Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 2410

  • buyer: means a person who buys or agrees to buy goods from a retail seller in a retail installment transaction, or who obtains services or agrees to have services furnished or rendered from a retail seller in a retail installment transaction. See
  • gender identity: means an individual's actual or perceived gender identity, or gender-related characteristics intrinsically related to an individual's gender or gender-identity, regardless of the individual's assigned sex at birth. See
  • Retail charge agreement: means an agreement other than a retail installment contract that prescribed the terms of retail installment transactions that may be made thereafter from time to time under it, under which the buyer's total unpaid balance under the agreement, whenever incurred, is payable in one or more deferred installments and under the terms of which the retail buyer pays a price that includes a charge as limited by section 2406 of this title, which charge is to be computed in relation to the buyer's unpaid balance from time to time. See
  • seller: means a person regularly and principally engaged in a business of selling goods to retail buyers. See
  • sexual orientation: means female or male homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality. See

§ 2410. Prohibition on discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, age, or disability

No seller shall discriminate against any buyer or prospective buyer who desires to establish a retail installment contract or retail charge agreement because of the sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, age, or disability of the buyer. (Added 1973, No. 130 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 1989, No. 122, § 23, eff. June 30, 1989; 1991, No. 135 (Adj. Sess.), § 9; 2007, No. 41, § 12; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 29.)