[Adopted 5-12-2008]
When the owner of any animal or grown fowl which has died knows
of such death, such owner shall forthwith have its body cremated or
buried or request such service from an officer or other person designated
for the purpose. If the owner fails to do so, any Judge of a general
district court, after notice to the owner if he can be ascertained,
shall cause any such dead animal or fowl to be cremated or buried
by an officer or other person designated for the purpose. Such officer
or other person shall be entitled to recover of the owner of every
such animal or fowl that is cremated or buried the actual cost of
the cremation or burial and a reasonable fee to be recovered in the
same manner as officers fees are recovered, free from all exemptions
in favor of such owner.
Any person violating the provisions of this article shall be
guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
Nothing in this article shall be deemed to require the burial
or cremation of the whole or portions of any animal or fowl which
is to be used for food or in any commercial manner.
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Editor’s Note: Former § 83-42, Applicability, was
repealed 12-17-2018.
