29-301 Maintenance.
29-301. Maintenance. The owners of adjoining lands shall keep up and maintain in good repair all partition fences between them in equal shares, so long as both parties continue to occupy or improve such lands, unless otherwise agreed. History: G.S. 1868, ch. 40, § 8; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 29-301.
29-302 Neglect to repair or rebuild.
29-302. Neglect to repair or rebuild. If any party neglect to repair or rebuild a partition fence, or the portion thereof which he ought to maintain, the aggrieved party may complain to the fence viewers, who, after due notice to each party, shall examine the same, and if they determine that the fence is insufficient, […]
29-303 Complainant may repair or rebuild, when; recovery; attorney’s fee.
29-303. Complainant may repair or rebuild, when; recovery; attorney’s fee. If such fence be not repaired or rebuilt accordingly, the complainant may repair or rebuild it, and the same being adjudged sufficient by the fence viewers, and the value thereof, with their fees, being ascertained by them and certified under their hands, the complainant may […]
29-101 Enclosure of domestic animals with fence required.
29-101. Enclosure of domestic animals with fence required. All domestic animals, other than cats and dogs, shall be enclosed with a fence sufficiently close, composed of posts and rails, posts and palings, posts and planks or palisades, posts and wire, rails alone, laid up in the manner commonly called a worm fence, or turf, with […]
29-102 Construction and composition of fences.
29-102. Construction and composition of fences. All fences composed of posts and rails, posts and palings, posts and planks, or palisades, or of stone, or composed of posts and wires, or those composed of turf, shall be at least four feet high. Those composed of rails, commonly called a worm fence, shall be at least […]
29-103 Fences composed of posts and wires.
29-103. Fences composed of posts and wires. In fences composed of posts and wires, the posts shall be of ordinary size for fencing purposes, and set in the ground at least two feet deep and not more than twelve feet apart, with holes through the posts or staples on the side not more than fifteen […]
29-104 What deemed legal and sufficient fences.
29-104. What deemed legal and sufficient fences. Fences of the material and of the height and sufficiency aforesaid, and all brooks, rivers, creeks, ditches and constructions which shall be equivalent thereto, in the judgment of the fence viewers within whose jurisdiction the same may be, shall be deemed legal and sufficient fences. History: G.S. 1868, […]
29-105 Barbed-wire fence deemed legal fence; construction.
29-105. Barbed-wire fence deemed legal fence; construction. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), and in addition to fence declared by law to be a legal fence, the following shall be a legal fence: A barbed-wire fence, of not less than three wires, with the third wire from the ground not less than 44 […]
29-106 Fencing extensive tracts in certain counties; gates and hitching posts.
29-106. Fencing extensive tracts in certain counties; gates and hitching posts. That whenever any person, persons or corporations shall fence and enclose extensive tracts of land of one hundred acres or over in extent for grazing purposes in the counties of Barber, Pratt, and Russell, and all counties west of range 15, west of the […]
29-107 Penalty for interfering with such fence or leaving gates open.
29-107. Penalty for interfering with such fence or leaving gates open. Any person who shall willfully molest or interfere with said fence or enclosure described in K.S.A. 29-106, by cutting wires or otherwise mutilating or tearing down said fence, or who shall willfully leave open any gate of said fence or enclosure, shall be deemed […]