R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-5-5: Sale of carcasses of condemned animals.

The director of environmental management is authorized to sell the carcass of any animal killed as tuberculous, when in the opinion of the board of appraisers that sale should be permitted. The proceeds of that sale shall be paid to the owner of the animal killed in accordance with this chapter, after deducting from those proceeds the cost of slaughtering or transporting the animal to a slaughterhouse and other expenses incident to the killing and selling of the animal.