§ 4-15-1. Municipal pounds. Every town or city may maintain at its own charge one or more public pounds, for the impounding of horses, mules, neat-cattle, sheep, goats, geese, hogs, and asses and for the securing of those animals agreeable to law in some convenient place or places in that town or city. History of […]
§ 4-15-10. Delivery of unclaimed animal to city or town treasurer. If no owner appears within five (5) days from the date of notification, or notice, and pays the penalty and charges, the poundkeeper shall deliver the animal to the city or town treasurer of the city or town, with a statement, in writing, of […]
§ 4-15-11. Sale of unclaimed animals — Disposition of proceeds. If the city or town treasurer finds the proceedings of the poundkeeper correct, he or she shall sell the animal at public auction, after giving reasonable notice of the sale, and shall, out of the proceeds of the sale, pay the incidental expenses of the […]
§ 4-15-12. Conveyances found with impounded animals. If any horse or other animal, attached to any vehicle, sledge, or sleigh, is found at large, abandoned, or with no person in charge of the animal, upon any highway or common, or on any land thrown open as a way for public travel and used by the […]
§ 4-15-13. Application of chapter to goats and geese. If any city or town votes to extend the provisions of this chapter to goats and to geese going at large within its limits, those goats and geese shall subject their owner to the same obligations and duties and shall themselves be disposed of in the […]
§ 4-15-14. Fees and penalties for goats and geese. The fees of the poundkeeper for receiving goats shall be four cents (4¢) each, and for receiving geese two cents (2¢) each, and the penalty shall be twenty cents (20¢) for each goat and five cents (5¢) for each goose. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 128, […]
§ 4-15-15. Veterinarian’s emergency treatment of animals — Immunity from liability. (a) Any licensed veterinarian of this state has the right to treat any animal which has become injured upon any public highway of this state or upon any public or private property of this state which is transported to that veterinarian by any person. […]
§ 4-15-16. Use of the terms owner or guardian. Wherever the word “owner” shall appear in this chapter it shall also mean and may be interchanged with the word “guardian” as defined in § 4-1-1. History of Section.P.L. 2001, ch. 72, § 8.
§ 4-15-2. Appointment of field drivers. The town and city councils of the several towns and cities may appoint one or more field drivers for their cities and towns, with the same power to impound animals as the freeholders and qualified voters of the cities and towns. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 40, § 6; […]
§ 4-15-3. Impoundment of animals at large on highways. If any horse, neat-beast, sheep, or hog is going at large in any highway or common, or on any land thrown open as a way for public travel and used by the public for travel, any freeholder or qualified elector or field driver may, and every […]
§ 4-15-4. Grazing animals deemed at large. Every horse, neat-beast, sheep, or hog which feeds or grazes upon any highway or common, or on any land thrown open as a way for public travel and used by the public for travel, is deemed to be going at large. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 128, § […]
§ 4-15-5. Animals in private ways in Newport. Horses, neat-cattle, sheep, and hogs are deemed to be at large within the meaning of this chapter within the limits of any private way in the city of Newport, without the consent of the owners of the fee in that private way, and that private way, for […]
§ 4-15-6. Care of impounded animals. The keeper of any pound in which any animal is impounded shall receive, keep, and feed the animal in that pound and he or she shall and may milk any impounded cow for his or her own use. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 128, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. […]
§ 4-15-7. Fees paid to poundkeeper. (a) The owner of any impounded animal shall not take the animal out of the pound until he or she first pays to the poundkeeper, the expenses of keeping that animal, no regard being had to the milk derived from the animal, and the fees of the poundkeeper for […]
§ 4-15-8. Disposition of penalties. The poundkeeper shall pay one half (½) of every sum received by him or her as a penalty, in pursuance of § 4-15-7, to the city or town treasurer of the city or town in which the pound is situated, and one half (½) to the person who impounded the […]
§ 4-15-9. Advertising and notice of impoundment. After any animal has been impounded for forty-eight (48) hours, the poundkeeper shall immediately post up notifications in at least three (3) public places in the city or town with that pound, one of which shall be at or near the office of the city or town clerk […]
