Vermont § 3609 - Transportation of trees; evidence

§ 3609. Transportation of trees; evidence

• A person found transporting upon a public highway one or more pine, spruce, hemlock,
  cedar, or other evergreen trees, under such condition or circumstances as to reasonably
  justify any police officer or a person from whom trees of such type have been stolen,
  or his or her employees, to believe that such trees have been stolen or taken without
  the consent of the owner, such police officer, person, or his or her employees, or
  any of them, may stop the person transporting such trees and interrogate such person
  as to where and from whom he or she obtained such trees and ask such person to produce
  a bill of sale or a writing showing his or her rightful possession of such trees