If the owner or keeper fails to come forward and claim the swine within five days after mailing or delivery of said notice and pay all fees and costs hereinafter provided, or if the ownership of such swine cannot be readily determined, notice of impoundment of the same and the place thereof shall be published at least once in an official journal in the parish where the swine are taken into possession, together with notice that such swine will be sold by the sheriff or constable at public auction to the highest bidder for cash and without appraisement at a specified time, date, and place, not less than five days after publication of such notice. In either event, the original owner thereof may claim such swine and recover the same prior to public sale upon the payment to the officer or citizen impounding the same a fee of two dollars per animal for seizure and a fee of one dollar to pay the cost of food and keep for each day it is impounded, and in the event the same has been advertised, the reasonable cost of such advertisement. If the owner fails to claim the animal and pay the fees as hereinbefore specified, the swine shall be offered for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash and without appraisement.
The fee of the sheriff or constable shall be five percent of the amount of such sale, and in addition, twenty-five cents per animal for giving of notice.
Citation: La. Rev. Stat. § 3:2893.
From the price of the sale, the sheriff or constable shall deduct the fee of the person impounding the swine, the cost of feeding and caring for the swine at the rates hereinabove specified in R.S. 3:2893, and all expenses incurred in the sale. He shall pay the person taking up the swine the fee due him and the person feeding and caring for the swine the fees provided for such services and the remainder shall be paid into the parish treasury for the use and benefit of the parish. If the swine cannot be sold as herein specified, they may be donated by the auctioning officer to any charitable or public institution or welfare recipient or, if none be willing to accept them, disposed of forthwith as the auctioning officer sees fit, except that they shall not be released to run at large.
Citation: La. Rev. Stat. § 3:2894.
Any person convicted of violating the provisions of R.S. 3:2891 shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
Citation: La. Rev. Stat. § 3:2895.
A. The owner of any swine who knowingly, willfully, or negligently permits his swine to run at large upon public property or upon the private property of another person shall be liable for any damage caused by such swine while running at large.
B. The provisions of this Section shall not apply in the Sabine River Swamp in ward 1 and all of ward 2 of Beauregard Parish, in the Little River area north of Catahoula Lake in Grant Parish and LaSalle Parish south of Highway 84, in wards 1, 2, 3, and 4 of LaSalle Parish, in that area of Allen Parish, ward 5, west of the Calcasieu River, in wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 of Vernon Parish, in the Catahoula Lake area of Catahoula Parish, and in the parishes of Winn, Union, St. Tammany, Livingston, St. Helena, Cameron, and Caldwell Parish, except wards 1, 2, 7, and 8 of Caldwell Parish, and state representative district 27, unless a referendum of the people is held to approve it.
C. The provisions of Subsection B of this Section shall become null and void on January 1, 2020.
Citation: La. Rev. Stat. § 3:2896.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to organize or conduct any commercial or private event, wherein there is a display of combat or fighting among one or more domestic or feral canines and feral or domestic hogs and in which it is intended or reasonably foreseeable that the canines or hogs would be injured, maimed, mutilated, or killed.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally do any of the following for the purpose of organizing, conducting, or financially or materially supporting any event as provided in Subsection A of this Section:
(1) Finance, commercially advertise, sell admission tickets, or employ persons.
(2) Own, manage, or operate any facility or property.
(3) Supply, breed, train, or keep canines or hogs.
(4) Knowingly purchase tickets of admission.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any competitive event in which canines, which are trained for hunting or herding activities, are released in an open area or an enclosed area to locate and corner hogs, and in which competitive points are deducted if a hog is caught and held, unless by such actions it is reasonably foreseeable that the canines or hogs would be injured, maimed, mutilated, or killed.
D. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the lawful hunting of hogs with canines or the use of canines for the management, farming, or herding of hogs which are livestock or the private training of canines for the purposes enumerated in this Subsection provided that such training is conducted in the field and is not in violation of the provisions of Subsection A of this Section.
E. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to “Uncle Earl's Hog Dog Trials”, as defined in R.S. 49:170.10.
F. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
G. For the purposes of this Section:
(1) “Hog” shall include a pig, swine, or boar.
(2) “Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, firm, association or other legal entity.
Citation: La. Rev. Stat. § 14:102.19.
Notwithstanding any provision of the state Sanitary Code or any other law or regulation to the contrary, it shall be lawful for a not-for-profit entity or a charitable organization to receive or use any commercial or game fish, migratory or resident game bird, game quadruped, as defined in R.S. 56:8, alligator, or feral hog in food or meal distribution at no cost to an individual.;
Citation: La. Rev. Stat. § 40:4.14.