2017 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 4 - Animals and Animal Husbandry
Chapter 4-15 - Animals at Large
Section 4-15-1 - Municipal pounds.

Universal Citation: RI Gen L § 4-15-1 (2017)

§ 4-15-1. Municipal pounds.

Every town or city may maintain at its own charge one or more public pounds, for the impounding of horses, mules, neat-cattle, sheep, goats, geese, hogs, and asses and for the securing of those animals agreeable to law in some convenient place or places in that town or city.

History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 127, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 153, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 183, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 643, § 1; P.L. 1952, ch. 3001, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 4-15-1.)

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