When there is no fence between property used for agricultural purposes adjoining a state highway and the highway property sufficient for the purposes of section 47-43, or when any fence so located is in need of replacement, the adjoining proprietor may, with the written agreement of the Commissioner of Transportation, executed within sixty days of a written request by such proprietor, cause such a fence to be constructed or replaced within two years from the date of the agreement; and the Commissioner of Transportation shall, within sixty days after the construction or replacement is completed, reimburse the proprietor for one-half the cost thereof, subject to limitations of costs per linear foot and in accordance with standards to be established by said commissioner.
(1957, P.A. 234; 1967, P.A. 43; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 262.)
History: 1967 act specified that fence must be constructed or replaced “within two years from the date of the agreement”; 1969 act replaced highway commissioner with commissioner of transportation.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47 - Land and Land Titles
Section 47-43. - Proprietors to maintain.
Section 47-44. - Compensation of selectmen for services as fence viewers.
Section 47-45. - Appointees to perform duties of selectmen as to fences.
Section 47-46. - Payment for fence between agricultural property and state highway.
Section 47-47. - Barbed wire between adjoining premises or enclosing grounds of public buildings.
Section 47-48. - Barbed wire along sidewalks.
Section 47-49. - Purchase of division fence.
Section 47-50. - Division of fence by selectmen.
Section 47-51. - Repair of division fence.
Section 47-52. - When dividing line is a stream.
Section 47-53. - Apportionment of division fence. Penalty.
Section 47-54. - Proceedings to obtain new division fence.