Title 14, Local Government

(a) The damages done by impounded stock may be assessed by any three (3) disinterested householders of the county or subdivision, who shall first take an oath before some officer of the county authorized to administer oaths to view and assess the damages fairly and honestly. (b) …

(a) If the owner of impounded stock or his agent, after being notified of the impoundment, shall neglect to pay the fees and damages, the taker-up of the stock may sell them at public auction for cash, after first giving five (5) days' notice of the time, place, and terms of the …

(a) If no owner of impounded stock can be found, the taker-up may, after the expiration of five (5) days, make an affidavit before a justice of the peace describing the stock and that the owner is unknown to the affiant, which affidavit shall be delivered immediately by the justi…

Upon the written petition of a majority of the qualified electors of any county bordering upon a navigable stream and having territory in cultivation subject to overflow, or any subdivision of a county consisting of not less than thirty-six (36) square miles, where the subdivisio…

(a) When the qualified electors of any county, or subdivision of a county consisting of not less than thirty-six (36) square miles, desire to avail themselves of the benefits of this subchapter and subchapter 1 of this chapter, they shall file their petition, signed by a majority…

(a) The county court, after the filing of a petition pursuant to § 14-387-202 shall proceed no further with the matter until the petitioners, or some of them, deposit with the clerk of the court a sufficient amount of money to pay all the costs, fees, and expenses that may arise …

(a) (1) After the filing of the petition as provided in § 14-387-202, the county court shall make an order directing the clerk to cause notice to be given immediately of the filing of the petition.(2) The notice shall specify:(A) The class of animals it is proposed shall not run …

(a) (1) At the next regular term of the county court after the filing of a petition under this subchapter, the court shall investigate the matter.(2) If, on investigation, it appears that a majority of the qualified electors of the county or subdivision, as the case may be, signe…

(a) (1) Whenever any county or subdivision has availed itself of this subchapter and subchapter 1 of this chapter, it shall be lawful for a majority of the qualified electors of the county or district, as the case may be, to petition the county court to set aside the order prohib…

(a) Whenever twenty-five percent (25%) of the qualified electors of three (3) or more townships in any county in this state, as shown by the election returns for Governor at the last general election preceding the date of the petition, shall petition the county court for the priv…

There shall be written or printed on each ballot voted at an election under this subchapter the following sentences:“FOR restraining (insert the names of the animals mentioned in petition) from running at large □. “AGAINST restraining (insert the names of the animals named in the…

(1) If a majority of the legal voters voting for and against the provisions of this subchapter at the election, whether general or special, shall vote to restrain the running at large of the animals named in the petition, the clerk of the county court shall:(1) Enter on the recor…

When the required percent of the qualified electors and the required number of townships shall have petitioned the county court for the privilege of voting on the question of restraining the animals named in the petition from running at large, when the court shall have called an …

(a) Whenever the provisions of this subchapter shall have been adopted as provided in this subchapter, six (6) months thereafter it shall be unlawful for the owners of any of the animals named in the petition that has been submitted, voted upon, and adopted to permit them to run …

(a) A majority of the legal electors residing within the territory of any one (1) township included in the adoption shall have the right to file their petition with the court within sixty (60) days after the election showing cause why the township should not be included with the …

(a) In all counties in this state where a majority of the area of the county has been created into a stock law district, or where any portion of a county has been created into a stock law district, by an act of the General Assembly prohibiting the running at large of certain desi…

(a) In any county in this state where any law has been enacted to restrain the running at large of horses, mules, asses, cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats, or any three (3) of these animals, by initiated local act, or otherwise, which includes the entire county, any political townsh…

(a) The livestock mentioned in § 14-387-501 shall be kept under such control and restraint as to prevent them from running at large in any other township in the county which has not been exempted as provided for in this subchapter. (b) The owners or keepers of all such livestock …

This subchapter is cumulative of existing laws and shall not prevent any person from restraining the running at large of animals as provided by law.

The county judges of the respective counties, upon written petition signed by fifteen percent (15%) of the voters of the townships, are authorized and empowered to designate and appoint some competent person as stock marshal in any such townships within the county which have vote…

(a) (1) Any person appointed stock marshal shall have authority to restrain and impound any animals found running at large outside the enclosures of the owner or keeper of it in any township which has voted to restrain the running at large of such animals, and shall be entitled t…

Sections 14-387-301 — 14-387-306, and 14-386-701 — 14-386-706 shall not apply to Hot Spring, Montgomery, Sebastian, Sharp, Nevada, Izard, Van Buren, Calhoun, Marion, Howard, Cross, Cleveland, Monroe, Arkansas, St. Francis, Crittenden, Clark, Drew, Desha, Bradley, and Union counti…

All laws and parts of laws that are in force shall be cumulative with §§ 14-387-301 — 14-387-306, and 14-387-701 — 14-387-706, except where existing laws are in direct conflict with §§ 14-387-301 — 14-387-306, and 14-387-701 — 14-387-706.

Whenever three (3) or more townships shall have been formed into a unit for the purpose of restraining any stock as enumerated in § 14-387-301 and shall have been perfected in the way and manner as provided in this chapter, then any other township, or any group of townships, that…

It shall not be necessary for any person to fence against any of the species of animals enumerated in the petition that has been adopted, and it shall be no defense to any action or proceedings brought or had that the party taking up stock did not have his lands enclosed with a l…

Nothing in §§ 14-387-301 — 14-387-306, and 14-387-701 — 14-387-706 shall be construed as to prevent owners or other persons from driving any of the species of animals enumerated in § 14-387-301 from one place to another, or along the public highway, the owners of animals being re…

(a) If the owner or keeper of the stock restrained and the taker-up or the person damaged by the stock cannot agree on the amount of damage, then either party may apply to any justice of the peace where the taker-up resides for the appointment of three (3) appraisers to assess th…