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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2451', '§ 2451', '§ 2451', '§ 2451', '§ 2451', '§ 371', '§ 3', '§ 1', '§ 3', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 3']

9 V.S.A. § 2451a. :: § 2451a Definitions :: 2012 Vermont Statutes :: US Codes and Statutes :: US Law :: Justia
Justia US Law US Codes and Statutes Vermont Statutes 2012 Vermont Statutes Title 09 Commerce and Trade Chapter 63 CONSUMER PROTECTION § 2451a Definitions
Chapter 63 CONSUMER PROTECTION
§ 2451a Definitions
9 V.S.A. § 2451a. What's This?
(b) "Goods" or "services" shall include any objects, wares, goods, commodities, work, labor, intangibles, courses of instruction or training, securities, bonds, debentures, stocks, real estate, or other property or services of any kind. The term also includes bottled liquified petroleum (LP or propane) gas.
(c) "Seller" means a person regularly and principally engaged in a business of selling goods or services to consumers.
(d) "Home solicitation sale" means the sale or lease, or the offer for sale or lease, of goods or services with a purchase price of $5.00 or more, whether under single or multiple contracts, where the sale, lease, or offer thereof is either personally solicited or consummated by a seller at the residence or place of business or employment of the consumer, or at a seller's transient quarters, or solicited or consummated by a seller wholly or in part by telephone with a consumer at the residence or place of business or employment of the consumer. Transient quarters includes hotel or motel rooms, or any other place utilized as a temporary business location. The term "home solicitation sale" does not include a transaction:
(2) in which the consumer has initiated the contact and specifically requested the seller to visit his home for the purpose of repairing or performing maintenance upon the consumer's personal property. If in the course of such a visit, the seller sells the consumer the right to receive additional services or goods other than replacement parts necessarily used in performing the maintenance or in making the repairs, the sale of those additional goods or services would not fall within this exclusion;
(5) pertaining to the sale or rental of real property, to the sale of insurance, to the sale of securities by a broker dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or to the sale of commodities by and any person registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission;
(iii) return the goods to the seller and receive a full refund for any monies paid; and
(B) the buyer's right to cancel the order or return the goods without obligation or charge at any time and receive a full refund for any monies paid is clearly and unmistakably set forth on the face or reverse side of the sales ticket; and
(7) solicited or consummated wholly or in part by telephone where the seller offers a full refund and right of cancellation for at least ten days after receipt of the goods or services, and a full refund within 30 days of return of the goods or cancellation of the services or under terms no more restrictive than those set forth in subsections 2454(a), (c), and (d) of this chapter, and the right of refund and cancellation is conspicuously disclosed with the goods or services;
(8) solicited or consummated wholly or in part by a federally-insured depository institution or its subsidiary, affiliate, or parent organizations, or by a public utility regulated by the Federal Communications Commission or the Vermont public service board;
(e) "Business day" means any calendar day except Saturday, Sunday, or any day classified as a holiday under 1 V.S.A. § 371.
(f) "Purchase price" means the total price paid or to be paid for the consumer goods or services, including all interest and service charges.
(h) "Collusion" means an agreement, contract, combination in the form of trusts or otherwise, or conspiracy to engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market division or allocation of goods or services between or among persons. (Added 1973, No. 221 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. June 7, 1974; amended 1985, No. 34, § 1; No. 61; 1993, No. 99, § 3; 1995, No. 23, § 1; 1997, No. 42, § 1; 2001, No. 42, § 2; 2011, No. 168 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. May 18, 2012.)