Chapter 47: Livestock And Domestic Animals

Article 2: Strays

Statute 47-237: Penalties for unlawful acts. If any person shall unlawfully take up any stray or fails to comply with the provisions of this act or uses or works such stray before giving notice or shall drive the same on any premises for the purpose of unlawfully taking up the same, or shall keep the same out of the county when taken up more than five days at one time before sale, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      History:   L. 1945, ch. 226, § 9; June 28.