81-4-107. Procedure when owner unknown or not resident of state -- sale of wire removed. If there is no known owner of such wire within the state or if such owner is unknown to the board of county commissioners, the board may collect and remove the wire at the expense of the county. All such wire or other fencing as in the opinion of the board of county commissioners can be sold at a price sufficient to cover at least the expense of removal and sale shall be sold by the county commissioners in the manner provided by law for the sale of county property, except that notice of such sale need be published only once and need be given only 10 days before such sale.
History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 84, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 3376.3, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 50, Ch. 12, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 46-1406.
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Chapter 4. Containment of Livestock
81-4-101. Legal fences defined
81-4-102. Construction of auto pass not to deprive legal fence of character
81-4-104. Barbed wire fences to be kept in repair
81-4-105. Fallen wire fencing declared nuisance -- abatement
81-4-106. Notice to owner to repair fence -- duty of county commissioners
81-4-107. Procedure when owner unknown or not resident of state -- sale of wire removed
81-4-108. Disposal of proceeds of sale of wire after payment of expense