The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
002
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POUNDS AND IMPOUNDING
(Cite as: 20 V.S.A. § 3454)
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§ 3454. Stallions
A stallion found running at large may be impounded. Within 48 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 Superior
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.)