§ 6301. Purpose It is the purpose of this chapter to encourage and assist the maintenance of the present uses of Vermont’s agricultural, forest, and other undeveloped land and to prevent the accelerated residential and commercial development thereof; to preserve and to enhance Vermont’s scenic natural resources; to strengthen the base of the recreation industry […]
§ 6301a. Definitions As used in this chapter: (1) “State agency” means the Agency of Natural Resources or any of its departments, Agency of Transportation, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, or Vermont Housing and Conservation Board. (2) “Qualified organization” means: (A) an organization qualifying under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, […]
§ 6302. Power to acquire (a) In order to carry out the purposes set forth in section 6301 of this title, any owner of real property located within this State or of any right or interest in real property located within this State may sell, donate, devise, exchange, or transfer that real property or any […]
§ 6303. Interests that may be acquired (a) The rights and interests in real property that may be acquired, used, encumbered, and conveyed by a municipality, State agency, or qualified organization shall include the following: (1) Fee simple. (2) Fee simple subject to right of occupancy and use, which may be defined as full and […]
§ 6304. Sales of land In any case where rights and interests in real property have been reconveyed or leased back to a person by a municipality or a department, the use of land subject in the reconveyance or lease back shall not be changed, and no residential, industrial, or commercial construction except for the […]
§ 6305. Exchanges of land In exercising its authority to acquire property by exchange, a department may accept real property and rights and interests in the real property, and may convey to the grantor of such real property or rights and interests in the real property any State-owned property under the jurisdiction of the department, […]
§ 6306. Exemption from taxation (a) The rights and interests in real property acquired by a municipality or State agency under the authority of this chapter shall be considered as municipal or State-owned land, as the case may be, with respect to taxation and State reimbursement in lieu of taxes. (b)(1) The Commissioner of Taxes […]
§ 6307. Enforcement (a) Injunction. In any case where rights and interests in real property are held by a municipality, State agency, or qualified organization under the authority of this chapter, the legislative body of the municipality, the State agency, or the qualified organization may institute injunction proceedings to enforce the rights of the municipality, […]
§ 6308. Rights in perpetuity unless limited (a) If the legislative body of a municipality in the case of municipal rights or interests, or a State agency in the case of State-owned rights or interests, finds that the retention of the rights or interests is no longer needed to carry out the purposes of this […]
§ 6309. Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets; leases In the event that real property acquired by the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets is leased to a lessee other than a governmental entity of the State of Vermont, the lessee shall be taxed on the fair market value or the use value under the […]
§ 6310. Conservation easement holder; nonmerger If a holder of a conservation easement is or becomes the owner in fee simple of property subject to the easement, the easement shall continue in effect and shall not be extinguished. (Added 2015, No. 51, § F.8.)
§ 6311. Conservation rights and interests; tax liens A tax lien shall not affect conservation rights and interests if the tax lien attaches to the subject property under 32 V.S.A. § 5061 subsequent to the recording of the conservation rights and interests in the municipal land records. (Added 2015, No. 84 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
