Indiana § 32-26-1-25 - Stock roving within enclosed area

§ 32-26-1-25. Stock roving within enclosed area

Sec. 25. (a) Any stock found roving about in the enclosed area contrary to the laws or regulations of the association shall be taken up and impounded at the expense of the owner. The poundkeeper shall:

(1) if the owner is known, notify the owner, in writing, of the impounding of the stock; or

(2) if the owner is unknown, post for ten (10) days a written or printed description of the stock at the public gates of the association and three (3) other public places in the township where the fence is located.

(b) If, after the expiration of ten (10) days, the owner fails to reclaim and pay the expenses of keeping and posting the stock and the damages caused by the stock to any owner or occupant of land in the area, the stock shall, upon ten (10) days further notice, be sold to pay the expenses and damages.

(c) If, after payment for the stock, there is a remaining balance, the balance shall be deposited in the treasury of the association for the benefit of the owner. If no claim is made for the remaining balance for six (6) months, it shall vest in the association.

[Pre-2002 Recodification Citation: 32-10-1-25.]

As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.11.

IC 32-26-2Chapter 2. Enclosures, Trespassing Animals, and Partition Fences

32-26-2-1Lawful fences 32-26-2-2Domestic animal breaking into enclosure 32-26-2-3Tender of costs and damages; confession of judgment 32-26-2-4Strays; confining domestic animal 32-26-2-5Notice to owner; confining domestic animal 32-26-2-6Examination and assessment of damages 32-26-2-7Notice or advertisement of confined domestic animal 32-26-2-8Owner demanding trespassing stray from confiner 32-26-2-9Trial; owner controverting damages or denying trespass 32-26-2-10Jury trial 32-26-2-11Damages and costs; payment before recovering property 32-26-2-12Judgment; trespass not committed by animal confined 32-26-2-13Sale of trespassing strays; retention of damages and costs 32-26-2-14Release of trespassing animal; fence not lawful 32-26-2-15Existing fence becoming partition fence; compensation 32-26-2-16Existing fence becoming partition fence; action for payment 32-26-2-17Joining fence to fence of another 32-26-2-18Notice; intention to remove partition fence 32-26-2-19Removal of fence erected on land of another; damages 32-26-2-20Removal of fence erected on land of another; safeguarding crops