Missouri § 270.200 - Prohibiting aged and deformed animals from running at large.
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§ 270.200. Prohibiting aged and deformed animals from running at large.
In all counties and townships that have adopted or may hereafter adopt the provisions of this chapter, every owner or other person having the legal care of any domestic animal of the species enumerated in section 270.010, who shall knowingly and purposely refuse to restrain the same from running at large, when its age, deformity, blindness or other infirmity would render nugatory the law providing for the sale thereof to pay costs and damages to any party who might take up said animal, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding ten days.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14483)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12817; 1919 § 3657; 1909 § 4862
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Section 270.200 ("Prohibiting aged and deformed animals from running at large.") is part of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, the codified statutory law of Missouri. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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