Tribal Law - Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; National Indian Law Library, Native American Rights Fund

Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico - Tribal Law

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Pueblo de San Ildefonso Code.

11.4.4.060 Findings

The Council hereby finds and declares that:

(a) open grazing has placed a burden on all members of the Pueblo to exclude free ranging livestock from residential and agricultural lands;

(b) free ranging livestock have damaged gardens and other individual and tribal property;

(d) it is in the best interests of the Pueblo that all livestock within the Pueblo boundaries must be enclosed by the owner(s);

(e) it is in the best interest of the Pueblo to authorize the seizure and impoundment of livestock of free roaming livestock and to establish civil penalties for owner(s) in violation of the open grazing prohibition;