This appears to be a section of the Arizona law on fence out. It looks to me that the fence out law does NOT apply in an incorporated town or city. The original poster says they live in the city. In fence out states, can the cattle owner really drive the cattle to town and let them graze city hall and the lawns and yards and ball fields in town? Medians and right of ways on the interstates? Is there any incentive for a cattle guy with marginal grazing land to even have a fence? If the cow jumps into the homeowner's pool in the city, is the homeowner responsible for damage to the cow? I know that many states have fence out, but it is a foreign concept for a lot of us in the east.
3-1429. Exemption of incorporated city or town from provisions of article
A. Nothing in this article shall affect any ordinance of an incorporated city or town relating to stock running at large in the incorporated city or town nor shall its provisions apply to any land that is located within an incorporated city or town.
B. Any penalties imposed by a municipal ordinance relating to stock running at large shall not apply to lands that are annexed or incorporated into the city or town for two years after the annexation or incorporation, regardless of whether the lands were previously in a no-fence district or open range.
the interstates are fenced by the state, I have 7-8 miles of interstate that run through the ranch. I have been told not to touch the fence, it is ADOT's responsibility. I am currently fighting with them about 3 mile of it that is more than 60 years old and badly needs replacing. I have lost 3 head this spring/summer because of it. scares the crap out of me because the vast majority of idiots driving out there have no clue how much a bovine weighs and what it will do to their vehicle if they don't slow the hell down.I went back and read all of his comments. He lives in a development. He said nothing about being in a city. There are lots of developments in the unincorporated areas of a county.
I believe the interstate is exempt from the open range laws. Here where cows are out on county roads and even state highways all the time, everyone scrambles if a cow gets on to the interstate right of way. I have never been present when cattle were driven through one of the smaller towns in the county. But I have seen enough cow manure on the road to know that it has happened. I have never seen sign of them in the middle of the one city in the county. I have seen them driven down the edge of the city. Certainly within the city limits. There has been two times on Sunday mornings on our way to church we pull off the freeway and meet several hundred cows coming over the freeway over pass. These cows would have came down a main road on the edge of town. Passing right in front of the hospital, 3 big churches, a housing development, a trailer park, several big retail stores that share a large open parking lot, a couple state offices, crossing a main RR line, and a 60 mph highway where the cows would have run the stop sign. They then continued out a 60 mph state highway.