Vermont · Vermont Statutes — Title 13, Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Vt. Stat. (Crimes) § 3609: Transportation of trees; evidence A person found transporting upon a public highway one or more pine, spruce, hemlock, cedar, or other evergreen trees, under such condition or circumstances as to reasonably justify any police officer or a person from whom trees of such type have been stolen, or his
What this law says, in plain English
A person transporting evergreen trees on a public highway under suspicious circumstances may be stopped and questioned about their origin. Failure to produce proof of ownership, refusing to answer, or giving false answers constitutes prima facie evidence of theft, punishable by up to six months imprisonment or a $300 fine.
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