Section 13. Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays penalties and charges.

13. Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays 1[penalties] and charges.---If the owner of the impounded cattle or his agent appear and claim the cattle, the pound-keeper shall deliver them to him on 2[payment of penalties imposed] and charges incurred in respect of such cattle. The owner or his agent, on taking back the cattle, shall sign a receipt for them in the register kept by the pound-keeper. STATE AMENDMENTS Maharashtra.-- Amendment of section 13 of Act 1 of 1871.--In the principal Act, to the first paragraph of section 13, the following shall be added, namely:-- "and on depositing the amount of security prescribed under section 12A." [Vide Bombay Act XIII of 1959, s. 6]