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: 27 V.S.A. § 1151)
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§ 1151. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Lender” means a person whose name appears on the records of a museum as the person
legally entitled to, or claiming to be legally entitled to, property held by the museum
or, if such person is deceased, the legal heirs of such person.
(2) “Loan” means a deposit of property not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property.
(3) “Museum” means an institution operated by a nonprofit corporation or a public agency
primarily for educational, scientific, historic preservation, or aesthetic purposes,
and the institution owns, cares for, exhibits, studies, collects, archives, or catalogues
property. “Museum” also includes historical societies, parks, monuments, and libraries.
(4) “Property” means a tangible object, animate or inanimate, that has intrinsic, historic,
artistic, scientific, or cultural value, and the object is under the care of a museum. (Added 2007, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)