359A.3  Powers of fence viewers.

The fence viewers shall have power to determine any controversy arising under this chapter, upon giving five days' notice in writing to the opposite party or parties, prescribing the time and place of meeting to hear and determine the matter named in said notice. Upon request of any landowner, the fence viewers shall give such 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.

Section History: Early form

  [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]

Section History: Recent form

  C93, § 359A.3

Internal References

  Referred to in § 359A.5

Footnotes

  Trustees as fence viewers, § 359.17


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