§ 6-1. Marks and brands required on livestock; keeper of marks and brands; fees, etc.

(a)

All meat cattle, sheep, hogs and goats over one year old shall have earmarks or brands and any person may kill or appropriate any such animals without earmarks or brands as he finds running in the range.

(b)

The "range" shall be all grounds not enclosed by fences, hedges, ditches or embankments or partially by these and by banks of water streams so as to show clearly that the lands are enclosed.

(c)

The parish recorder [clerk of the district court] shall be the keeper of marks and brands and he shall enter such marks and brands of any person so desiring. The mark or brand shall be prima facie evidence of the ownership in the first person giving the mark or brand to the recorder.

(d)

The clerk of the district court shall have the right to charge twenty cents ($0.20) per hundred and twenty-five cents ($1.25) for every certificate he makes in recording brands and marks collected from the party or parties having the work done.

(Ord. of 5-17-1895)