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§§ 7506–7510 cask or package, or knowingly sells or offers for sale any cask or package so marked, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER 56.

ILLEGAL BRANDING OF STOCK.

§ 7506. Unlawfully branding, or stealing stock. Every person who, willfully, either:

1. Marks, brands, kills or sells; or,

2. Causes to be marked, branded, killed or sold; or,

3. Steals, takes, drives or leads away, any horse, mule, cow, calf, sheep, swine or other animal, the property of another, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years, or by a fine of not less than five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both.

§ 7507. Willfully cutting off ears from stock. Every person who, willfully cuts off either or both ears of any horse, colt, mule, cow, calf, ox, sheep or swine, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by a fine of not less than twenty five and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every animal so maimed.

§ 7508. Willfully driving stock from range. Every person who, willfully drives or causes to be driven, any horses, mules, cattle, sheep or swine from the customary range of such animals, without the permission of the owner thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days and not exceeding six months, or by a fine of not less than fifty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both.

§ 7509. Unlawful branding of stock. Every person who, at any time, between the first day of November and the first day of May following, brands or marks any horse, colt, mule, ass, cow, calf, sheep, swine or other animal that is running at large, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by a fine of not less than twenty-five and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both.

§ 7510. Exception. The provisions of the last section shall not be construed to prevent the owner of any such animals as are mentioned therein, from branding them on his own premises at any time in the presence of two or more responsible citizens of this state as witnesses of such branding.

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