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.
(Cite as: 6 V.S.A. § 2776)
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§ 2776. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Consumer” means a customer who purchases, barters for, receives delivery of, or otherwise
acquires unpasteurized milk according to the requirements of this chapter.
(2) “Milk” has the same meaning as set forth in section 2672 of this title.
(3) “Personal consumption” means the use by a consumer of unpasteurized milk for food
or to create a food product made with or from unpasteurized milk that is intended
to be ingested by the consumer, members of his or her household, or any nonpaying
guests.
(4) “Unpasteurized milk” or “unpasteurized (raw) milk” means milk that is unprocessed.
(5) “Unprocessed” means milk that has not been modified from the natural state it was
in as it left the animal, other than filtering, packaging, and cooling.
(6) “Community-supported agriculture organization” or “CSA organization” means a farm
or group of farms each subject to regulation under the Required Agricultural Practices
that as part of the business of the farm stand or CSA organization grow, raise, or
produce agricultural products for consumer shareholders or subscribers who pledge
or contract to buy a portion of the agricultural products of the farm or group of
farms.
(7) “Farm stand” means a site on a farm subject to the Required Agricultural Practices
where agricultural products principally produced on the farm are sold to the public. (Added 2009, No. 62, § 2; amended 2011, No. 39, § 3, eff. May 19, 2011; 2013, No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2017, No. 75, § 13, eff. June 12, 2017; 2021, No. 22, § 1.)