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The original owner of an estray may recover the net proceeds of its sale within 180 days, if required ownership paperwork is provided, approved, filed, and a county voucher is signed.
If an estray is in a perilous condition, the sheriff or the sheriff’s designee may dispose of it immediately without notifying the owner, and the sheriff must file a written report with the county clerk.
Each gardener or farmer must build a sufficient fence around cleared land in cultivation, unless the area has adopted a local option stock law.
A person may not build, join, or maintain a fence around cleared land in cultivation if the fence runs more than three miles in the same direction unless there is a gate at least 10 feet wide and unlocked.
Cattle on a county road are not treated as running at large if the road separates two commonly owned or leased tracts and has an authorized cattle guard that is part of the tracts’ fencing.
Freeholders may petition the commissioners court for an election on whether certain animals may run at large, and the petition must meet signature and content requirements.
The commissioners court must order an election after a petition, and the county judge must issue and publicly notice the election order.
This section sets out who must handle a non-countywide election, how polling places are chosen, and how returns and results are reported.
After an election result triggers adoption of this subchapter, a person may not let the animals described in the proclamation run at large in the county or area after 30 days from the proclamation of results.
If this subchapter is not adopted, another election for that purpose cannot be held in the same county or area for one year, unless subsection (b) allows an immediate follow-up election.
Freeholders in an area covered by this subchapter may ask the commissioners court to hold a repeal election, if the petition is signed by a majority of qualified freeholder voters.
A commissioners court must extend this subchapter to certain adjoining or between-area territory when the stated petition and freeholder conditions are met.
This section says a person generally does not have to fence against animals not allowed to run at large, and it sets minimum fence standards for this chapter.
If a person with an insufficient fence injures or kills certain livestock, or causes it to happen, that person is liable for damages to the animal’s owner.
A person knowingly commits an offense if they turn out, keep up, allow to trespass, or permit an animal prohibited from running at large under this subchapter; the offense is a Class C misdemeanor.
Eligible freeholders may petition the commissioners court for an election on whether hogs may run at large during the Nov. 15 to Feb. 15 period.
After a petition is received, the commissioners court must order an election, and the county judge must issue the election order and give public notice.
This section says the election is generally conducted under Section 143.023 and the laws on general elections, and the ballots must let voters vote for or against the proposition named in the section.
If the election outcome favors a limited free-range period for hogs, a person may allow hogs to run at large in the county or area, but only after 10 days from the proclamation and only during November 15 through February 15 each year.
Limits when repeat elections on the limited period of free range may be held, and repeals that rule if later voters reject it.
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