The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1913-03-22
OUR new HERO Law
IS OPERATIVE July Ist
Commissioners Must Establish Stock Districts Including All the Territory
in County, District May Consist Of One Township More
Entire County, 0nefouh Electors Of Any District Can Make
Board Act. Provisions Of Fence Law.

Perhaps there is no law enacted by
the thirt eenth legislative session that
is of more general interest to the set
tiers of southwestern North Dakota than
the new herd law which is given in full
this week. The new law does not
carry an emergency clause and therefore
is not operative until July 1st. The
old law provides that live stock may
run at LARGE from December list until
April 1st.
The new law:
Section 1. (Amendment.) Sections
1888. 1884, 1885. 1886. 1887 and 1888
of the revised codes of North Dakota for
1905 are hereby respectively amended
to read as follows:
Section 1888. unlawful For Stock
To Run At Large.) 1t shall be unlawful
for cattle. horses mules, swine. goats
and sheep to run at large at any time.
except as hereinafter provided
Section 1884. (Herd Law. How and
When Suspended.) The board of county
commissioners of each county in the
state shall establish stock districts in
cludine all of the territory within the
county for the purposes hereinafter pro-
vided. The boundaries of districts so
established shall follow township lines.
A stock district may consist of one or
more congressional townships. or the
entire county may be made to comprise
one district, and all districts shall be
subject to the jurisdiction of the board
of county commissioners for the pur-
poses OF this act. If one fourth of the
electors of any such district, as deter
mined by the whole number of votes
polled at the general election last held
therein. shall file petition in the
ef6ce Of the.countv auditor asking etat
stock be permitted to run at large be-
tween certain dates specified in such
petition, and that the question of per-
mittinR stock, to run at large in such
district between such dates be submit
ted to the voters of said district at the
next general election. it shall be the
duty of the board. within ten days
thereafter, at regular or special meet
ing. to declare by resolution that stock
may run at large within the limits Of
said district between the dates named
in said petition. except within the cor
porate limits of any city or village
but no stallion. jack. boar. ram, bull
or other animals known to be vicious,
shall be permitted to run at laree at
any time. Said resolution shall state
the date of it's taking effect, and shall
be effective to permit stock to run at
large between said dates from and
after the date specified in said resolu-
tion. until said proposition shall have
been vo,ed upon by the electors of said
district. Provided. that the board of
county commissioners may. at any reg
ular or special meeting, when it is
deemed advisable. adopt the resolution
herein authorized without being first
petitioned so to do.
Section 1888. (When Submitted to
Vote.) Whenever it shall have been
declared lawful for stock to run at large
within certain district between speci-
fed dates. then, at the next general
election, but at no other time. said
question shall be submitted to vote of
the electors of such district. The law
eovernink the giving of notices of gen.
eral elections shall govern the giving of
notice for such election.
The ballots used at such election shall
be in the following form, the dates
named in the resolution to be inserted
therein: ~
For stock to run at large between--
Against stock to run at large between.
In voting on, the question each voter
must place at the right of the PROPOSE
tion he favors the mark TX" If a ma
jority Of the ballots cast is in favor of
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letting stock run at large between said
dates. the provisions of chapter a of
the code of Civil Procedure shall not
apply during such period, but shall
apply at all ether times Of the year.
If q majority Of the ballots is against
letting stock run at large. the resolution
Of the board Of county commissioners
declaring it lawful for stock to run at
large between said dates shall be nulli-
fed from and after The canvass Of such
vote, and said board shall not have au-
thority to again declare change in the
Law fot / period Of two years. <,
Section 1887. (When Proposition May
Again Be Submitted..) After the elec-
tors Of any stock district shall have
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