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: 14 V.S.A. § 683)
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§ 683. Escheat, proceeds from sale
If sufficient cause is not shown to the contrary, at the time appointed for that purpose,
the court shall order and decree that the estate of the deceased in the State, after
the payment of just debts and charges, shall escheat. The court shall assign the personal
estate to the town where the deceased was last an inhabitant in the State and the
real estate to the towns in which the same is situated. If he or she were never an
inhabitant of the State, the whole estate shall be assigned to the towns where the
same is located. The estate shall be for the use of schools in the towns respectively
and shall be managed and disposed of like other property appropriated to the use of
the town school districts. Any property decreed to a town by virtue of this chapter
or subsequently conveyed to an incorporated school district within the town for the
use of its schools may be sold without restriction, provided the proceeds shall be
expended for the use of the schools of the town. (Amended 2017, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)