§ 2-38-117. Compensation for keeping strays
(a) No person shall charge anything for keeping any horse, mare, mule, jack, or jenny which may be worked or ridden while in the possession of the taker-up. (b) For the keeping of other animals, or the named animals if not worked or ridden, the person taking them up shall be entitled to a reasonable […]
§ 2-38-406. Reclaiming by owner
(a) The owner of any animal impounded under the provisions of this subchapter shall be permitted at any time within thirty (30) days from the date of first publication of notice of the impounding of the animal to reclaim the animal upon the payment of all costs incurred by the county in connection with the […]
§ 2-38-118. No premature disposition of strays
(a) No person taking up any animal shall sell, exchange, or dispose of it in any manner nor kill any domesticated cattle, hogs, or sheep until after the expiration of the time that the owner has the right to prove his or her property in them. (b) Any person violating the provisions of subsection (a) […]
§ 2-38-407. Sale of unclaimed animals
If, at the expiration of thirty (30) days after notice was first posted, an animal found running at large along or on any public highway has not been claimed by its true owner, then it shall be the duty of the sheriff to sell the animal at public sale to the highest bidder after posting […]
§ 2-38-103. Place of taking
No person shall take up any stray animal, except on his or her own farm or in his or her immediate vicinity.
§ 2-38-104. Duty and rights of taker-up or impounder
(a) (1) Every person taking up any stray animal shall immediately, if the animal is marked or branded, proceed to the office of the clerk of the county court of the county in which the animal is taken up and shall cause the clerk to examine the State Brand Book. (2) If it is found […]
§ 2-38-105. Certificate of examination
Upon the taker-up of any animal causing examination of the State Brand Book to be made by the county clerk as prescribed in § 2-38-104, the county clerk shall give to the impounder a certificate of the examination having been made, setting out in the certificate the description of the animal and the marks and […]
§ 2-38-106. Posting description of animal
(a) Upon failure to find any record of the mark or brand of the animal taken up or when the person in whose name the mark or brand is found recorded proves not to be the owner of the animal, the taker-up or impounder of the animal shall put or cause to be put up […]
§ 2-38-107. Oath of taker-up
In addition to the notice required by law to be given to a county clerk of taking up of strays, it shall be the duty of the taker-up, at the time of giving the notice, to take also an oath before the clerk that the stray was taken up on the farm of the person, […]
§ 2-38-108. Certificate of appraisement
(a) Every justice of the peace, on receiving notice of any animal being taken up, shall forthwith appoint three (3) appraisers, who shall be citizen householders of the county, to appraise and describe the animal. (b) (1) The appraisers appointed shall, as soon as practicable, proceed to view the animal and make out a detailed […]