Establishment of controlled livestock districts; prohibition against animals at large.

(a) A district judge may establish a controlled livestock district within a municipality or in other settled areas of the state, as provided in this chapter, to consist of a contiguous area of not less than 1,280 acres. (b) The owner and the person having custody and control of a domestic animal kept within a controlled livestock district may not with criminal negligence permit the domestic animal to graze or run at large. (c) Violation of (b) of this section is a class B misdemeanor.