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