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 […]
Section 40 – Penalty for Rescuing Distrained Animals
Section 40. Whoever rescues beasts lawfully distrained or impounded shall be liable in tort to any person injured for all damages sustained thereby and the fees and charges incurred before the rescue; and he shall also be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
Section 25 – Duties of Keeper; Impounding of Untended Animals
Section 25. Beasts so taken up by a field driver or such inhabitant shall be forthwith impounded, and while so impounded shall be furnished with suitable food and water.
Section 41 – Rights of Owner in Distress Proceedings
Section 41. The defendant in an action for rescuing beasts distrained or impounded shall not be allowed to allege or give in evidence the insufficiency of the fences or any other fact or circumstance to show that the distress or impounding was illegal, but if there is such ground of objections to the proceedings he […]
Section 26 – Fees of Field Driver and Pound Keeper
Section 26. A city by vote of its city council, approved in accordance with the provisions of its charter, and a town by order adopted by the selectmen or town meeting members, may establish, and from time to time amend, a scale of fees to be paid a field driver for sheep, goats and for […]
Section 27 – Payment of Fees
Section 27. The pound keeper shall not deliver to the owner any beast so impounded until the owner pays him his fees, the expense of keeping the beasts, and the fees of the field driver, which, when received, he shall pay to the field driver.