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
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 25 V.S.A. § 202)
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§ 202. Retention of lodged lumber for damages
When lumber, such as spars, masts, square timber, logs, or sawed lumber, put into
a stream in or adjoining the State, and lodged upon lands adjoining the same, or dams
crossing such streams, in this State, is not taken away by the owner on or before
May 1, annually, the owner of the lands or dams may detain in his or her possession
such lumber, until the owner thereof pays the damages sustained by reason of its lying
upon such lands or dams.