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Chapter 386 - Fencing Districts
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 14-386-101. Definition - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
§ 14-386-102. Penalty for leaving gates open, etc. — Damages - (a) Any person who shall willfully leave open or unfastened...
§ 14-386-103. Penalty for stock running at large — Damages - (a) After any fencing district has been enclosed by a...
§ 14-386-104. Establishment of fencing districts - (a) The county court of any county in the state...
§ 14-386-105. Appointment of fencing board, etc - (a) (1) (A) Immediately upon the formation of a fencing...
§ 14-386-106. Appointment of collector and treasurer, etc - (a) (1) (A) The fencing board shall appoint the collector...
§ 14-386-107. Plans for building fence - (a) (1) Immediately after their organization, fencing boards shall form...
§ 14-386-108. Openings and gates required - A fencing board shall provide for openings and gates with...
§ 14-386-109. No boundary fences for adjoining districts - (a) In all cases where two (2) or more fence...
§ 14-386-110. Removal of fence in adjoining districts - (a) In any fencing district or no-fence district created, whether...
§ 14-386-111. Use of existing fences - (a) If in the construction of the fence of a...
§ 14-386-112. Navigable stream as lawful fence - Where the boundary of any fencing district shall lie along...
§ 14-386-113. Assessment not required - If each landowner in a fencing district shall build and...
§ 14-386-114. Railroads subject to tax - (a) Every railroad company, foreign or domestic, doing business in...
§ 14-386-115. Order of assessment - (a) (1) As soon as the fencing board shall have...
§ 14-386-116. Publication of order — Contest - (a) Within seven (7) days from the making of the...
§ 14-386-117. Delivery of assessment to collector - (a) Immediately after making the order, the county clerk shall:...
§ 14-386-118. Notice of assessment - (a) The collector of a fencing district shall, immediately upon...
§ 14-386-119. Proceedings upon nonpayment of assessment - (a) If any assessment made under this subchapter shall not...
§ 14-386-120. Certifying delinquencies in no-fence district - (a) In all instances where county collectors are charged with...
§ 14-386-121. Annual repairs - (a) The cost of keeping a fence in repair shall,...
§ 14-386-122. Control of fence construction - (a) Fencing boards shall have control of the construction of...
Subchapter 2 - Small Stock
§ 14-386-201. Penalty - (a) Whenever a fencing district is established under the provisions...
§ 14-386-202. Establishment of fencing districts - (a) (1) The county court of any county is authorized,...
§ 14-386-203. Lawful fence - Whenever a fencing district is established as to small stock,...
Subchapter 3 - Additions or Consolidations
§ 14-386-301. Addition of adjacent area to fencing district - (a) When any number of owners of either rural acreage...
§ 14-386-302. Consolidation of fence or no-fence districts - (a) (1) All fence districts or no-fence districts created by...
Subchapter 4 - Enclosure by Other Districts
§ 14-386-401. Penalty for animals running at large — Damages - (a) If a majority of the qualified electors voting in...
§ 14-386-402. Petition to establish district - When any number of landowners owning land adjacent to any...
§ 14-386-403. Submission to electors - (a) The county court shall in the same publication prescribed...
§ 14-386-404. Manner of election - (a) Except as provided for in this subchapter, all elections...
§ 14-386-405. Election results - (a) After the county election commissioners have ascertained and declared...
§ 14-386-406. Rejection of proposal - If, at any election held under the provisions of this...
§ 14-386-407. Payment of expenses - All expenses incurred by any official or officer of any...
§ 14-386-408. Navigable river as lawful fence - Where the boundary of any fencing district created under the...
Subchapter 5 - Status and Funding
§ 14-386-501. Construction - This subchapter shall be liberally construed to the end that...
§ 14-386-502. Validation of existing districts - The organization of all fencing districts created and established by...
§ 14-386-503. Money from federal government or private sector - (a) All fencing districts are expressly authorized to accept grants...
§ 14-386-504. Issuance of bonds, notes, etc - (a) (1) Any fencing district, or the fencing board of...
§ 14-386-505. Disposition of surplus funds - When any fencing district in this state has completed all...
Subchapter 6 - Stock at Large
§ 14-386-601. Impounding of animals - (a) Any person finding stock running at large in any...
§ 14-386-602. Return to owner - If the owner shall, within two (2) days after being...
§ 14-386-603. Appointment of appraisers - If the parties interested fail to agree upon the amount...
§ 14-386-604. Sale of impounded animals - If the owner or agent fails to pay the charges...
§ 14-386-605. Disposition of excess money - (a) After deducting the charges and damages as ascertained in...
§ 14-386-606. Duties of treasurer - The treasurer of the fencing district shall keep, in the...
Chapter 387 - Stock Law Districts
§ 14-387-101. Payment of expenses - (a) In no case shall the county be liable for...
§ 14-387-102. Lawful fence - Whenever this subchapter and subchapter 2 of this chapter become...
§ 14-387-103. Impounding stock running at large - (a) If any stock forbidden to run at large under...
§ 14-387-104. Fees for impounding - Any person impounding stock under the provisions of this subchapter...
§ 14-387-105. Assessment of damages - (a) The damages done by impounded stock may be assessed...
§ 14-387-106. Sale of impounded stock generally - (a) If the owner of impounded stock or his agent,...
§ 14-387-107. Sale of stock when owner unknown - (a) If no owner of impounded stock can be found,...
Subchapter 2 - Creation of District — Petition Method
§ 14-387-201. Duty to order no running at large - Upon the written petition of a majority of the qualified...
§ 14-387-202. Filing of petition - (a) When the qualified electors of any county, or subdivision...
§ 14-387-203. Deposit for costs, etc - (a) The county court, after the filing of a petition...
§ 14-387-204. Notice of filing petition - (a) (1) After the filing of the petition as provided...
§ 14-387-205. Order prohibiting stock running at large - (a) (1) At the next regular term of the county...
§ 14-387-206. Setting aside of order - (a) (1) Whenever any county or subdivision has availed itself...
Subchapter 3 - Creation of District — Election Method
§ 14-387-301. Order for election - (a) Whenever twenty-five percent (25%) of the qualified electors of...
§ 14-387-302. Form of ballot - There shall be written or printed on each ballot voted...
§ 14-387-303. Result of election - If a majority of the legal voters voting for and...
§ 14-387-304. Effect of approval - When the required percent of the qualified electors and the...
§ 14-387-305. Taking up of strays - (a) Whenever the provisions of this subchapter shall have been...
§ 14-387-306. Exemption of townships from district - (a) A majority of the legal electors residing within the...
Subchapter 4 - Addition of Townships to District
§ 14-387-401. Authority and procedure generally - (a) In all counties in this state where a majority...
Subchapter 5 - Exemption of Townships in District Including Entire County
§ 14-387-501. Authority and procedure generally - (a) In any county in this state where any law...
§ 14-387-502. Effect of exemption - (a) The livestock mentioned in § 14-387-501 shall be kept...
Subchapter 6 - Stock Marshals
§ 14-387-601. Provisions cumulative - This subchapter is cumulative of existing laws and shall not...
§ 14-387-602. Appointment - The county judges of the respective counties, upon written petition...
§ 14-387-603. Authority - (a) (1) Any person appointed stock marshal shall have authority...
Subchapter 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 14-387-701. Certain counties excepted - Sections 14-387-301 — 14-387-306, and 14-386-701 — 14-386-706 shall not...
§ 14-387-702. Other provisions cumulative - All laws and parts of laws that are in force...
§ 14-387-703. Adding townships to stock district - Whenever three (3) or more townships shall have been formed...
§ 14-387-704. Fence not required — Exception - It shall not be necessary for any person to fence...
§ 14-387-705. Driving of animals permitted - Nothing in §§ 14-387-301 — 14-387-306, and 14-387-701 — 14-387-706...
§ 14-387-706. Damages and compensation for taking up strays - (a) If the owner or keeper of the stock restrained...