Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3006 – Sale of unclaimed livestock
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3006
- 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 or any such animal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3002
- Person: means an individual or any legal or commercial entity, including a corporation, business trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
- 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.
If after the notice provided for in La. Rev. Stat. 3:3004 and La. Rev. Stat. 3:3005 the owner does not appear at the time specified the sheriff shall proceed to sell such impounded livestock in the following manner:
The sheriff 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 place of the sale. The place of the sale shall be at the court house or at some other public place in the vicinity of the court house and the sale shall be made not less than ten nor more than twenty days after publication of one notice of said sale. Said sale shall be by auction to the last and highest bidder for cash. From the price of said sale the sheriff shall deduct the fee of the person impounding the livestock, the cost of feeding and caring for the livestock at the rates herein above specified in La. Rev. Stat. 3:3004 and all expenses incurred in the sale. He shall pay the person taking up the livestock the fee due him and the person feeding and caring for the livestock the fees provided for such services and the remainder shall be paid into the state treasury.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 399, §1.