11.4.4.010 Findings

(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 has damaged gardens and other individual and tribal property.

(c) The Council has determined it to be in the best interests of the Pueblo to prohibit open grazing and free roaming of livestock on Pueblo lands and that all livestock within the Pueblo boundaries must be confined by the owner(s).

(d) The Council has determined it is in the best interest of the Pueblo to authorize the enforcement actions to seize and impound free roaming livestock and establish civil penalties for violation of the open grazing prohibition