The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
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Subchapter 001: LICENSING
§ 3061. Issuance and revocation
(a) The selectboard members may license for one year, or a less time, suitable persons
to keep restaurants, or other places dispensing food or drink to the public, and inns
or hotels in their respective towns, and may revoke such licenses granted by them
or by their predecessors when the public good requires it. This subsection shall
not apply to homes catering to tourists, tearooms, or tourist camps.
(b) The judges of the Superior Court may grant licenses to keep inns or hotels in unorganized
towns and gores in their respective counties and may revoke the same when the public
good so requires.
(c) A person who keeps an inn, hotel, restaurant, or other place dispensing food or drink
to the public without a license, when one is required, as provided in subsections
(a) and (b) of this section, shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $50.00. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974.)
§ 3062. Recording of license and revocation of license
Licenses granted by the selectboard members shall be signed by a majority of them
and shall not be effectual until recorded in the office of the clerk of the town.
The expense of recording shall be paid by the person receiving the same, but a charge
shall not be made to the person for such license. If such license is revoked, a certificate
thereof shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the town and notice given
to the person holding the same.
§ 3063. Revocation by assistant judges of Superior Court
If the selectboard members do not revoke a license granted by them when the public
good so requires, the assistant judges of the Superior Court may vacate the same on
application of the State’s Attorney of the county in which such license was granted.
Six days’ notice in writing of the hearing on such application shall be given to the
person licensed. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2017, No. 93 (Adj. Sess.), § 10.)
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Subchapter 002: REGISTRATION OF GUESTS
§ 3101. Registration records
Each keeper of a hotel, inn, lodging house, or roadside camp or cabin shall keep or
cause to be kept a record in which shall be recorded the true name and residence of
each person engaging or occupying a private room containing a bed or couch or opening
into a room containing a bed or couch for any period of the day or night, in any part
of the premises controlled by the owner, manager, or lessee. Each keeper shall preserve
such registration record for three years.
§ 3102. False registration; failure to register
A person shall not write, or cause to be written, or if in charge of the registration
record, knowingly permit to be written, in any such registration record of any hotel,
inn, lodging house, or roadside camp or cabin any other or different name or designation
than the true name in ordinary use of the person registering or causing himself or
herself to be registered therein. Nor shall any person occupying such room fail to
register or fail to cause himself or herself to be so registered.
§ 3103. Penalties
A person who violates a provision of sections 3101 and 3102 of this title shall be fined not more than $25.00.
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Subchapter 003: LIABILITY OF INNKEEPERS
§ 3141. Liability for loss
If an innkeeper or hotel keeper provides a safe in his or her inn or hotel for the
safekeeping of money, jewelry, and valuable papers and articles belonging to the guests
of such inn or hotel and gives notice thereof by posting in a conspicuous place in
the office and public parlors of such inn or hotel the fact that such safe is provided
in which such property may be deposited, and a guest neglects to deliver or deposit
therein any such property to the person apparently in charge of the office, such innkeeper
or hotel keeper shall not be liable for the loss of any such property sustained by
such guests, unless such loss occurs through want of ordinary care and diligence of
such innkeeper or hotel keeper.
§ 3142. Limitation on liability
No recovery in excess of $300.00 for loss of personal property shall be had by the
guest of an hotel or inn, unless at the time of becoming such guest notice is given
by such guest to the proprietor of such hotel or inn that the value of the property
deposited by such guest is in excess of the sum of $300.00 with a statement of the
value of such property and an offer to pay whatever sum may be required by such proprietor
as compensation for the care of such property so deposited.
§ 3143. Loss of samples, apparel, baggage; loss by fire or force
(a) An innkeeper or hotel keeper shall not be liable for loss of or damage to articles
known or used as “samples,” unless such loss occurs through want of ordinary care
and diligence of such innkeeper or hotel keeper.
(b) An innkeeper or hotel keeper shall not be liable to a guest for the loss of wearing
apparel or personal baggage unless such loss occurs through want of ordinary care
and diligence of such innkeeper or hotel keeper.
(c) An innkeeper or hotel keeper shall not be liable for loss in case of fire or overwhelming
force where such innkeeper or hotel keeper has exercised ordinary and reasonable care
in the custody of the baggage or other property of the guest.