If the director of the New Mexico livestock board is unable to determine from the records and description who is the owner or probable owner of such estray or estrays, he shall publish at least once in some publication in general circulation in the county in which the estray animal was picked up, said publication to be designated by the New Mexico livestock board, a notice of such estray, which notice shall give a description of the animal or animals, shall state when and where the same were impounded and shall give notice that unless the animal or animals are claimed by the legal owner within five days after the publication of the notice, the same shall be sold by the New Mexico livestock board for the benefit of the owner when found.
History: Laws 1907, ch. 80, § 4; Code 1915, § 160; Laws 1921, ch. 114, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 4-1504; Laws 1941, ch. 109, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 49-1504; Laws 1953, ch. 19, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 47-14-4; Laws 1977, ch. 165, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For impounding of animals running at large in irrigation districts, see 77-14-7 NMSA 1978.
The 1977 amendment rewrote this section, which formerly dealt with duties of the secretary of the cattle sanitary board and the taking up of estrays.