Title 03 — Agriculture, Animals, and Food
23 chapters · 143 sections in this title.
AS 03.35.010 Establishment of controlled livestock districts; prohibition against animals at large.
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(a) A district judge may establish a controlled livestock district within a municipality or in other settled areas of the state, as provided in this chapter, to consist of a contiguous area of not less than 1,280 acres. (b) The owner and the person having custody and control of a…
AS 03.35.020 Petition for establishment, addition, elimination, or dissolution.
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(a) A controlled livestock district may be established upon petition of not less than 60 percent of the resident owners and lessees of the land within the area to be included in the district who own or lease 30 percent of the land described in the petition. The petition must cont…
AS 03.35.030 Notice, hearing, and order.
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Upon receipt of a petition for the establishment, addition, elimination, or dissolution of a controlled livestock district, the district judge shall set a time for hearing the petition not less than 30 days after its receipt. Notice of the time and place of the hearing and its pu…
AS 03.35.035 Identification of domestic animals within controlled livestock district.
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(a) Within 60 days of the establishment of a controlled livestock district or of the addition to an established controlled livestock district under AS 03.35.010, the person having custody and control of domestic animals located within the district shall identify the animals under…
AS 03.35.040 Liability for damages; lien.
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(a) The owner of land within a controlled livestock district, whether the land is fenced or unfenced, is entitled to recover, from the owner or person having custody and control of a domestic animal, for any injury done by the animal when grazing or running at large within a cont…
AS 03.35.050 Impounding and public sale of animals running at large.
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The owner of any land within a controlled livestock district may impound a domestic animal trespassing upon that land and keep the animal until damages, together with reasonable charges for keeping and feeding it, are paid. Within 24 hours after impounding an animal, the person i…
AS 03.35.055 Public auction.
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(a) Before the sale of the animal at public auction, notice of the sale shall be given by the impounder by posting a written or printed notice of the time and place of sale in a public place nearest to the enclosure of the impounded animal not less than 10 days before the day of …
AS 03.35.060 Penalty for removing impounded animal. [Repealed, § 21 ch 166 SLA 1978.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 03.35.070 Definitions.
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As used in this chapter, (1) “domestic animal” includes goats, sheep, cattle, horses, and swine; (2) “owner of land” includes a freeholder, tenant, contract vendee, or other person in actual possession of land.