Subdivision 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 [Repealed, 1989 c 335 art 4 s 109; 1Sp1989 c 2 s 8]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; 2017 c 88 art 2 s 77
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 343 - 348 — Animals And Property
Chapter 344 — Partition Fences
Section 344.01 — Fence Viewers.
Section 344.02 — Kinds Of Partition Fences.
Section 344.03 — Expense; Equal Shares.
Section 344.04 — Failure To Build Or Repair; Rights Of Complainant.
Section 344.05 — Repair Costs Recoverable.
Section 344.06 — Controversy; Decision By Fence Viewers.
Section 344.07 — Failure To Erect Or Maintain.
Section 344.08 — Recorded Division; Binding On Heirs And Assigns.
Section 344.09 — Party Erecting More Than Share.
Section 344.10 — Lands Bounded By Stream.
Section 344.11 — Lands Occupied In Common.
Section 344.12 — Viewers To Fix Time For Building.
Section 344.13 — Lands First Enclosed.
Section 344.14 — Viewers When Fence On Town Line.
Section 344.16 — Division Or Recorded Agreement Runs With The Land.
Section 344.17 — Failure Of Viewer To Perform Duty; Penalty.
Section 344.18 — Compensation Of Viewers.
Section 344.19 — Viewers In Counties Not Organized Into Towns.