The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 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.
Title 10 : Conservation and Development
Chapter 113 : Game
Subchapter 003 : POSSESSION, TRANSPORTATION, AND SALE OF BIG GAME
(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 4783)-
§ 4783. Purchase and sale of big game
(a) A person shall not buy or sell big game or the meat of big game within the State except during the open season and for 20 days thereafter, provided that a person shall not sell the paws or internal organs of a black bear separate from the animal as a whole unless authorized under subsection (b) as a taxidermy product.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a person may buy or sell at any time:
(1) the head, hide, and hoofs of deer or moose legally taken; or
(2) the head or hide of a black bear, legally taken, provided that taxidermy products that include the paws shall not be prohibited.
(c) Neither anadromous Atlantic salmon taken in the Connecticut River Basin nor wild turkey shall be bought or sold at any time. The meat of big game animals shall not be bought or sold for the purpose of being transported out of the State. (Added 1961, No. 119, § 1, eff. May 9, 1961; amended 1985, No. 92, § 9; 2023, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 21, eff. July 1, 2024.)
