11.4.3.160 Officers May Stop Vehicle – Failure to Have Certificate – Arrest and Seizure.

Any livestock inspector or Pueblo law enforcement officer or Ranger Inspector shall be authorized to stop any vehicle transporting livestock or the carcasses thereof, and demand form the person or persons operating said vehicle to show the certificate of brand inspection or other proof of ownership; and should any person or persons transporting said livestock or the carcasses thereof be unable to exhibit to such inspector or officer said certificate, said inspector or officer is authorized and empowered to arrest, without warrant, any person or persons operating said vehicle and take possessions of same any of the livestock or carcasses therein, and shall retain such possession until the person or persons operating such vehicle can produce satisfactory evidence that he or they, or the person or persons, firm or corporation for whom the same is being transported, is the lawful owner thereof, or until such livestock or carcasses are disposed of as hereinafter provided.