§ 4783 - Purchase and sale of big game - Vermont Statutes

§ 4783. Purchase and sale of big game

(a) A person shall not buy or sell big game or the meat of big game within the state except during the open season and for 20 days thereafter.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a person may buy or sell at any time:

(1) the head, hide and hoofs of deer or moose legally taken; or

(2) the head, hide, paws and internal organs of a black bear, legally taken.

(c) Neither anadromous Atlantic salmon taken in the Connecticut River Basin nor wild turkey shall be bought or sold at any time. The meat of big game animals shall not be bought or sold for the purpose of being transported out of the state. (Added 1961, No. 119, § 1, eff. May 9, 1961; amended 1985, No. 92, § 9.)