Vermont Statutes Title 27 Sec. 1156
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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 27 Sec. 1156
- 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. See
- Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
- 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. See
§ 1156. Property vested in museums
(a) If no written assertion of title has been presented by the owner to the museum within 180 days after the date of the third published notice, title to the property shall vest in the museum free of all claims of the owner and any other person claiming under the owner.
(b) A person who purchases or otherwise acquires property from a museum acquires good title to the property if the museum has acquired title to the property under this chapter. (Added 2007, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)