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Title: 4 - AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS

Chapter: 20 - Sufficiency of fences in general

4:20-1: Sufficiency of fences in general

4:20-2: Sufficiency of partition fences

4:20-3: Partition fences of barbed wire

4:20-4: Gates as part of partition fence

4:20-5: Sufficiency of ditches as fences in meadows

4:20-6: Sufficiency as fences of things equivalent thereto

4:20-6.1: Matching grant program established; deer fencing.

4:20-7: Duty to make and maintain portion of partition fence

4:20-8: Failure to make and maintain portion of partition fence

4:20-9: Apportioning of partition fence for erection and maintenance

4:20-10: Specification of time for making partition fence

4:20-11: Placing partition fence where parties disagree

4:20-12: Placing and apportioning partition fence when line is private road or watercourse

4:20-13: Placing and apportioning partition fence when line is township boundary

4:20-14: Failure of members of township committee to agree

4:20-15: Failure of member of township committee to act; penalty

4:20-16: Fees of township committee members

4:20-17: Notice as prerequisite to removal of partition fence

4:20-18: Agreements respecting partition fences

4:20-19: Registration of agreements and certificates; fee

4:20-21: Failure of clerk to register; penalty

4:20-22: Damages by animals breaking through lawful fences

4:20-23: Impounding and sale of such animals

4:20-24: Impounding and sale where no public pound

4:20-25: Molestation of gate in partition fence; penalty; damages and impounding of animals

4:20-26: Effect of failure to maintain fences on damages and impounding

4:20-27: Effect of failure to maintain portion of partition fence

4:20-28: Injuring animals trespassing for want of sufficient fence

4:20-29: Damages to animals by barbed wire partition fences

4:20-30: Fences in highway for preservation of hedges

4:20-31: Ploughing or digging close to hedge prohibited

4:20-32: Violations of sections 4:20-30 and 4:20-31; penalty; damages