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.
Subchapter
003
:
LIABILITY OF INNKEEPERS
(Cite as: 9 V.S.A. § 3141)
-
§ 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.