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[TITLE 4. Table of Contents]
4-26-1 Dead domestic animals - Duty of owner to bury or otherwise dispose of them - Liability for costs.
It is the responsibility of the owner or other person
responsible for any domestic animal which dies to bury or
otherwise dispose of it within two days after death. If the
owner or other person responsible for such an animal cannot
be found, it is the duty of the county, city, or town within
which the dead animal is found, at such political subdivision's
expense, to bury the dead animal. A county, city, or town
which incurs expense under this section is entitled to reimbursement
from the owner of the dead animal.
1979
4-26-2 Dead animals - Deposit on another's land prohibited.
No person shall deposit a dead animal upon the land of
another person without the latter's consent.
1979
4-26-3 Penalty.
Any person who violates Section
4-26-1
or
4-26-2
is guilty of a class "C" misdemeanor.
1979
4-26-4 Failure to close entrance to enclosure - Class "C" misdemeanor - Damages.
Any person who willfully throws down a fence or opens
bars or gates into any enclosure other than the person's
own enclosure or into any enclosure jointly owned or occupied
by such person and others, and leaves it open is guilty of
a class "C" misdemeanor, and is also liable in damage for
any injury sustained by any person as a result of such an
act.
1979
4-26-5 Adjoining landowners - Partition fences - Contribution.
If two or more persons agree to a fence enclosure or to
the construction of a partition fence, the cost of construction
and maintenance of the fence shall be apportioned between
each party to the agreement based upon the amount of land
enclosed. A person who is a party to such agreement and who
fails to maintain such person's part of the fence is liable
in a civil action for any damage sustained by another party
to the agreement as a result of the failure to maintain the
fence. If a person has enclosed land with a fence and the
owner of adjoining land desires to enclose land adjoining
the fence so that the existing fence or any part of it will
become a partition fence between such tracts of land, the
owner of the adjoining land shall before making the enclosure
pay to the owner of the existing fence one-half of the value
of all that part of the fence that will become a partition
fence; and when one party ceases to improve or cultivate
his land or opens his enclosure he must not take away any
part of the partition fence belonging to him, if the owner
or occupant of the adjoining enclosure within 30 days after
notice, pays for the value of such fence; nor shall the partition
fence be removed if the crops enclosed by it will be exposed
to injury.
1979
