Section 32 – Release of Distrained Animals; Conditions
Section 32. The pound keeper shall not deliver the beasts to the owner until his fees, the amount so demanded by the distrainor for the damages and charges aforesaid, the expense, if any, of advertising, and all other legal costs and expenses have been paid to him.
Section 33 – Notice of Impounding
Section 33. Whoever impounds beasts shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, give notice in writing, containing a description of the beasts and a statement of the time, place and cause of impounding, to the owner or person having the care of them, if known and living within six miles of the place of impounding, by delivering […]
Section 34 – Publication of Notice of Impounding
Section 34. If there is no person entitled to such notice, the person impounding the beasts shall, within forty-eight hours thereafter, post a like notice in a public place in the town and in a public place in each of any two adjoining towns, if within four miles from the place where the beasts were […]
Section 35 – Determination of Amount of Damages in Dispute
Section 35. If the owner or keeper of the beasts is dissatisfied with the claim of the person impounding them, he may have the amount for which he is liable determined by two disinterested persons, who shall be appointed and sworn by a justice of the peace or by the town clerk.
Section 36 – Procedure for Settlement of Claim
Section 36. If the amount for which the beasts have been impounded and detained is not paid within fourteen days after notice of the impounding has been given as before directed, or after the last publication of such notice, the person who impounded them shall apply to the justice of the peace or to the […]
Section 37 – Sale of Animals to Satisfy Claim
Section 37. If the amount so determined is not paid forthwith, the person who impounded the beasts shall cause them to be sold by auction in the town where impounded, first advertising the sale by posting a notice thereof for twenty-four hours at some public place in such town.
Section 38 – Disposition of Proceeds
Section 38. The proceeds of the sale, after paying all damages, costs, expenses and charges for advertising and selling the beasts, shall be deposited in the town treasury for the use of the owner, upon proof of his right thereto within two years from the sale.
Section 23 – Pounds; Penalty for Injuring
Section 23. Whoever wilfully injures a pound shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months.
Section 39 – Escaped or Rescued Animals; Right to Retake
Section 39. If beasts lawfully distrained or impounded escape or are rescued, the pound keeper, field driver or other person who distrained them may, within seven days thereafter, retake, hold and dispose of them as if there had been no escape or rescue.
Section 24 – Duties of Field Driver; Taking Up Untended Animals
Section 24. Every field driver shall take up horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, sheep, goats or swine going at large in the public ways, or on common and unimproved land within his town and not under the care of a keeper; and any other inhabitant of the town may take up such cattle or beasts […]