Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 8, August 19, 2024
Section 344.03 - EXPENSE; EQUAL SHARESSubdivision 1.Adjoining owners.(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), if two adjoining lands are both used in whole or in part to produce or maintain livestock for agricultural or commercial purposes and one or both of the owners of the land desires the land to be partly or totally fenced, the land owners or occupants shall build and maintain a partition fence between their lands in equal shares.(b) The requirement in this section and the procedures in this chapter apply to the Department of Natural Resources when it owns land adjoining privately owned land subject to this section and chapter and the landowner desires the land permanently fenced for the purpose of restraining livestock.(c) For purposes of this section, "livestock" means beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, poultry, goats, donkeys, hinnies, mules, farmed Cervidae, Ratitae, bison, sheep, horses, alpacas, and llamas.Subd. 2.[Repealed, 1989 c 335 art 4 s 109; 1Sp1989 c 2 s 8]
RL s 2750; 1913 c 525 s 1; 1915 c 173; 1965 c 717 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1971 c 24 s 38; 1985 c 265 art 6 s 1; 1989 c 335 art 4 s 109; 1Sp1989 c 2 s 8; 1994 c 623 art 1 s 40
Amended by 2017 Minn. Laws, ch. 88,s 2-77, eff. 5/31/2017.