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Timestamp: 2017-11-21 22:49:38
Document Index: 334658384

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 3341', '§ 1', '§ 3342', '§ 1', '§ 3343', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 2', '§ 3350', '§ 4', '§ 2', '§ 34', '§ 10', '§ 3', '§ 1', '§ 3', '§ 3341']

Vermont Animal Cruelty Task Force - VACTF Manual: Chapter 7 - Various VT Laws Dealing With Animals - Chapter 191: Control Generally
§ 3341. Cattle, horses, sheep, goats or swine
A person who knowingly permits cattle, horses, sheep, goats or swine to run at large in a public highway, or yard belonging to a public building, without the consent of the selectmen, shall be fined not more than $10.00 nor less than $3.00. (Amended 1981, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
§ 3342. Public park, common or green
A person who permits cattle, horses, sheep, goats or swine to run at large in a public park, common or green, without the consent of the selectmen, shall be fined not more than $25.00 nor less than $5.00. (Amended 1981, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
§ 3343. Yard of townhouse, church or schoolhouse
A person who turns cattle, horses, sheep, goats or swine into a yard belonging to a townhouse, church or schoolhouse, which is properly enclosed, or knowingly permits them to run therein, shall be fined not more than $10.00 nor less than $3.00. (Amended 1981, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
A person who knowingly turns cattle, horses, sheep, goats or swine into a burial ground, or who knowingly permits the same to run therein, if it is properly enclosed, shall be fined $25.00. (Amended 1981, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
A person who knowingly permits his cattle, horses, sheep, goats, swine or domestic fowls to go upon the lands or premises of another, after the latter has given the owner notice thereof, shall be fined not more than $10.00 nor less than $2.00. Such person shall also be liable for the damages suffered which may be recovered in a civil action. (Amended 1981, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
The owner or keeper of a bull may be fined not more than $100.00 if such bull is more than nine months old and found unattended outside of the premises owned or occupied by the owner or keeper of such bull and shall be liable to a party damaged by such bull while outside the premises of such owner or keeper. The damages may be recovered in a civil action.
(a) Rams shall not be allowed to go at large between August 1 and December 1 in each year. The owner or keeper of a ram shall be liable for damages sustained by a person in consequence of such ram going at large during such time. (b) If during such time a ram is found with sheep other than those of its owner or keeper, and not in his enclosure, the owner or keeper of such sheep may recover $5.00 of the owner or keeper of such ram, in a civil action.
(a) On or before August 1 in each year, the owner or keeper of a ram shall place on its body in durable and legible characters the initials of his name. (b) If a ram is found at large out of the enclosure and possession of its owner or keeper between August 1 and December 1, without being marked as provided in subsection (a), the person taking and securing it may recover $5.00 of the owner or keeper, to be recovered in a civil action. (c) If a person takes up and secures a ram thus found at large with such initials upon its body, he shall give notice within two days to the owner thereof, if known, and if not known, shall post in a public place near where the same was found, a written notice describing the marks upon its body and the place where secured. If the owner, within six days thereafter, tenders or pays to such person $3.00, the ram shall be restored, otherwise it shall become the property of such person.
(a) An owner or keeper of a stallion, more than one year old, who wilfully or negligently permits such stallion to run at large out of the enclosure of such owner or keeper, shall be fined for each instance not more than $500.00 nor less than $100.00 and shall also be liable to a party injured for the damage done by such stallion while running at large. (b) A person who owns or keeps a stallion over one year of age, between April 1 and December 1, in a private enclosure in such a manner as to disturb and annoy the owner or occupant of adjoining premises shall be fined $5.00 for each week he so keeps such stallion after he has received three days' notice from an adjoining owner or occupant to remove such stallion. (Amended 1997, No. 16, § 2.) § 3350. Repealed. 1997, No. 16, § 4.
If a town does not have such pound, a person wishing to impound a beast may use his barn or some other enclosure for that purpose, notifying the owner of such beast where the same is impounded.
When a person impounds a beast, the poundkeeper may require sufficient security to indemnify him for liability for detaining the beast, and for supplying it with food and drink while in the pound. If the person so impounding does not furnish such security within twenty-four hours he may release the beast and deliver the same to the owner or keeper, and the person impounding the beast shall be liable to the poundkeeper for his costs, trouble and expense.
A person may impound a beast found in his enclosure doing damage.
The person impounding such beast, within twenty-four hours thereafter, shall give notice thereof to the owner or person having the care of such beast, either personally, or by a written notice left at his dwelling house. Such notice shall require such owner or keeper to appear at the dwelling house of the impounder within twenty-four hours to appoint appraisers to fix the damage done by such beast.
If a person so impounding a beast does not give such notice, he shall forfeit to such owner or keeper fifty cents for every twenty-four hours' neglect so to do, and shall pay the damages which such owner or keeper sustains in consequence thereof, to be recovered with costs in a civil action.
If the owner or keeper appears, he may appoint one person and the impounder another, to appraise such damage. If such appraisers do not agree, they may appoint a third.
If the owner or keeper of a beast impounded does not, within forty-eight hours after notice thereof as aforesaid, either replevy or redeem the same, he shall forfeit three dollars for each beast so by him suffered to remain in pound, and the same sum for every day thereafter he so suffers such beast to remain in pound, and pay the charges to the poundkeeper. Such forfeiture shall be recovered by the poundkeeper for his use in a civil action. (Amended 1981, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
If the owner or keeper of a beast impounded does not, within forty-eight hours after notice thereof, replevy or redeem the same, the impounder may advertise and sell the beast, as provided when the owner is unknown.
If the owner of a beast taken in an enclosure, doing damage and impounded, is unknown, the impounder shall, within forty-eight hours, post an advertisement in some public place in the town in which the beast was impounded, and in two adjoining towns, describing such beast and stating the time when and place where the same was impounded.
If the owner, within thirty days after the posting of such advertisement, appears and claims the beast, he may receive the same on paying the damages done by it and the charges of impounding, keeping and advertising. If the owner does not appear within the time and claim such beast, the impounder may sell the same at public auction, after six days' notice posted in some public place in the town.
If a person suffers his neat cattle, horses or swine to run at large on the highways or commons, any person may impound them. The owner shall pay the charges of the impounder and poundkeeper, and the poundkeeper shall not release such animals until the charges are paid.
When such animals are impounded, the poundkeeper shall, within twenty-four hours, post a notice in a public place in the town, describing the animals and stating the time and place of impounding and the time and place of sale.
If the owner of the animals, within twenty days, pays the poundkeeper his fees, including his reasonable expenses for advertising and the reasonable expense of keeping, with the impounder's fees, the animals shall be released, otherwise they shall be sold by the poundkeeper at public auction, and the avails shall be applied as in case of the sale of beasts taken doing damage when the owner is unknown. (Amended 1959, No. 262, § 34, eff. June 11, 1959.)
A stallion found running at large may be impounded. Within forty-eight hours, the impounder shall notify the owner or keeper thereof. If the owner or keeper does not, within three days after such notice, pay to the impounder such damages as are assessed by three disinterested freeholders, appointed by a justice of the peace or a district judge of the county, with the costs and expenses of impounding, appraising, and the poundkeeper's charge of $50.00 per day, the impounder may sell the stallion at public auction to satisfy the same, giving four days' notice of the time and place of sale, and the balance, after paying the damage and expenses, shall be paid to the treasurer of the town in which the stallion was impounded, for the use of the owner, if demanded within one year, otherwise to the use of the town. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, eff. Feb. 1, 1967; 1997, No. 16, § 3.)
An animal shall be deemed to be abandoned when it is placed in the custody of a veterinarian, veterinary hospital, boarding kennel, stable or other person or establishment for treatment, board or care and (1) Having been placed in custody for a specific period of time, the animal is not removed at the end of the specific period and a notice to remove the animal within ten days thereafter has been given to the person placing the animal in custody by means of registered mail addressed to the last known address of the person or, (2) Having been placed in custody for an unspecified period of time, the animal is not removed within ten days after notice to remove the animal has been given to the person placing the animal in custody by means of registered mail addressed to the last known address of the person. (1967, No. 240 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Feb. 8, 1968.)
Any person having in his care, custody or control any abandoned animal as defined in section 3511 of this title may deliver the animal to any humane society or society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or in the case of dogs, cats or other small animals to any pound maintained by or for any town within which the animal was abandoned, or he may sell the animal, the proceeds from the sale to be applied to the contractual liability incurred by the person placing the animal. If the person to whom the animal was abandoned is unable to sell the animal, it may be humanely euthanized by any veterinarian licensed to practice in Vermont. (1967, No. 240 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. Feb. 8, 1968.)
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