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Article 1 - General Stock Law
§ 69-13-1. General stock law - There is declared, created and now in existence a statewide...
§ 69-13-3. Election; ballots - The board of supervisors shall provide for the holding of...
§ 69-13-5. Counties; excepted - The provisions of this article as to holding elections as...
§ 69-13-7. Fences - If two or more adjoining counties shall at an election...
§ 69-13-9. Lawful fence in open range counties defined - In open range counties all fences four feet high, in...
§ 69-13-11. Stock law districts in counties with sea walls - In counties in the State of Mississippi wherein sea walls...
§ 69-13-13. Tick reinfestation - If any county in the State of Mississippi by vote...
§ 69-13-15. Stock taken up; what done - Any livestock as referred to in Section 69-13-1, found running...
§ 69-13-17. Any person may take up stock - Any such livestock as referred to in Section 69-13-1 may...
§ 69-13-19. Owner liable for damages - Every owner of livestock referred to in Section 69-13-1 shall...
§ 69-13-21. How lien enforced - The person taking up an animal trespassing, after two days...
§ 69-13-23. Appeal to circuit court - The party against whom judgment may be given in a...
§ 69-13-25. Case brought in circuit court to enforce lien where over two hundred dollars claimed - If the amount claimed for the damages by animals trespassing...
§ 69-13-27. Owner may replevy animal - The owner of the animal, or person entitled to the...
Article 3 - Livestock at Large on Federal or State Highways
§ 69-13-101. Unlawful for livestock to roam at large on federal or state designated highways - It shall be and is hereby declared unlawful for any...
§ 69-13-103. Responsibility of commissioner of public safety for impounding of livestock; authority of supervisors - The commissioner of public safety shall be placed in charge...
§ 69-13-105. Charges against impounded livestock - The fees, assessments, liens and charges against livestock picked up...
§ 69-13-107. Highway safety patrol to provide equipment or contract with private individuals to remove livestock - The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol shall, in the alternative: Provide...
§ 69-13-109. Description of impounded livestock to be published; form; notice of sale - When any livestock shall have been taken up and impounded...
§ 69-13-111. Owners of livestock roaming at large liable for damages - The owners of livestock which through their owner's negligence are...
§ 69-13-113. State or county not liable for injury to impounded livestock - Neither the state nor any county shall be liable for...
§ 69-13-115. Penalty for removal of impounded livestock without paying fees - Any person who wrongfully removes impounded livestock from the enclosure...
§ 69-13-117. Nature and construction of article - This article is cumulative and in addition to all other...
Article 5 - Highway Fencing Law
§ 69-13-201. Title of article - This article shall be known as the "Highway Fencing Law."
§ 69-13-203. Intent of article - It is the intent of this article to vest the...
§ 69-13-205. Authority and duty of supervisors - The respective boards of supervisors of the several counties of...
§ 69-13-207. Tax; authority of supervisors to levy - The boards of supervisors in said counties are hereby authorized...
§ 69-13-209. Tax; election; use of proceeds; authority of supervisors where tax not authorized - Before said board of supervisors is authorized to levy the...
§ 69-13-211. No reimbursement under Homestead Exemption Law - No reimbursement shall be made under the Homestead Exemption Law...
Article 7 - Estrays
§ 69-13-301. Estrays to be taken up, posted, and ranger notified - When a person shall find any horse, mule, jack, cattle,...
§ 69-13-303. Appraisement and description of estrays - On receiving notice of the taking up of an estray,...
§ 69-13-305. Registering and advertising estrays - The ranger shall keep a book in which he shall...
§ 69-13-307. Estray may be used by taker up - Any person taking up estrays may retain possession thereof and...
§ 69-13-309. Estray suitable for food slaughtered - When an animal fit for food shall be taken up...
§ 69-13-311. Death or escape of estrays reported - When any estray shall die or escape, the taker up...
§ 69-13-313. Estrays to be sold if not claimed - If the estray shall not be claimed and proved within...
§ 69-13-315. How owner may prove and reclaim - A person claiming to be the owner of any animal...
§ 69-13-317. Time allowed owner to claim and prove property - The owner of all estrays appraised at more than fifty...
§ 69-13-319. Owner of estray sold entitled to net proceeds - The owner of any animal sold as an estray, may...
§ 69-13-321. Ranger may seize estray not delivered according to law - The ranger may seize and sell any estray which shall...
§ 69-13-323. Date and amount of sale noted on register and paid to county treasurer - The ranger shall note the time and amount of sale...
§ 69-13-325. Ranger's books open to inspection - The books kept by the ranger for the registration of...
§ 69-13-327. Ranger to administer oaths - The ranger is authorized to administer all oaths and take...
§ 69-13-329. Authority of person other than county ranger as to estrays; fees - A justice of the peace, where there is a county...
§ 69-13-331. Stallion suffered to run at large may be gelded - If any person shall suffer any stallion above the age...
§ 69-13-333. Not lawful for drover to drive animals from range; penalty - It shall not be lawful for a drover or other...
§ 69-13-335. Penalty on ranger for failure of duty - For any failure of the ranger to make out and...
§ 69-13-337. Penalty for violating the law as to estrays - If any person shall take up any horse, mare, mule,...