Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 271 - Strays
Section 271.060 - Duty of taker-up.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979
271.060. Duty of taker-up. — If no person claim and prove said stray within the time limited in section 271.050, the taker-up shall go before some associate circuit judge of the county and file a copy of the notice given by him, as prescribed in section 271.050, and make affidavit that the animal or animals was or were taken up on his plantation or the plantation of another, as the case may be, and that the marks and brands have not to his knowledge been changed since the same was or were taken up; that he set up or caused to be set up three notices containing a description of the property in three public places in the township where the property was taken up, and also forwarded a copy of such notice to the county clerk thirty days previous to filing this affidavit, and that the notice herewith filed is a true copy of those set up and forwarded to the county clerk.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14503, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12829; 1919 § 4319; 1909 § 820
Effective 1-02-79

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Section 271.110 - Filing of unpublished notice and affidavit.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.