Vermont Quitclaim Deed (LLC Grantor)

The grantor on this deed is not a person: the grantor line carries the registered name of a limited liability company, and the signature line beneath it begins with the word By. This is a Vermont quitclaim deed configured for an LLC grantor, the company-owner build of the instrument that searchers also reach as a quit claim deed, a quick claim deed, or an LLC deed for moving company real estate without warranty.

A company on the grantor line, one person at the notary

The form recites exactly one company grantor, identified by registered name, state of organization, and mailing address, and a numbered section directly after it names the authorized signer, whose title, Member or Manager, comes from the operating agreement. Eleven numbered sections lead to the operative conveyance; the signature block opens with the company's name over a By line, and one acknowledgment certificate in the representative-capacity wording of 26 V.S.A. section 5368(2) completes execution. A single-member company releasing a parcel to a neighboring owner, a family LLC distributing a woodlot to its members as the company winds down, and related companies retitling land between them present the pattern this deed recites. The form is not set up as a deed from an individual record owner, from co-owner grantors, or from a trustee; each of those arrives under a different signing architecture.

Where the signer's authority comes from

Vermont's limited liability company act, 11 V.S.A. chapter 25, sets the framework the deed recites. Land held in the company name is property of the company and not of the members individually, 11 V.S.A. section 4031, so no member's personal signature carries it. Section 4054 makes every Vermont LLC member-managed unless the operating agreement says otherwise, and section 4041 states that a member is not an agent of the company merely by being a member. The act, unlike the uniform act it drew from, offers no recordable statement of authority, so the deed itself does the record's work: its operative section recites that the company acts by and through the named signer in a representative capacity, and that the deed binds the company rather than the signer personally. For a disposition of all or substantially all of the company's property, section 4054(d) reserves the decision for the consent of all members, a statute the guide flags for the single-asset company.

A release without warranty, and no joinder machinery at all

No Vermont statute prescribes a quitclaim form or reads covenants into a deed's operative words, and this instrument states its own terms: the company remises, releases, and forever quitclaims its right, title, and interest as of delivery, promising nothing about the state of the title. Vermont's homestead statute, 27 V.S.A. section 141, reaches a married owner's conveyance of the homestead, and a company has neither a spouse nor a homestead, so the conditional joinder blocks and second certificates that Vermont deeds carry for married grantors have no place on this instrument. One signature, one certificate, every time. Under 27 V.S.A. section 342 the recorded deed holds the estate against the world; unrecorded, it is good against the company alone.

Company transfers and the transfer tax return

The deed records in the land records of the municipality where the property sits, Vermont having no county recording system, and the statewide fee is $15 per page. No clerk may accept a deed evidencing a transfer until a completed Property Transfer Tax Return, Form PTT-172, and the required Act 250 certificate are presented with it, 32 V.S.A. section 9608. Entity conveyances put their own questions on that return: the general rate is 1.25 percent of value plus a 0.22 percent clean water surcharge; the exemption of 32 V.S.A. section 9603(6) reaches a change in the form of ownership with no change in beneficial ownership, the pattern many company reorganizations present; and 32 V.S.A. section 9602 taxes a transfer of a controlling interest in an entity holding Vermont land even with no deed at all.

What downloads with the deed

The package contains the LLC quitclaim deed as a fillable PDF fronted by a non-recorded instructions page, a completed example filled in for a Stowe, Lamoille County pattern in which a Vermont company conveys a parcel through its manager, and a plain language guide covering each numbered section, the ways a grantee may take Vermont title, the authority statutes, the representative-capacity acknowledgment, and the recording and tax steps. The materials describe Vermont law in general terms and are not legal advice.