---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 161.707"
title: "25"
number: "161.707"
heading: "When will BIA impound unauthorized livestock or other property?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/161.707"
---

# §161.707. When will BIA impound unauthorized livestock or other property?


BIA will impound unauthorized livestock or other property under the following conditions:

- (a) Where there is imminent danger of severe injury to growing or harvestable crop or destruction of the range forage.
- (b) When the known owner or the owner's representative of the unauthorized livestock or other property refuses to accept delivery of a written notice of trespass and the unauthorized livestock or other property are not removed within the period prescribed in the written notice.
- (c) Any time after 5 days of providing notice of impoundment if the trespasser failed to correct the trespass.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 2; 5 U.S.C. 301; 25 U.S.C. 640d et seq.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 58888, Oct. 7, 2005, unless otherwise noted.