Arkansas Code Title 2, Subtitle 3, Chapter 38, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 2-38-101 - Taking Up Animals.
  Every citizen, a resident householder in any county in this state, on finding any horse, mare, mule, jack, or jenny or any domesticated cattle,...
• § 2-38-102 - Range Animals.
  No person shall take up any domesticated cattle, hogs, or sheep running in the range, unless they shall be found within his or her...
• § 2-38-103 - Place of Taking.
  No person shall take up any stray animal, except on his or her own farm or in his or her immediate vicinity.
• § 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...
• § 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 §...
• § 2-38-106 - 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 2-38-110 - Records.
  It shall be the duty of every clerk of the county court to keep a book in which he or she shall record all...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 2-38-114 - Stray Pen -- Exhibition.
  (a) It shall be the duty of the county court, at the expense of the county, to provide a pound lot or stray pen...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 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...
• § 2-38-120 - Forfeiture of Right to Animal.
  If the owner of any stray animal shall not appear and prove his or her property therein within one (1) year after the time...
• § 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...
• § 2-38-122 - Judgment for Costs.
  If any person shall fail to file with the clerk of the county the treasurer's receipt or the receipt of the owner of the...

Last modified: November 15, 2016