Arkansas Code
Subtitle 3 - Livestock
Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 2-38-101. Taking up animals - Every citizen, a resident householder in any county in this...

§ 2-38-102. Range animals - No person shall take up any domesticated cattle, hogs, or...

§ 2-38-103. Place of taking - No person shall take up any stray animal, except on...

§ 2-38-104. Duty and rights of taker-up or impounder - (a) (1) Every person taking up any stray animal shall...

§ 2-38-105. Certificate of examination - Upon the taker-up of any animal causing examination of the...

§ 2-38-106. Posting description of animal - (a) Upon failure to find any record of the mark...

§ 2-38-107. Oath of taker-up - In addition to the notice required by law to be...

§ 2-38-108. Certificate of appraisement - (a) Every justice of the peace, on receiving notice of...

§ 2-38-109. Bond of taker-up - (a) Every person taking up an animal as a stray...

§ 2-38-110. Records - It is the duty of every clerk of the county...

§ 2-38-111. Advertisements to be posted - (a) The person taking up any animal under the provisions...

§ 2-38-112. Publication in addition to posting - If the animal taken up is a horse, mare, mule,...

§ 2-38-113. Payment of expenses - If the owner of any stray horse, mare, mule, jack,...

§ 2-38-114. Stray pen — Exhibition - (a) It is the duty of the county court, at...

§ 2-38-115. Reclamation by owner - (a) Within one (1) year from the time of the...

§ 2-38-116. Refusal to deliver - If any person who has taken up any animal shall...

§ 2-38-117. Compensation for keeping strays - (a) No person shall charge anything for keeping any horse,...

§ 2-38-118. No premature disposition of strays - (a) No person taking up any animal shall sell, exchange,...

§ 2-38-119. Liability for death or escape of animals - If any stray animals die or escape from the possession...

§ 2-38-120. Forfeiture of right to animal - If the owner of any stray animal does not appear...

§ 2-38-121. Payment and filing required for unclaimed strays - (a) (1) Every person who shall take up a stray...

§ 2-38-122. Judgment for costs - If any person fails to file with the clerk of...

Subchapter 2 - Stallions, Mules, and Jacks

§ 2-38-202. Right of person taking up - (a) (1) Any person may take up any seed horse,...

§ 2-38-203. Right to kill certain stock — Notice - If any horse, mule, or jack is running at large...

Subchapter 3 - Animals Covered by Initiated Acts

§ 2-38-301. Running at large unlawful when prohibited - (a) In all counties of this state where there has...

§ 2-38-302. Penalty for failing to take up trespassing animals - (a) (1) Any owner of an animal upon receiving notice...

§ 2-38-303. Notice to owners of hogs and goats - Hogs and goats when permitted to run at large are...

Subchapter 4 - Animals on Public Highways

§ 2-38-401. Purpose - It is the purpose of this subchapter to provide for...

§ 2-38-402. Duty to impound - It is the duty of the Department of Arkansas State...

§ 2-38-403. Enclosures - It is the duty of the county court of each...

§ 2-38-404. Delivery to enclosure - (a) Any member of the Department of Arkansas State Police...

§ 2-38-405. Notice of impounding - When an animal found running at large along or on...

§ 2-38-406. Reclaiming by owner - (a) The owner of any animal impounded under the provisions...

§ 2-38-407. Sale of unclaimed animals - If, at the expiration of thirty (30) days after notice...

§ 2-38-408. Disposition of funds - (a) (1) The county shall be entitled to one dollar...

Subchapter 5 - Feral Hogs

§ 2-38-501. Definition - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Feral hog” means...

§ 2-38-502. Capturing and killing feral hogs - (a) A person may capture or kill a feral hog...

§ 2-38-503. Animal health requirements - A feral hog shall be subject to animal health requirements...

§ 2-38-504. Releasing hogs into the wild - (a) Except as provided in § 2-38-502(d), a person who...