Lost something in Vermont? Here's what to do.
A glove on a Stowe lift line, a phone at a Burlington café, a wallet somewhere between trailhead and taproom — Vermont losses have a pattern, and so does getting things back. Here's the playbook.
Retrace, call, report, search.
The desks worth contacting.
Vermont's finder law, in plain English.
Vermont's statute (27 V.S.A. ch. 11, §§1101–1110) is one of the country's most procedural: a finder of money or goods worth $3 or more is expected to post two public notices describing the find within six days. Finds worth more than $10 call for newspaper publication three weeks running, and if the owner hasn't appeared after 20 days the notice is recorded with the town clerk. The owner has 90 days from first notice to claim (paying the finder's reasonable keeping costs); after that the property can be sold at public auction with proceeds to the town. Skipping the notice steps can forfeit the property's value to the town. In practice: hand valuables to the police or town clerk and let the process run.
This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice. See the statute: 27 V.S.A. ch. 11.
One search instead of ten phone calls.
MyQRSearch partners are businesses — inns, gyms, schools, resorts — that log the items they find into one searchable directory. Every Vermont business that joins is one fewer call you have to make.
MyQRSearch doesn't have partner locations in Vermont yet — early partners get founding-location placement in this directory.
Run a Vermont business that finds things? From a Burlington café to a mountain lodge: log found items in minutes and let owners come to you.