Code of Alabama - Title 3: Animals - Section 3-5-14 - Authority of municipalities to adopt ordinances; municipal ordinances not repealed

Section 3-5-14 - Authority of municipalities to adopt ordinances; municipal ordinances not repealed.

(a) The governing bodies of all cities or towns may adopt all such ordinances and laws as shall be necessary to prevent the running at large within the limits of the municipality of all livestock or animals and to take up and impound all such livestock or animals found so running at large and to fix, prescribe and provide for the collection of penalties and impounding fees for all such livestock or animals so taken up and impounded.

(b) This chapter shall not be construed to repeal any municipal stock law.

(Code 1907, §5898; Code 1923, §10224; Acts 1939, No. 368, p. 487; Code 1940, T. 3, §§94, 101.)

Last modified: May 3, 2021