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Certain animals found trespassing in or near cemeteries how dealt with
Cap. 40, s. 43 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Any health officer or any officer of a Town Council or any police officer may kill by shooting or otherwise any boar,
sow or pig found in or in the vicinity of or on any road traversing any cemetery,
Provided that,
(a) on the killing of the same, the Health Officer,
officer of the Town Council or police, as the case may be, shall immediately give notice to the owner thereof, if known, who shall remove the carcass within six hours of the receipt of such notice;
(b) if the owner is not known, or the owner, after notice, does not remove the carcass, then such health officer, officer of the Town Council or the police force, as the case may 30 be, shall cause the same to be buried or otherwise disposed of.
(2) If any boar, sow or pig be at any time found in or in the vicinity of or on any road traversing any cemetery, whether or not the same has been killed under the provisions of this section the owner or owners thereof and the person or persons,
if any, in immediate charge thereof, shall each be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars,
and in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.
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