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5 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2013 344.20 344.18 COMPENSATION OF VIEWERS. Fence viewers must be paid for their services by the person employing them. The town board may by resolution require the person employing the fence viewers to post a bond or other security acceptable to the board for the total estimated costs before the viewing takes place. The total estimated costs may include the cost of professional and other services, hearing costs, administrative costs, recording costs, and other costs and expenses which the town may incur in connection with the viewing. History: (7265) RL s 2767; 1949 c 719 s 1; 1979 c 89 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 6 s 1; 2009 c152s6 344.19 VIEWERS IN COUNTIES NOT ORGANIZED INTO TOWNS. In counties not organized into towns, the county commissioners are fence viewers and are governed by this chapter, except that county commissioners shall not receive the per diem provided in section 344.18 but may be paid a per diem pursuant to section 375.055, subdivision 1, and their necessary expenses, including mileage in accordance with section 471.665. History: (7266) RL s 2768; 1975 c 301 s 6; 1985 c 265 art 6 s 1 344.20 TOWN OPTION. If eight or more landowners in a town petition the town board for a vote on a partition fence policy, the town board may adopt its own policy and procedures for dealing with partition fences, including enforcement procedures. The policy must be approved by the electors of the town at an annual or special town meeting, in which case this chapter does not apply in that town. This chapter applies to any partition fence lying on the boundary between a town which has adopted its own partition fence policy and any other political subdivision unless the other political subdivision is a town which has adopted a similar policy. History: 1982 c 616 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 6 s 1; 2004 c 228 art 2 s 9 Copyright©2013 by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.All Rights Reserved.