Massachusetts General Laws
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts
Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers

Section 1 - Fence Viewers; Appointment; Tenure - Section 1. The mayor of each city, subject to confirmation...

Section 2 - Definition of Fences - Section 2. Fences four feet high, in good repair, constructed...

Section 3 - Maintenance of Partition Fences - Section 3. The occupants of adjoining lands enclosed with fences...

Section 4 - Failure to Maintain Partition Fence; Proceedings by Adjoining Occupant - Section 4. If a person refuses or neglects to repair...

Section 5 - Remedy for Repair of Deficient Fence - Section 5. If a deficient fence which has been built...

Section 6 - Disputes Regarding Repairs; Arbitration - Section 6. When a dispute arises concerning the part of...

Section 7 - Remedy for Repair of Deficient Fence Assigned by Fence Viewers - Section 7. If a person refuses or neglects to erect...

Section 8 - Remedy for Repairing More Than Just Share of Partition Fence - Section 8. If a partition fence is required under this...

Section 9 - Construction and Maintenance of Fences Between Lands Divided by a River - Section 9. If lands of different persons, required under this...

Section 10 - Fences on Lands Owned in Severalty and Occupied in Common; Construction - Section 10. If land belonging to two persons in severalty...

Section 11 - Maintenance of Fences Surrounding Land Laying Common - Section 11. If a division of fence between the owners...

Section 12 - Purchase of Rights in Fence - Section 12. If one person ceases to improve his land...

Section 13 - Enclosing of Formerly Unenclosed Land; Liability of Owner; Exception - Section 13. If unenclosed land is afterward enclosed or used...

Section 14 - Boundary Disputes - Section 14. If the division line between lands of respective...

Section 15 - Rebuilding of Fence on True Boundary; Duties of Adjoining Owners - Section 15. If it is determined that the true division...

Section 16 - Fence Viewers; Jurisdiction Where Fence Is on Town Boundary - Section 16. If the line upon which a partition fence...

Section 17 - Water Fences - Section 17. A water fence, or fence running into the...

Section 18 - Fence Viewers; Powers - Section 18. Fence viewers, when called upon to act under...

Section 19 - Penalty for Misfeasance - Section 19. A fence viewer who, when requested, unreasonably neglects...

Section 20 - Fees - Section 20. Each fence viewer shall be paid at the...

Section 21 - Fences Deemed a Private Nuisance; Right of Action - Section 21. A fence or other structure in the nature...

Section 22 - Pounds; Establishment; Appointment of Keeper - Section 22. Each town may provide and maintain one or...

Section 23 - Pounds; Penalty for Injuring - Section 23. Whoever wilfully injures a pound shall be punished...

Section 24 - Duties of Field Driver; Taking Up Untended Animals - Section 24. Every field driver shall take up horses, mules,...

Section 25 - Duties of Keeper; Impounding of Untended Animals - Section 25. Beasts so taken up by a field driver...

Section 26 - Fees of Field Driver and Pound Keeper - Section 26. A city by vote of its city council,...

Section 27 - Payment of Fees - Section 27. The pound keeper shall not deliver to the...

Section 28 - Use of Premises of Field Driver for Keeping Impounded Animals; Conditions - Section 28. Beasts taken up by a field driver in...

Section 29 - Remedies for Damage Done by Untended Animals - Section 29. If a person is injured in his land...

Section 30 - Care of Distrained Animals - Section 30. Beasts so distrained shall be impounded in the...

Section 31 - Duties of Distrainor - Section 31. If the beasts are impounded in the pound,...

Section 32 - Release of Distrained Animals; Conditions - Section 32. The pound keeper shall not deliver the beasts...

Section 33 - Notice of Impounding - Section 33. Whoever impounds beasts shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter,...

Section 34 - Publication of Notice of Impounding - Section 34. If there is no person entitled to such...

Section 35 - Determination of Amount of Damages in Dispute - Section 35. If the owner or keeper of the beasts...

Section 36 - Procedure for Settlement of Claim - Section 36. If the amount for which the beasts have...

Section 37 - Sale of Animals to Satisfy Claim - Section 37. If the amount so determined is not paid...

Section 38 - Disposition of Proceeds - Section 38. The proceeds of the sale, after paying all...

Section 39 - Escaped or Rescued Animals; Right to Retake - Section 39. If beasts lawfully distrained or impounded escape or...

Section 40 - Penalty for Rescuing Distrained Animals - Section 40. Whoever rescues beasts lawfully distrained or impounded shall...

Section 41 - Rights of Owner in Distress Proceedings - Section 41. The defendant in an action for rescuing beasts...