Title 4
Animals and Animal Husbandry

Chapter 16
Estrays

R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-16-3

§ 4-16-3. Retention of estrays by taker.

Every estrayed animal taken up shall be kept by the person who took it up thirty (30) days. If it is a horse, the person shall have a withe kept about the horse’s neck the whole of that time.

History of Section.
G.L. 1896, ch. 130, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 156, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 186, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 644, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 4-16-3.