Vt. Stat. tit. 12 § 5791 : COURT PROCEDURE — PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS — LIMITATIONS ON LANDOWNER LIABILITY — Purpose TEXT PDF The purpose of this chapter is to encourage owners to make their land and water available to the public for no consideration for recreational uses by clearly establishing a rule that an owner shall have no greater duty of care to a person who, without consideration, enters or goes upon the owner's land for a recreational use than the owner would have to a trespasser. 12 V.S.A. § 5791 Added 1997, No. 110 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.