Effective - 02 Jan 1979
270.030. Appraisers may be appointed to assess damages. — If the owner of such stock so restrained and the taker-up, or the person damaged by such stock and the owner thereof, cannot agree upon the same, either party may apply to the circuit court of the county where said taker-up resides for the appointment of three appraisers to assess the damages done, or reasonable compensation for the taking up, keeping and feeding such stock, and it shall be the duty of the court to issue a notice to three disinterested householders of the county to appear at such place in said county as he may designate, and assess the damages or compensation as herein required.
--------
(RSMo 1939 § 14465, A.L. 1945 p. 103, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12799; 1919 § 4277; 1909 § 774
Effective 1-02-79
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals
Chapter 270 - Animals Restrained from Running at Large
Section 270.010 - Domestic animals restrained from running at large.
Section 270.020 - When notice not necessary.
Section 270.030 - Appraisers may be appointed to assess damages.
Section 270.040 - Appraisers' oath — assessment proceedings.
Section 270.060 - Lawful fence not necessary.
Section 270.070 - Animals may be driven along public highways.
Section 270.170 - Domestic swine taken up — notice to owner.
Section 270.180 - Proceedings before magistrate for sale — escheats.
Section 270.190 - Domestic geese to be restrained.
Section 270.200 - Prohibiting aged and deformed animals from running at large.
Section 270.210 - Stallions, mules and jackasses not to run at large, when — penalty.
Section 270.230 - May be killed, when.
Section 270.240 - Rams not to run at large, when.
Section 270.250 - Bulls, rams and boars may be castrated, when.
Section 270.260 - Release of swine to live in wild or feral state, penalties.
Section 270.270 - Feral swine, possessing or transporting through public land, penalty.
Section 270.400 - Killing of feral swine, permitted when — violations, penalty.