§ 4-15-3 - Impoundment of animals at large on highways. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 4-15-3

   § 4-15-3  Impoundment of animals at largeon highways. – If any horse, neat-beast, sheep, or hog is going at large in any highway orcommon, or on any land thrown open as a way for public travel and used by thepublic for travel, any freeholder or qualified elector or field driver may, andevery surveyor of highways of the town within which that animal is at largeshall, take up the animal and impound it in one of the public pounds of thatcity or town, and every surveyor of highways of the city or town may appoint inwriting a deputy or deputies for that purpose, filing in the office of the cityor town clerk a copy of that appointment.