If the owner of impounded livestock is or becomes known to the impounder, actual notice of the whereabouts of the impounded livestock must be immediately given to the owner and the impounder must then make demand upon the owner of the livestock for the costs of impoundment and the damages to the impounder, if any, caused by such livestock.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 68-18
Notice and demand when owner known
Code, s. 2817; Rev., s. 1680; C.S., s. 1851; 1971, c. 741, s. 1.
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