TITLE 25

ANIMALS

CHAPTER 11

STATE BRAND BOARD

25-1180.  Mutilating and counterfeiting brands a misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful for any stock grower or other person in this state to change, conceal, deface, disfigure, or obliterate any brand or mark previously branded, impressed or marked on any animal or head of livestock, or put his own, or any other brand upon or over any part of any brand previously branded, upon any animal or head of livestock, and no person must mark or use any counterfeit of any brand or mark provided for in this chapter. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History:

[(25-1180) 1881, p. 295, sec. 10; am. R.S., sec. 1178; compiled and reen. R.C., sec. 1238; am. 1911, ch. 217, sec. 9, p. 699; reen. C.L., sec. 1238; C.S., sec. 1931; I.C.A., sec. 24-1015; am. 1937, ch. 135, sec. 7, p. 216; am. 1973, ch. 168, sec. 18, p. 339; 1988 redesignated 25-1180, ch. 75, sec. 38, p. 128.]