{"data":{"id":"us-mt/76-16-316","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"76-16-316","heading":"Sale of trespassing livestock.","body":"(1) Upon receipt of the statement referred to in 76-16-315, the sheriff shall proceed to advertise and sell at public auction the livestock taken up.\n(2) The livestock must be sold on 5 days' notice posted at the courthouse of each county in which any portion of the state district lies and in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. The sheriff may require from the state district a sufficient bond, conditioned upon the following:\n(a) that the state district has used reasonable diligence to discover the owner of the stock and to notify the owner in the premises;\n(b) that all requirements of law on the part of the state district to be performed in the premises have been performed; and\n(c) that the sheriff is indemnified against all liability for the sale of the livestock except as to the sheriff's own failure to perform the things required by law.","path":["TITLE 76. LAND RESOURCES AND USE","CHAPTER 16. GRAZING DISTRICTS","Part 3. Organization, Administration, and Operation"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0760/chapter_0160/part_0030/section_0160/0760-0160-0030-0160.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:00:14Z","sha256":"e05a463676490975d8cb62067a4a6f3cebc445def6c786b47e21d9d86d9e7012","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/76-16-315","next":"us-mt/76-16-317"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}