Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 9 Sec. 4009

  • Owner: includes successors in interest of the owner and agents of the owner acting within their authority. 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
  • Work: means to build, alter, repair, or demolish any improvement on, connected with, or on or beneath the surface of any real property, or to excavate, clear, grade, fill, or landscape any real property or to construct driveways, private roadways, highways and bridges, drilled wells, septic, sewage systems, utilities, including trees and shrubbery, or to furnish materials, for any of such purposes, or to perform any labor upon real property. See

§ 4009. Owner exclusion

This chapter shall not apply to contracts for the purchase of materials by a natural person performing work on his or her own real property. (Added 1991, No. 74, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.)