2006 Miscellaneous Laws 



ARTICLE 19 OF THE TOWN LAW: 



Chapter 63 of the Laws of 1!)09 being cliapter 02 of the Consolidated Laws 



as amended by the Laws of 1913. 



Fences 



Section 3 GO. Apportionment of division fence. 



361. When lands maj lie open. 



362. Division fence on change of title. 



363. Settlement of disputes. 



364. Powers of fence viewers. 



365. Xeglect to make or repair division fence. 



366. Fence destroyed bv accident. 



367. Damages for insufficient fence. 



368. Damages for omitting to bnild fence. 



369. T"se of barbed wire for division fence. 



§ 360. Apportionment of division fence. Each owner of two 

 adjoining tracts of land, except when tliej otherwise agree, shall 

 make and maintain a jnst and equitable portion of the division 

 fence between such lands, unless both of said adjoining owners 

 shall agree to let their said lands lie open, along the division 

 line, to the use of all animals which may be lawfully upon the 

 lands of either. When the adjoining lands shall border upon 

 any of the navigable lakes, streams or rivers of the state, the 

 owners of the lands shall make and maintain the division fence 

 between them down to the line of low water mark, in such lakes, 

 streams or rivers, except those lands which overflow annually so 

 as to be so submerged with water that no permanent fence can 

 be kept thereon, and known as low flat lands ; and when adjoining 

 lands shall be l)ounded by a line between the banks of streams of 

 water not navigable, and the owners or occupants thereof cannot 

 agree upon tho manner in which the division fence between them 

 shall be maintained, the fence viewers of the town shall direct 

 upon which bank of the stream, and where the division fence shall 

 be located, and the portion to be kept and maintained by each 

 adjoining owner. [As amended by chapter 86 of the Laws of 

 1911.) 



