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. § 1401)
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§ 1401. Acceptance of survey plats; definition
(a) Each town clerk shall accept survey plats for filing and maintain files and indices
to files of survey plats in accordance with this chapter.
(b) As used in this chapter:
(1) “Survey plat” means a map or plan drawn to scale of one or more parcels, tracts, or
subdivisions of land, showing, but not limited to, boundaries, corners, markers, monuments,
easements, and other rights.
(2) “Center” means the Vermont Center for Geographic Information.
(c)(1) Whenever a survey plat that maps the subdivision of a parcel or a change in a parcel
boundary is filed for record with a town clerk, the surveyor who created the survey
plat shall submit a digital copy of the plat to the Center. The Center shall maintain
digital copies of survey plats in a statewide digital repository and make them available
to the public.
(2) The failure of a surveyor to comply with subdivision (1) of this subsection shall
not void, alter, or invalidate the subdivision or boundary adjustment and shall not
render the title to the property depicted in the survey plat unmarketable.
(d) The survey plat filed with the town clerk shall be the official plat of record. (Added 1969, No. 235 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, amended 1991, No. 163 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2019, No. 38, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.)