§3-1-20. Sale or purchase of domestic animals or fowl between sunset and sunrise.  


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  • Any person who shall sell or buy any domestic animal or domestic fowl between the hours of sunset and sunrise shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for a period not exceeding one year; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to merchants, grocers or market men, who have a fixed place of business, selling to consumers, when the sales are made at such place of business.

(Code 1907, §6238; Code 1923, §3229; Code 1940, T. 3, §17.)