Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.010. Notice and bond. — No person shall post any animal as a stray until he shall have given thirty days’ notice of his intention to do so, which notice shall be given within two days after such animal is taken up. And no person shall take up as a […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.020. Notice — penalty. — If any animal liable to be taken up be found on any plantation on the fifteenth day of December of any year or on any day thereafter until the fifteenth day of April following, the occupant thereof shall cause notice of such stray to be […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1990 271.030. Condition of bond. — The bond required in section 271.010 shall contain a condition that the taker-up will not sell or exchange, take out of this state, abuse or willfully or negligently mistreat, or take out of the county more than five days at a time, any such stray […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.040. Any householder may take up stray, when. — If any horse, mule or ass, liable to be taken up, be found on any plantation, and the occupant thereof refuse to take up the same, any householder of the county may give said occupant five days’ notice, in writing of […]
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 271.050. Notice, how given — contents. — The notice required in section 271.010 shall be given by setting up written or printed handbills in three of the most public places in the township in which the property is taken up, and by forwarding a copy of such notice to the […]
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 271.060. Duty of taker-up. — If no person claim and prove said stray within the time limited in section 271.050, the taker-up shall go before some associate circuit judge of the county and file a copy of the notice given by him, as prescribed in section 271.050, and make affidavit […]
Effective – 02 Jan 1979 271.070. Notice to be recorded — appraisers appointed. — The associate circuit judge shall file said affidavit and notice in his office, and cause the notice to be recorded on his stray book, and shall appoint three disinterested householders to view and appraise the property taken up. ——– (RSMo 1939 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.080. Appraisers — oath — duty. — The appraisers shall be sworn to fully, fairly and impartially view and appraise the property; and their appraisement, embracing a description of the size, color, age, sex, marks and brands thereof, and reciting the fact that they were duly sworn, shall be entered […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.090. Record of strays taken up. — If the property so taken up be appraised at seven dollars or more, the associate circuit judge shall, within ten days thereafter, file in the office of the clerk of the county commission a copy of the entries in his stray book. The […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.100. Notice published in newspaper, when. — If the property be appraised at fifteen dollars or upward, the taker-up shall, within ten days after posting any animal, cause notice thereof to be published in some newspaper of the county, or, if there be none, then of an adjoining county. Such […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.110. Filing of unpublished notice and affidavit. — A copy of said published notice, with the affidavit of the publisher to the effect that such notice has been published according to law, shall be filed by the publisher with the county clerk, who shall preserve the same among the records […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.120. Nonhouseholder to file bond — failure. — No associate circuit judge shall allow any person, not a householder, to post any stray before him, without first filing with such associate circuit judge the bond required by law. And when any person, not a householder, shall appear before an associate […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.130. Reclamation by owner. — The owner of any stray may, within one year from the time of taking up, prove the same before some associate circuit judge of the county, and upon the payment of the fees herein allowed, and a reasonable compensation for keeping the stray, the owner […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.140. Proof entered on docket, certification. — The associate circuit judge shall enter such proof on his docket, and, within ten days thereafter, certify to the county clerk that such proof has been made; but if the appraised value, at the time of the posting, be less than seven dollars, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.150. Amount for keeping stray. — If the owner and taker-up cannot agree in the amount for keeping said stray, it shall be decided by the associate circuit judge before whom the stray is proved, who shall take into consideration both the cost of keeping and the use and service […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.160. Failure to reclaim, property vests in taker-up, when. — If the owner fail to reclaim any stray taken up and posted in accordance with this chapter, within one year from the date of taking up, then the title thereto shall vest absolutely in the taker-up; provided, that if said […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.170. File certificate of proof of stray. — The county clerk on receiving the certificate of the proof of any stray shall file the same, and write in the margin of the record and opposite the amount with which the taker-up stands charged the words “proved and reclaimed”. ——– (RSMo […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.180. Charge treasurer with amount paid by owner. — When the taker-up shall have filed the receipt of the county treasurer with the clerk of the county commission for the full amount which he is required to pay into the county treasury, said clerk shall charge the treasurer with the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.190. Stray book and stray fund record book. — For the purpose of complying with the provisions of this chapter, the county clerk shall keep two books, one of which shall be styled the “county stray book”, the other the “stray fund record book”. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 14516) Prior […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 271.200. Entries in the county stray book. — It shall be the duty of the clerk to enter in the county stray book a correct copy of all entries certified to him by any associate circuit judge of the county in relation to the taking up, posting and proving of […]
