359A.3 Notice and hearing.
The fence viewers shall give five days’ notice in writing to all parties to the controversy. The notice shall prescribe the time and place of the hearing to decide any and all matters that are part of the controversy as described in the notice. Upon request of any landowner, the fence viewers shall give the notice to all adjoining landowners liable for the erection, maintenance, rebuilding, trimming, or cutting back, or repairing of a partition fence, or to pay for an existing hedge or fence. The notice must include the names of the fence viewers and state whether a fence viewer disclosed a possible conflict of interest or whether a substitute fence viewer was appointed due to a fence viewer’s disqualification pursuant to section 359A.2A.
[C51, §896, 898, 902, 909; R60, §1527, 1529, 1533, 1540; C73, §1490, 1492, 1496, 1503; C97, §2356; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1831; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.3]
C93, §359A.3
2018 Acts, ch 1081, §3
Referred to in §359A.4, 359A.5
Structure Iowa Code
Section 359A.1A - Partition fences.
Section 359A.2 - Trimming and cutting back.
Section 359A.2A - Fence viewers — township trustees — authority — conflict of interest.
Section 359A.3 - Notice and hearing.
Section 359A.4 - Hearing — decision — order — deposit.
Section 359A.5 - Contribution postponed.
Section 359A.6 - Default — costs and fees collected.
Section 359A.7 - Service of notice on nonresidents.
Section 359A.10 - Entry and record of orders.
Section 359A.11 - Record conclusive.
Section 359A.12 - Division by agreement — record.
Section 359A.13 - Orders and agreements — effect.
Section 359A.14 - Lands in different townships.
Section 359A.15 - Fence on another’s land.
Section 359A.16 - Right to build fence on line.
Section 359A.17 - Fence on one side of line.
Section 359A.18 - Lawful fence.
Section 359A.19 - Duty to maintain tight fences.
Section 359A.20 - Tight fence.
Section 359A.21 - Duty to keep fence tight.
Section 359A.22 - Controversies.
Section 359A.22A - Habitual trespass.