Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2806 – Sales of unclaimed livestock
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2806
- Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
- Livestock: means cattle, buffalo, bison, oxen, and other bovine; horses, mules, donkeys, and other equine; sheep; goats; swine; domestic rabbits; fish, turtles, and other animals identified with aquaculture that are located in artificial reservoirs or enclosures that are both on privately owned property and constructed so as to prevent, at all times, the ingress and egress of fish life from public waters; imported exotic deer and antelope, elk, farm-raised white-tailed deer, farm-raised ratites, and other farm-raised exotic animals; chickens, turkeys, and other poultry; and animals placed under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of agriculture and forestry and any hybrid, mixture, or mutation of any such animal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2802
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
A. If, after the notice provided in La. Rev. Stat. 3:2804 and La. Rev. Stat. 3:2805, the owner or manager does not appear within twenty calendar days, the deputy secretary of state police or his representative shall proceed to sell such impounded livestock in the following manner:
(1) The deputy secretary of Department of Public Safety or his representative shall advertise in a newspaper of general circulation in the parish where the sale is to take place, the fact of such sale, the date, and the place of the sale. The place of the sale shall be at some public place open to the general public within the parish of impoundment or the nearest sale barn in the vicinity of the place of impoundment and the sale shall take place within ten days after publication of one notice of said sale. The impounded livestock shall be auctioned to the last and highest bidder for cash.
(2) From the price of said sale shall be deducted the fee provided in La. Rev. Stat. 3:2804, the cost of feeding and caring for the livestock at the rate hereinabove specified in La. Rev. Stat. 3:2804 and all expenses incurred in the sale. The deputy secretary of Department of Public Safety shall pay the fee provided for feeding and caring for the livestock and the remainder shall be paid to the office of state police.
B. The governing authority of any parish affected by La. Rev. Stat. 3:2801 through La. Rev. Stat. 3:2807 shall have the right to fence any highway or highways affected hereby at the cost and expense of the police jury.
Added by Acts 1950, No. 443, §1. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 202, §1, eff. July 1, 1955; Acts 1978, No. 528, §1.