§2806. Sales of unclaimed livestock
A. If, after the notice provided in R.S. 3:2804 and R.S. 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 R.S. 3:2804, the cost of feeding and caring for the livestock at the rate hereinabove specified in R.S. 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 R.S. 3:2801 through R.S. 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.
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