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AR Code § 2-38-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-104. Duty and rights of taker-up or impounder

 (a)  (1) Every person taking up any stray animal shall immediately, if the animal is marked or branded, proceed to the office of the clerk of the county court of the county in which the animal is taken up and shall cause the clerk to examine the State Brand Book.  (2) If it is found that the mark or brand upon the animal taken up is entered upon the book, the taker-up or impounder of the animal shall at once notify the owner of the mark or brand, of his or her having taken up the animal, giving an exact description thereof.  (3)  (A) The taker-up or impounder of an animal shall receive a reasonable compensation for his or her trouble.  (B) If the animal is taken from the range where the stock of the owner is accustomed to be kept, the taker-up or impounder shall receive nothing.      (b) No person shall use, work, or exercise any acts of ownership over any animal taken up by him or her until he or she shall have given notice thereof to the county court clerk. However, he or she may ride the animal to the county court for the purpose of giving the notice to the clerk.
AR Code § 2-38-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-105. Certificate of examination

 Upon the taker-up of any animal causing examination of the State Brand Book to be made by the county clerk as prescribed in § 2-38-104, the county clerk shall give to the impounder a certificate of the examination having been made, setting out in the certificate the description of the animal and the marks and brands, or either thereof, and the impounder shall pay the clerk twenty-five cents (25¢) as a fee for the certificate.
AR Code § 2-38-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-106. Posting description of animal

 (a) Upon failure to find any record of the mark or brand of the animal taken up or when the person in whose name the mark or brand is found recorded proves not to be the owner of the animal, the taker-up or impounder of the animal shall put or cause to be put up posters in three (3) of the most public places in the township or neighborhood where the animal is taken up, giving a full detailed description of the animal, stating the marks, age, color, and value of the animal. At the same time, the taker-up or impounder shall deliver to the clerk of the county court a copy of the poster, and the clerk shall at once enter a full copy of the poster in a book to be kept by him or her for that purpose and shall set up the poster upon the courthouse door.  (b) If, at the expiration of ten (10) days from the date of the poster, the animal has not been proved away, it shall be the duty of the impounder to give notice to the nearest justice of the peace of the county of the taking up of the animal. The impounder shall, at the time of giving notice, file with the justice of the peace the certificate of the clerk of the county court of the examination of the record of marks and brands if the animal taken up is marked or branded.  (c) If the animal should be proved away as provided in this section, it shall be the duty of the person proving away the animal to pay a reasonable charge for feeding and advertising the animal if the animal has not been used by the person taking it up. In this case no charge shall be made for feeding and advertising.
AR Code § 2-38-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-107. Oath of taker-up

 In addition to the notice required by law to be given to a county clerk of taking up of strays, it shall be the duty of the taker-up, at the time of giving the notice, to take also an oath before the clerk that the stray was taken up on the farm of the person, or in his or her immediate vicinity, and that he or she had no agency in bringing the stray into the vicinity.
AR Code § 2-38-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-108. Certificate of appraisement

 (a) Every justice of the peace, on receiving notice of any animal being taken up, shall forthwith appoint three (3) appraisers, who shall be citizen householders of the county, to appraise and describe the animal.  (b)  (1) The appraisers appointed shall, as soon as practicable, proceed to view the animal and make out a detailed description, stating the marks, brands, age, color, stature, and value thereof, which description and valuation shall be signed by the appraisers and sworn to before the justice appointing them.  (2) For their services, they shall each receive the sum of fifty cents (50¢).    (c) The description and valuation so sworn to shall be delivered by the appraisers to the justice of the peace, who shall deliver to the person taking up the animal a copy thereof.  (d) The original of the certificate of appraisement of the justice shall, within ten (10) days, be deposited into the office of the clerk of the county court of his or her county.  (e) The justice, at the time of depositing the certificate of appraisement with the clerk for record, shall also file with the clerk the bond required by this subchapter, which bond shall be kept by the clerk.
AR Code § 2-38-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-109. Bond of taker-up

 (a) Every person taking up an animal as a stray shall, at the time of the appraisement, enter into bond to the State of Arkansas, with sufficient security to be approved by the justice of the peace who appoints the appraisers, in the value of the animal. The bond shall be conditioned that, if the owner of the animal within one (1) year from the date shall appear and prove his or her property in the animal so taken up, then the taker-up will deliver the animal or, if the owner should fail to prove his or her property therein within one (1) year, conditioned that he or she, the obligor, will pay into the county treasury one-half (½) of the appraised value, deducting all legal expenses of the animal, stating the amount of the appraisement.  (b) If the animal is a hog, the conditions of the bond shall be that if the owner of the animal, within three (3) months from the date, shall appear and prove his or her property in the animal so taken up then he or she will deliver the animal or that if the owner should fail to prove his or her property therein within three (3) months, then he or she, the obligor, will pay into the county treasury one-half (½) of the appraised value, deducting all legal expenses of the animal.
AR Code § 2-38-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-110. Records

 It is the duty of every clerk of the county court to keep a book in which he or she shall record all descriptions and valuations of animals taken. He or she shall also note on all bonds required to be deposited into his or her office under the provisions of this subchapter the time of filing them and keep the bonds safely for the use of the county.
AR Code § 2-38-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-111. Advertisements to be posted

 (a) The person taking up any animal under the provisions of this subchapter shall immediately make out, from the copy of the appraisement delivered to him or her by the justice of the peace, four (4) advertisements and put them up in the most public places in his or her township and county.  (b) If any person shall fail to advertise any stray according to laws in force, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, an offender shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00), to be recovered by indictment or information in the county where the stray may have been taken up.
AR Code § 2-38-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-112. Publication in addition to posting

 If the animal taken up is a horse, mare, mule, jack, or jenny, the taker-up shall cause a copy of the description and appraisement to be inserted in some newspaper printed in the state for three (3) weeks if the animal is of the appraised value of at least twenty dollars ($20.00). Publication shall be commenced in the newspaper within one (1) month after appraisement. This shall be done in addition to the advertisement required by this subchapter.
AR Code § 2-38-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-113. Payment of expenses

 If the owner of any stray horse, mare, mule, jack, or jenny does not prove the stray according to law within twenty (20) days from the time the animal was taken up, the person taking it up shall pay the county clerk all fees, the necessary postage, and the price of the advertisement. The clerk shall immediately transmit, by mail or otherwise, to the printer a copy of the appraisement of the stray and shall account to the printer for all money received by him or her for printing.
AR Code § 2-38-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-114. Stray pen — Exhibition

 (a) It is the duty of the county court, at the expense of the county, to provide a pound lot or stray pen sufficient to contain all stray horses, mares, mules, jacks, or jennies which may be taken up in their respective counties. The stray pen shall be within one-half (½) mile of the courthouse.  (b) On the first day of the next term of the circuit court of his or her county, every person taking up any horse, mare, mule, jack, or jenny shall take the animal to the stray pen of his or her county and keep it there, subject to the inspection of all persons from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. of each day.
AR Code § 2-38-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-115. Reclamation by owner

 (a) Within one (1) year from the time of the filing of the bond required by law, if the owner of any stray animal shall appear and claim it, he or she shall notify the taker-up; and the owner shall establish his or her claim to the animal before some justice of the peace of the county by such evidence as shall be satisfactory to the justice.  (b) Upon the justice being satisfied of the ownership of the animal taken up, he or she shall make an order in writing requiring the taker-up of the animal to deliver it to the owner when he or she pays the legal costs that have accrued thereon.  (c)  (1) The person having the animal proved and required to be given up by the justice's order shall deliver it to the owner on receiving the amount of cost legally due and shall take a receipt endorsed on the justice's order for the animal.  (2) The order and receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the county court of the proper county, upon the filing of which, the bond shall be deemed to be cancelled.
AR Code § 2-38-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-116. Refusal to deliver

 If any person who has taken up any animal shall refuse to deliver it to the owner on his or her having complied with the requirements of this subchapter, as respects proving ownership of the animal, the owner shall have a right of civil action. If the owner recovers in an action, he or she shall also recover double costs.
AR Code § 2-38-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-117. Compensation for keeping strays

 (a) No person shall charge anything for keeping any horse, mare, mule, jack, or jenny which may be worked or ridden while in the possession of the taker-up.  (b) For the keeping of other animals, or the named animals if not worked or ridden, the person taking them up shall be entitled to a reasonable compensation to be adjudged by the justice of the peace before whom the owner proves his or her right of property.
AR Code § 2-38-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-118. No premature disposition of strays

 (a) No person taking up any animal shall sell, exchange, or dispose of it in any manner nor kill any domesticated cattle, hogs, or sheep until after the expiration of the time that the owner has the right to prove his or her property in them.  (b) Any person violating the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than half nor more than double appraised value of the stray so taken up, to be recovered in the county where the stray may have been taken up.
AR Code § 2-38-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-119. Liability for death or escape of animals

 If any stray animals die or escape from the possession of the taker-up before the owner shall establish his or her right thereto, and if the death or escape is without the fault of the person having the lawful possession thereof, he or she shall not be liable for it.
AR Code § 2-38-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-120. Forfeiture of right to animal

 If the owner of any stray animal does not appear and prove his or her property therein within one (1) year after the time of setting up the copies of the valuation and description of the animal and the filing of the bond required, he or she shall forfeit his or her right to the animal and the property shall be vested in the taker-up of it.
AR Code § 2-38-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-121. Payment and filing required for unclaimed strays

 (a)  (1) Every person who shall take up a stray animal which shall not be reclaimed by the owner within one (1) year shall pay into the county treasury of the county in which the stray was taken up one-half (½) of the residue after deducting all legal expenses from the appraised value of the animal and shall file the county treasurer's receipt for it in the office of the county clerk.  (2)  (A) The county clerk shall charge the county treasurer with all such funds as shall be paid into the treasury; and  (B) These funds shall be apportioned among the several districts of the county as other funds are apportioned.      (b) After the term of one (1) year from the taking up of any animal, if the order of the justice of the peace requiring the taker-up of the animal to return the animal to the owner, with the owner's receipt thereon, shall not be filed with the clerk, or the one-half (½) of the appraised value paid into the treasury, and the county treasurer's receipt filed with the clerk, the clerk shall issue a notice to the delinquent to appear at the next session of the county court for that county and show cause, if any he or she can, why judgment shall not be entered against him or her, in favor of the state, for the benefit of the county.  (c) The notice shall be delivered by the clerk to the sheriff and served by him or her on the person.  (d)  (1) If no sufficient cause is shown, the court shall enter judgment against the delinquent for the amount due the county, with costs, and execution shall issue for it as in other cases.  (2) The cause shall be tried without the necessity of formal pleadings.
AR Code § 2-38-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2-38-122. Judgment for costs

 If any person fails to file with the clerk of the county the treasurer's receipt or the receipt of the owner of the animal for which he or she executed his or her bond on taking it up, although he or she may have paid the amount due on the bond to the county treasurer or returned the animal in question to the proper owner, the court shall enter judgment against him or her for all costs.
AR Code § 2-38-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 2 - Stallions, Mules, and Jacks|§ 2-38-202. Right of person taking up

 (a)  (1) Any person may take up any seed horse, mule, or jack found running at large and, if not claimed within two (2) days, may castrate him.  (2) For this service, he or she shall be entitled to recover from the owner of any horse, mule, or jack, three dollars ($3.00), which may be recovered in a civil action before any justice of the peace of the county.    (b) Castration shall be done in the usual manner, so that the life of the animal shall be endangered as little as possible.
AR Code § 2-38-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 2 - Stallions, Mules, and Jacks|§ 2-38-203. Right to kill certain stock — Notice

 If any horse, mule, or jack is running at large and cannot be taken up, it may be killed, if notice is first put up at the courthouse and at three (3) other of the most public places in the county, for ten (10) days, describing the color, marks, and brands, as nearly as practicable, of the animal and that it will be killed unless taken away and secured.
AR Code § 2-38-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 3 - Animals Covered by Initiated Acts|§ 2-38-301. Running at large unlawful when prohibited

 (a) In all counties of this state where there has been or may be submitted to the people by initiative petition a proposed act prohibiting horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats, or any of them, from running at large in the county and at an election held pursuant thereto, the electors voting thereon have enacted or shall enact such an act, it shall be unlawful from the effective date of the act for any animals, at any time during the year, to run at large and enter in and upon the fields and lands of the county, either enclosed or unenclosed.  (b)  (1) In every case of trespass by an animal described and prohibited by the initiated act, the owner of the animal shall be liable, for all damages it may do, to the person owning crops, to be established and recovered in a civil action.  (2) A lien shall exist against the animal in favor of the person whose crops may have been damaged or destroyed, and they may be sold under an order of the court rendering judgment for damages, to which shall be added any and all costs of taking up, feeding, and caring for the animal, and other costs.
AR Code § 2-38-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 3 - Animals Covered by Initiated Acts|§ 2-38-302. Penalty for failing to take up trespassing animals

 (a)  (1) Any owner of an animal upon receiving notice either verbal or otherwise that the animal is at large and trespassing upon the land, premises, and crops of another person shall immediately take up the animal and thereafter confine it so that further depredations and damages shall be avoided.  (2)  (A) If for twenty-four (24) hours after notification being given to him or her, the owner shall fail, neglect, or refuse to take up the animal upon being notified that his or her animal is running at large and trespassing, the owner shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined a sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).  (B) Each day the animal continues to run at large shall constitute a separate offense.      (b) When any initiated act duly adopted by the electors as provided prescribes penalties, the penalties of this section shall be cumulative and in addition to the penalties prescribed by the initiated act.
AR Code § 2-38-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 3 - Animals Covered by Initiated Acts|§ 2-38-303. Notice to owners of hogs and goats

 Hogs and goats when permitted to run at large are especially destructive of growing and unharvested crops of corn, oats, other small grains, and of winter cover crops; they are especially difficult and often practically impossible to catch and take up when preying upon these crops. To protect these crops, the animals must be removed or their destructiveness stopped without long delay. Therefore, a notice of twenty-four (24) hours shall be deemed sufficient to enable the owners of these animals to take up and confine them, the notice being sufficient if given verbally or otherwise to the owner, his or her agent, or his or her servant. If these animals are not taken up and confined, any person interested in the preservation of the crops either as landlord, tenant, cropper, or the agent or servant of either of them, may kill and destroy any offending hogs or goats and shall not be liable in damages for, or for the value of, the destroyed animals to any person because of having done so.
AR Code § 2-38-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 4 - Animals on Public Highways|§ 2-38-401. Purpose

 It is the purpose of this subchapter to provide for more effective enforcement of the prohibition against cattle, horses, mules, hogs, sheep, or goats being allowed to run at large along or on any public highway in the State of Arkansas in violation of § 5-62-122.
AR Code § 2-38-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 4 - Animals on Public Highways|§ 2-38-402. Duty to impound

 It is the duty of the Department of Arkansas State Police and the sheriffs of the respective counties to restrain and impound any cattle, horses, mules, hogs, sheep, or goats found running at large along or on any public highway in the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 2-38-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 2 - Agriculture|Subtitle 3 - Livestock|Chapter 38 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying|Subchapter 4 - Animals on Public Highways|§ 2-38-403. Enclosures

 It is the duty of the county court of each county to provide an appropriate enclosure at the county farm or at some other place within the county for the impounding of cattle, horses, mules, hogs, sheep, or goats found running at large along or on any public highway in this state.