82.20 Removal of fences from highway; notice.
(1) If the town board issues an order to lay out or alter a highway through enclosed, cultivated, or improved lands, the town board or highway superintendent shall give the owner or occupant of the lands through which the proposed highway will pass written notice of its, his, or her intent to remove the fences in the path of the new or altered highway. The notice shall state when the town board or highway superintendent intends to remove the fences, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date on which the notice was given to the owner or occupant. If the owner or occupant does not remove the fences before the time stated in the notice, the town board or highway superintendent shall remove the fences and may charge the landowner for the costs of the removal under s. 66.0627.
(2) The notice under sub. (1) shall not be sent until the time for filing an appeal under s. 82.15 has expired and no appeal was taken or until all appeals under s. 82.15 have been brought to a final determination.
(3) This section does not authorize the opening of a highway through enclosed, cultivated, or improved lands or the removal of fences between May 15 and September 15, except in cases of emergency to be determined by the town board.
History: 1991 a. 316; 1999 a. 97; 2003 a. 214 ss. 77 to 79; Stats. 2003 s. 82.20.
NOTE: 2003 Wis. Act 214, which affected this section, contains extensive explanatory notes.
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82.05 - Superintendent of highways.
82.08 - Town bridges or culverts; construction and repair; county aid.
82.09 - County aid for dams used for bridges.
82.10 - Initiation of procedures.
82.13 - Highways to school buildings.
82.14 - Acquiring rights to land; damages from discontinuance.
82.15 - Appeal of a highway order.
82.16 - Highway orders; presumptions.
82.17 - Highway papers, where filed.
82.19 - Discontinuance of highways.
82.20 - Removal of fences from highway; notice.
82.21 - Highways on and across town and municipal lines.
82.23 - Municipal line bridges.
82.25 - Highway taxes for limited-use road.
82.27 - Landlocked property and property with insufficient highway access.
82.28 - Highways and bridges on state boundaries.
82.29 - Highways abutted by state park lands; discontinuance or relocation.
82.31 - Validation of highways.
82.33 - Lost records; how restored; effect.
82.35 - Temporary highways and detours; damages.
82.37 - Tunnel under highway by landowner.