Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 271 - Strays
Section 271.320 - Compensation for taker-up — fees of appraisers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939
271.320. Compensation for taker-up — fees of appraisers. — 1. For services rendered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the taker-up shall receive the following fees, and no more:
(1) For taking up any horse, mule, ass or neat cattle, twenty-five cents;
(2) For taking up any hog, sheep or goat, twelve and one-half cents; and
(3) For each affidavit filed with the associate circuit judge which shall embrace all strays taken up at one time, fifty cents;
(4) For setting up the notices required by law, one dollar and twenty-five cents; and
(5) For transmitting same to county or other paper for publication, twenty-five cents.
2. Each appraiser shall receive fifty cents.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14529)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12855; 1919 § 4345; 1909 § 849

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Section 271.110 - Filing of unpublished notice and affidavit.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.