Section 1. Any officer or agent of any society incorporated under the laws of the commonwealth for the prevention of cruelty to animals or for the care and protection of homeless or suffering animals, provided he is also a special state police officer appointed under section fifty-seven of chapter twenty-two C, or a constable, sheriff […]
Section 2. The value or damages, if any, determined under the preceding section, and the reasonable costs and expenses incurred by said officer and approved by the court, shall be paid by the society whose officer or agent made the application for process.
Section 3. If the animal taken possession of as aforesaid has any infectious or contagious disease, or, for any reason, might lawfully be destroyed as an abatement of a public nuisance, that fact shall be prima facie evidence that the animal has no value.
Section 4. Whenever any horses used in any department of any town shall, by reason of disability or disease, become unfit for use therein, the officer in charge of such department, in cities with the approval of the mayor, and in towns with the approval of the selectmen, instead of causing such horses to be […]
