -   3441-3446. Repealed. 1995, No. 47, § 29, eff. July 1, 1996.
- § 3481 -   3481-3483. Repealed. 1995, No. 47, § 29, eff. July 1, 1996.
- § 3521 -   3521-3523. Repealed. 1969, No. 15, § 1.
- § 3561 -   3561, 3562. Repealed. 1995, No. 47, § 29, eff. July 1, 1996.
Chapter 93 - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING (Contains: §§ 3621 – 3688)
- § 3621 -   Administrative assistant and billboard clerk of outdoor advertising; appointment
- § 3622 -   3622-3643. Repealed. 1967, No. 333 (Adj. Sess.), § 27(a), eff. March 23, 1968.
- § 3681 -   3681-3683. Repealed. 1967, No. 333 (Adj. Sess.), § 27(a), eff. March 23, 1968.
- § 3683a -   Agreement authorized
- § 3683b -   3683b-3683e. Repealed. 1967, No. 333 (Adj. Sess.), § 27(a), eff. March 23, 1968.
- § 3683f -   Repealed. 1969, No. 92, § 18, eff. April 19, 1969.
- § 3683g -   Repealed. 1967, No. 77, § 9, eff. April 15, 1967.
- § 3684 -   3684-3687. Repealed. 1967, No. 333 (Adj. Sess.), § 27(a), eff. March 23, 1968.
- § 3688 -   Acquisition and compensation proceedings
Chapter 95 - PAINTS AND PUTTY (Contains: §§ 3801 – 3807)
- § 3801 -   White lead defined
- § 3802 -   Paints, label to contain statement of contents
- § 3803 -   Labeling of impure turpentine or linseed oil
- § 3804 -   Labeling impure putty
- § 3805 -   Penalty for mislabeling
- § 3806 -   Possession to be prima facie evidence of violation
- § 3807 -   Secretary of agriculture, food and markets, general powers
Chapter 97 - PAWNBROKERS (Contains: §§ 3861 – 3871)
- § 3861 -   Pawnbroker defined
- § 3862 -   License required
- § 3863 -   Fees; bond; revocation of license
- § 3864 -   Action on bond
- § 3865 -   Pawnbroker's record book
- § 3866 -   Issuance of pawn ticket; lost tickets
- § 3867 -   Rate of interest on loans
- § 3868 -   Sale of pawned property
- § 3869 -   Application of proceeds of sale
- § 3870 -   Pawning property of persons under eighteen
- § 3871 -   Penalties
Chapter 98 - STORAGE UNITS (Contains: §§ 3901 – 3908)
- § 3901 -   Definitions
- § 3902 -   Residential purposes
- § 3903 -   Disclosures
- § 3904 -   Lien
- § 3905 -   Enforcement of lien
- § 3906 -   Supplemental nature of act
- § 3907 -   Savings clause
- § 3908 -   Severability
Chapter 99 - PORTABLE SAWMILLS (Contains: §§ 3921 – 3921)
- § 3921 -   3921-3926. Repealed. 1977, No. 253 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 1979, No. 3, retroactive to July1, 1978.
Chapter 101 - WAGERING CONTRACTS (Contains: §§ 3981 – 3982)
- § 3981 -   Loser may recover loss
- § 3982 -   Void contracts
Chapter 102 - CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS (Contains: §§ 4001 – 4009)
- § 4001 -   Definitions
- § 4002 -   Owner's payment obligations
- § 4003 -   Contractor's and subcontractor's payment obligations
- § 4004 -   Errors in documentation
- § 4005 -   Retainage
- § 4005a -   Fund held in trust; commingling; no effect on title to real property
- § 4006 -   Prepayment; advance payment
- § 4007 -   Disputes; penalties; attorneys' fees
- § 4008 -   Contracts involving federal aid
- § 4009 -   Owner exclusion
Chapter 103 - TRADING STAMPS (Contains: §§ 4021 – 4027)
- § 4021 -   Definitions
- § 4022 -   Fraud prohibited
- § 4023 -   Distribution, limitations
- § 4024 -   Registration; bond
- § 4025 -   Claims, enforcement
- § 4026 -   Notice of cessation of redemption
- § 4027 -   Penalty
Chapter 105 - CREDIT CARDS (Contains: §§ 4041 – 4045)
- § 4041 -   Definitions
- § 4042 -   Liability for unauthorized use
- § 4043 -   Fraudulent use
- § 4044 -   Penalty
- § 4045 -   Illegal possession; seizure
Chapter 107 - MACHINERY DEALERSHIPS (Contains: §§ 4071 – 4082)
- § 4071 -   Definitions
- § 4072 -   Notice of termination of dealer agreements
- § 4073 -   Supplier's duty to repurchase inventory
- § 4074 -   Repurchase terms
- § 4075 -   Exceptions to repurchase requirement
- § 4076 -   Transfer of business
- § 4077 -   Uniform commercial practice
- § 4077a -   Prohibited acts
- § 4078 -   Warranty obligations
- § 4079 -   Remedies
- § 4080 -   Waiver of chapter void
- § 4081 -   Obligation of successors in interest
- § 4082 -   Forestry and industrial equipment
Chapter 108 - MOTOR VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND DEA (Contains: §§ 4083 – 4100f)
- § 4083 -   Title of chapter
- § 4084 -   Legislative findings
- § 4085 -   Definitions
- § 4086 -   Warranty and predelivery obligations to new motor vehicle dealers
- § 4087 -   Transportation damages
- § 4088 -   Product liability indemnification
- § 4089 -   Termination; cancellation or nonrenewal
- § 4090 -   Notification of termination; cancellation and nonrenewal
- § 4091 -   Payments
- § 4092 -   Dealership facilities assistance upon termination, cancellation, or nonrenewal
- § 4093 -   Right of designated family member to succeed in ownership
- § 4094 -   Refusal to honor succession to ownership; notice required
- § 4095 -   Burden of proof
- § 4096 -   Unlawful acts by manufacturers or distributors
- § 4097 -   Manufacturer violations
- § 4098 -   Limitations on establishing or relocating dealers
- § 4099 -   Civil actions for violations
- § 4100 -   Applicability
- § 4100a -   Agreements governed
- § 4100b -   Enforcement; transportation board
- § 4100c -   Financing; Vermont transportation board
- § 4100d -   Statute of limitations
- § 4100e -   Right of first refusal
- § 4100f -   Severability
Chapter 109 - SERVICE STATION OPERATORS, OIL COMPANIES AND FRANC (Contains: §§ 4101 – 4110a)
- § 4101 -   Definitions
- § 4102 -   Agreements regulated
- § 4103 -   Supplier's disclosure to dealer
- § 4104 -   Supplier's right to terminate agreement
- § 4105 -   Repurchase by supplier upon termination
- § 4106 -   Dealer trade associations
- § 4107 -   Dealer's action for damages; attorneys fees
- § 4108 -   Void agreement provisions
- § 4109 -   Limitation of actions
- § 4110 -   Gasoline and diesel fuel prices
- § 4110a -   Gasoline service to disabled persons
Chapter 110 - PETROLEUM INVENTORIES; REPORTING REQUIREMENTS (Contains: §§ 4111 – 4115)
- § 4111 -   Definitions
- § 4112 -   Duty of department of public service
- § 4113 -   Inventory reporting; confidentiality
- § 4114 -   Remedies; enforcements
- § 4115 -   Liquid heating fuel; heating system change
Chapter 111 - FOREIGN-TRADE ZONES (Contains: §§ 4121 – 4122)
- § 4121 -   Definitions
- § 4122 -   Authority to establish foreign-trade zones
Chapter 112 - EMERGENCY PETROLEUM SET-ASIDE ACT (Contains: §§ 4131 – 4134)
- § 4131 -   Purpose and findings
- § 4132 -   Definitions
- § 4133 -   Petroleum set-aside
- § 4134 -   Violation; penalties
Chapter 113 - COMMERCIAL MOLDS, DIES AND FORMS (Contains: §§ 4151 – 4155)
- § 4151 -   Definitions
- § 4152 -   Exclusions
- § 4153 -   Ownership rights
- § 4155 -   Manufacturer's mold lien
Chapter 115 - NEW MOTOR VEHICLE ARBITRATION (Contains: §§ 4170 – 4181)
- § 4170 -   Legislative intent
- § 4171 -   Definitions
- § 4172 -   Enforcement of warranties
- § 4173 -   Procedure to obtain refund or replacement
- § 4174 -   Vermont motor vehicle arbitration board
- § 4175 -   Fees and costs
- § 4176 -   Appeal from board
- § 4177 -   Unfair and deceptive acts and practices
- § 4178 -   Limitations
- § 4179 -   Effective date; limitations
- § 4180 -   Notification to consumers
- § 4181 -   Sale of defective motor vehicles
Chapter 131 - SECURITIES ACT (Contains: §§ 3921 – 4225a)
- § 3921 -   4201 Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4202 -   Repealed. 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.
- § 4202a -   Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4203 -   Repealed. 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.
- § 4203a -   Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4204 -   Repealed. 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.
- § 4204a -   4204a-4208. Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4209 -   Repealed. 1993, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), § 18(a).
- § 4209a -   Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4210 -   Repealed. 1993, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), § 18(b).
- § 4211 -   4211-4214. Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4215 -   Repealed. 1993, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), § 18(c).
- § 4216 -   4216-4218. Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4219 -   Repealed. 1993, No. 167 (Adj. Sess.), § 18(d).
- § 4220 -   Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4221 -   Repealed. 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 11.
- § 4221a -   4221a-4223. Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4224 -   Repealed. 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 13.
- § 4224a -   Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
- § 4225 -   Repealed. 1989, No. 225 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.
- § 4225a -   4225a-4241. Repealed. 2005, No. 11, § 2.
Chapter 133 - INSIDER TRADING ACT (Contains: §§ 4301 – 4308)
- § 4301 -   Definitions
- § 4302 -   Officers and stockholders; disclosure
- § 4303 -   Penalty
- § 4304 -   Unlawful sales; delivery
- § 4305 -   -Exceptions
- § 4306 -   Arbitrage transactions
- § 4307 -   Federally registered and small companies excepted
- § 4308 -   Rules and regulations of commissioner
Chapter 134 - TRANSFER ON DEATH SECURITY REGISTRATION (Contains: §§ 4351 – 4360)
- § 4351 -   Definitions
- § 4352 -   Registration in beneficiary form; sole or joint tenancy ownership
- § 4353 -   Registration in beneficiary form; applicable law
- § 4354 -   Origination of registration in beneficiary form
- § 4355 -   Form of registration in beneficiary form
- § 4356 -   Effect of registration in beneficiary form
- § 4357 -   Ownership on death of owner
- § 4358 -   Protection of registering entity
- § 4359 -   Nontestamentary transfer on death
- § 4360 -   Terms, conditions and forms for registration
Chapter 135 - UNSOLICITED MERCHANDISE (Contains: §§ 4401 – 4401)
- § 4401 -   Rights of recipient of merchandise or services; definition
Chapter 137 - RESIDENTIAL RENTAL AGREEMENTS (Contains: §§ 4451 – 4469)
- § 4451 -   Definitions
- § 4452 -   Exclusions
- § 4453 -   Obligations implied
- § 4454 -   Attempt to circumvent
- § 4455 -   Tenant obligations; payment of rent
- § 4456 -   Tenant obligations; use and maintenance of dwelling unit
- § 4456a -   Residential rental application fees; prohibited
- § 4457 -   Landlord obligations; habitability
- § 4458 -   Habitability; tenant remedies
- § 4459 -   Minor defects; repair and deduct
- § 4460 -   Access
- § 4461 -   Security deposits
- § 4462 -   Abandonment; unclaimed property
- § 4463 -   Illegal evictions
- § 4464 -   Remedies for illegal evictions
- § 4465 -   Retaliatory conduct prohibited
- § 4466 -   Repealed. 1987, No. 74, § 2(b)
- § 4467 -   Termination of tenancy; notice
- § 4468 -   Termination of tenancy; action for possession
- § 4469 -   Repealed. 1999, No. 36, § 6, eff. February 15, 2003.
Chapter 138 - CAMPGROUNDS (Contains: §§ 4470 – 4470)
- § 4470 -   Campgrounds; removal
Chapter 139 - DISCRIMINATION; PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS; RENTAL AND (Contains: §§ 4500 – 4508)
- § 4500 -   Legislative intent
- § 4501 -   Definitions
- § 4502 -   Public accommodations
- § 4503 -   Unfair housing practices
- § 4504 -   Rental of housing; exemptions
- § 4505 -   Repealed. 1987, No. 253 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.
- § 4506 -   Enforcement; civil action
- § 4507 -   Criminal penalty
- § 4508 -   Repealed. 1989, No. 89, § 10.
Chapter 141 - HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (Contains: §§ 4551 – 4556)
- § 4551 -   Human rights commission; members; compensation
- § 4552 -   Duties; jurisdiction
- § 4553 -   Powers
- § 4554 -   Complaint; investigation and conciliation
- § 4555 -   Information; disclosure and confidentiality
- § 4556 -   Performance standards; audit
Chapter 143 - TRADE SECRETS (Contains: §§ 4601 – 4609)
- § 4601 -   Definitions
- § 4602 -   Injunctive relief
- § 4603 -   Damages
- § 4604 -   [Reserved.]
- § 4605 -   Preservation of secrecy
- § 4606 -   [Reserved.]
- § 4607 -   Effect on other law
- § 4608 -   Uniformity of application and construction
- § 4609 -   Time of taking effect
Chapter 147 - UNIFORM PRUDENT INVESTOR ACT (Contains: §§ 4651 – 4651)
- § 4651 -   4651-4662. Repealed. 2009, No. 20, § 29.
Chapter 150 - SECURITIES ACT (Contains: §§ 5101 – 5615)
- § 5101 -   Short title
- § 5102 -   Definitions
- § 5103 -   References to federal statutes
- § 5104 -   References to federal agencies
- § 5105 -   Electronic records and signatures
- § 5201 -   Exempt securities
- § 5202 -   Exempt transactions
- § 5203 -   Additional exemptions and waivers
- § 5204 -   Denial, suspension, revocation, condition, or limitations of exemptions
- § 5301 -   Securities registration requirement
- § 5302 -   Notice filing
- § 5303 -   Securities registration by coordination
- § 5304 -   Securities registration by qualification
- § 5305 -   Securities registration filings
- § 5306 -   Denial, suspension, and revocation of securities registration
- § 5307 -   Waiver and modification
- § 5401 -   Broker-dealer registration requirement and exemptions
- § 5402 -   Agent registration requirement and exemptions
- § 5403 -   Investment adviser registration requirement and exemptions
- § 5404 -   Investment adviser representative registration requirement and exemptions
- § 5405 -   Federal covered investment adviser notice filing requirement
- § 5406 -   Registration by broker-dealer, agent, investment adviser, and investment adviser representative
- § 5407 -   Succession and change in registration of broker-dealer or investment adviser
- § 5408 -   Termination of employment or association of agent and investment adviser representative and transfer of employment or association
- § 5409 -   Withdrawal of registration of broker-dealer, agent, investment adviser, and investment representative
- § 5410 -   Filing fees
- § 5411 -   Postregistration requirements
- § 5412 -   Denial, revocation, suspension, withdrawal, restriction, condition, or limitations of registration
- § 5501 -   General fraud
- § 5502 -   Prohibited conduct in providing investment advice
- § 5503 -   Evidentiary burden
- § 5504 -   Filing of sales and advertising literature
- § 5505 -   Misleading filings
- § 5506 -   Misrepresentations concerning registration or exemption
- § 5507 -   Qualified immunity
- § 5508 -   Criminal penalties
- § 5509 -   Civil liability
- § 5510 -   Rescission offers
- § 5601 -   Administration
- § 5602 -   Investigations and subpoenas
- § 5603 -   Civil enforcement
- § 5604 -   Administrative enforcement
- § 5605 -   Rules, forms, orders, interpretative opinions, and hearings
- § 5606 -   Administrative files and opinions
- § 5607 -   Public records; confidentiality
- § 5608 -   Uniformity and cooperation with other agencies
- § 5609 -   Judicial review
- § 5610 -   Jurisdiction
- § 5611 -   Service of process
- § 5612 -   Severability clause
- § 5613 -   Collection and disposition of fees
- § 5614 -   Recovery of expenses
- § 5615 -   Philanthropy protection act of 1995