Effective - 28 Aug 1939
271.010. Notice and bond. — No person shall post any animal as a stray until he shall have given thirty days' notice of his intention to do so, which notice shall be given within two days after such animal is taken up. And no person shall take up as a stray any unbroken animal between the first day of April and the first day of November; provided, that any animal which shall have broken over or through a lawful fence and be found within any person's enclosure, may at any time be taken up by such person and posted as a stray. And no person not a householder shall have authority to take up or post any stray animal unless he first enter into a bond to the state of Missouri, for the use of the owner, in double the amount of the value of the animal or animals taken up, with sureties, approved by the associate circuit judge before whom the animal shall be posted.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14498)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12824; 1919 § 4314; 1909 § 815
CROSS REFERENCE:
Domestic animals restrained from running at large, when, Chap. 270
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals
Section 271.010 - Notice and bond.
Section 271.020 - Notice — penalty.
Section 271.030 - Condition of bond.
Section 271.040 - Any householder may take up stray, when.
Section 271.050 - Notice, how given — contents.
Section 271.060 - Duty of taker-up.
Section 271.070 - Notice to be recorded — appraisers appointed.
Section 271.080 - Appraisers — oath — duty.
Section 271.090 - Record of strays taken up.
Section 271.100 - Notice published in newspaper, when.
Section 271.110 - Filing of unpublished notice and affidavit.
Section 271.120 - Nonhouseholder to file bond — failure.
Section 271.130 - Reclamation by owner.
Section 271.140 - Proof entered on docket, certification.
Section 271.150 - Amount for keeping stray.
Section 271.160 - Failure to reclaim, property vests in taker-up, when.
Section 271.170 - File certificate of proof of stray.
Section 271.180 - Charge treasurer with amount paid by owner.
Section 271.190 - Stray book and stray fund record book.
Section 271.200 - Entries in the county stray book.
Section 271.210 - Entries in stray fund record book.
Section 271.220 - Certain names to be appended to the tax books.
Section 271.230 - Responsibility of collector.
Section 271.240 - Delinquent stray list returned.
Section 271.250 - Taker-up may turn stray over to collector, when — effect of.
Section 271.260 - Taker-up not liable, when.
Section 271.270 - Taker-up may use stray, how.
Section 271.280 - Recovery of damages by owner, when.
Section 271.290 - Reclamation by owner before posting, how.
Section 271.310 - Preservation of papers in clerk's office, inspection.
Section 271.320 - Compensation for taker-up — fees of appraisers.
Section 271.330 - Fees for associate circuit judge.
Section 271.340 - Compensation of publisher for notice and affidavit.
Section 271.350 - Fees of county clerk.
Section 271.360 - Penalty for failure to perform duty.
Section 271.370 - Fines, penalties and forfeitures to go into school fund.