(a) Within three (3) months from the time of notification required by law, if the owner of any stray livestock shall appear and claim it, he or she shall notify the impounder; and the owner shall establish his or her claim to the livestock before a court of competent jurisdiction.(b) Upon the court being satisfied of the ownership of the impounded livestock, the court shall make an order in writing requiring the impounder to release it to the owner when he or she pays the legal costs that have accrued thereon.(c) The impounder of the livestock shall release it to the owner on receiving the amount of cost legally due.Amended by Act 2023, No. 594,§ 1, eff. 8/1/2023.Rev. Stat., ch. 58, §§ 14-16; Acts 1842, § 1, p. 25; C. & M. Dig., §§ 288-290; Pope's Dig., §§ 302-304; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 78-1121 -- 78-1123.
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