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: 24 V.S.A. § 1157)
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§ 1157. Duties of town clerk as to chattel mortgages
A town clerk shall procure and keep a book of records for mortgages of personal property
and shall keep an alphabetical index of mortgagors and mortgagees. The record and
index shall be open to public inspection. The clerk shall record in the book any
mortgage, transfer, discharge, or officer’s return of sale upon any mortgage. Reference
to the volume and page of the record of the mortgage shall be made by the clerk upon
the margin of the record of the return, as well as reference on the margin of the
record of the mortgage to the volume and page of the record of the return. When requested,
the clerk shall give a certified copy thereof on payment of his or her fees as provided
in 32 V.S.A. § 1671 and shall certify the time when the same is received and recorded. Mortgages or deeds
of trust conveying both real and personal property shall be recorded only as real
estate mortgages, but town clerks shall include in their indices of mortgages of personal
property a reference to the record thereof. A copy of the personal mortgage, certified
as a true and correct copy by the recording clerk, may be pasted or otherwise permanently
attached in the record books, provided that space on the back of the sheet to be pasted
is allowed for pasting, and when so done the same shall be deemed to be legally recorded,
or if a person leaving the mortgage for record so desires, it shall be copied into
the records at length by the town clerk. (Amended 1969, No. 40, § 2, eff. April 4, 1969.)