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MINNESOTA STATUTES 2013 <br />CHAPTER 344 <br />PARTITION FENCES <br />344.01 <br />FENCE VIEWERS. <br />344.011 <br />EXEMPTION_ <br />344.02 <br />KINDS OF PARTITION FENCES, <br />344.03 <br />EXPENSE; EQUAL SHARES. <br />344,04 <br />FAILURE TO BUILD OR REPAIR, RIGHTS OF <br />344.16 <br />COMPLAINANT <br />344.05 <br />REPAIR COSTS RECOVERABLE. <br />344.06 <br />CONTROVERSY; DECISION BY FENCE <br />VIEWERS. <br />344.07 FAILURE TO ERECT OR MAINTAIN_ <br />344.08 RECORDED DIVISION; BINDING ON HEIRS AND <br />ASSIGNS_ <br />344.09 PARTY ERECTING MORE THAN SHARE. <br />344.01 FENCE VIEWERS. <br />cc t�aocf 0a+ <br />(S-- <br />344.02 <br />344.10 <br />LANDS BOUNDED BY STREAM, <br />344.11 <br />LANDS OCCUPIED IN COMMON. <br />344.12 <br />VIEWERS TO FIX TIME FOR BUILDING. <br />344.13 <br />LANDS FIRST ENCLOSED. <br />344.14 <br />VIEWERS WHEN FENCE ON TOWN LINE, <br />344.16 <br />DIVISION OR RECORDED AGREEMENT RUNS <br />WITH THE LAND. <br />344.17 <br />FAILURE OF VIEWER TO PERFORM DUTY, <br />PENALTY <br />344.18 <br />COMPENSATION OF VIEWERS. <br />344_ 19 <br />VIEWERS IN COUNTIES NOT ORGANIZED INTO <br />TOWNS. <br />344.20 <br />TOWN OPTION. <br />Supervisors in their respective towns, city council members in their respective wards, <br />commissioners of public works in cities having a commission form of government, and city <br />trustees in statutory cities are fence viewers. <br />History: (7248) RL s 2748; 1921 c 25 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1985 c 265 art 6 s 1 <br />344.011 EXEMPTION. <br />A town board may, by resolution, exempt adjoining owners or occupants from this chapter <br />when their land considered together is less than 20 acres. <br />History: 1982 c 616 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 6 s I <br />344.02 FINDS OF PARTITION FENCES. <br />Subdivision 1. Legal and sufficient fences. The following are legal and sufficient fences: <br />(a) fences consisting of at least 32 -inch woven wire and two barbed wires firmly fastened to <br />well -set posts not more than one rod apart, the first barbed wire being above and not more than <br />four inches from the woven wire and the second barbed wire being above and not more than eight <br />inches from the first wire; <br />(b) fences consisting of at least 40 -inch woven wire and one barbed wire firmly fastened <br />to well -set posts not more than one rod apart, the barbed wire being above and not more than <br />four inches from the woven wire; <br />(c) fences consisting of woven wire at least 48 inches in height, and one barbed wire not <br />more than four inches above the woven wire firmly fastened to well -set posts not more than <br />one rod apart; <br />(d) fences consisting of at least four barbed wires with at least 40 barbs to the rod, the wires <br />firmly fastened to posts not more than one rod apart, the top wire not more than 48 inches high <br />and the bottom wire 12 to 16 inches from the ground; and <br />Copyright C 2013 by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved. <br />