Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 271 - Strays
Section 271.030 - Condition of bond.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990
271.030. Condition of bond. — The bond required in section 271.010 shall contain a condition that the taker-up will not sell or exchange, take out of this state, abuse or willfully or negligently mistreat, or take out of the county more than five days at a time, any such stray before the legal title shall have vested in him, and that he will deliver up such stray to the legal owner in the manner prescribed by law, and that if the owner does not prove the same within the time limited, he will faithfully account for and pay over the contingent amount due the school fund. When the associate circuit judge shall approve such bond he shall forward it to the county clerk, and on breach of the conditions thereof, the party injured, or any resident of the county, to the use of the school fund, as the case may be, may bring suit thereon.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14500, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12826; 1919 § 4316; 1909 § 817

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals

Chapter 271 - Strays

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Section 271.110 - Filing of unpublished notice and affidavit.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.