Chapter 49 - FENCES, FENCE VIEWERS, POUNDS AND FIELD DRIVERS
- Section 49:1 - Fence viewers; appointment; tenure
- Section 49:2 - Definition of fences
- Section 49:3 - Maintenance of partition fences
- Section 49:4 - Failure to maintain partition fence; proceedings by adjoining occupant
- Section 49:5 - Remedy for repair of deficient fence
- Section 49:6 - Disputes regarding repairs; arbitration
- Section 49:7 - Remedy for repair of deficient fence assigned by fence viewers
- Section 49:8 - Remedy for repairing more than just share of partition fence
- Section 49:9 - Construction and maintenance of fences between lands divided by a river
- Section 49:10 - Fences on lands owned in severalty and occupied in common; construction
- Section 49:11 - Maintenance of fences surrounding land laying common
- Section 49:12 - Purchase of rights in fence
- Section 49:13 - Enclosing of formerly unenclosed land; liability of owner; exception
- Section 49:14 - Boundary disputes
- Section 49:15 - Rebuilding of fence on true boundary; duties of adjoining owners
- Section 49:16 - Fence viewers; jurisdiction where fence is on town boundary
- Section 49:17 - Water fences
- Section 49:18 - Fence viewers; powers
- Section 49:19 - Penalty for misfeasance
- Section 49:20 - Fees
- Section 49:21 - Spite fences; definition; remedy of injured occupant
- Section 49:22 - Pounds; establishment; appointment of keeper
- Section 49:23 - Pounds; penalty for injuring
- Section 49:24 - Duties of field driver; taking up untended animals
- Section 49:25 - Duties of keeper; impounding of untended animals
- Section 49:26 - Fees of field driver and pound keeper
- Section 49:27 - Payment of fees
- Section 49:28 - Use of premises of field driver for keeping impounded animals; conditions
- Section 49:29 - Remedies for damage done by untended animals
- Section 49:30 - Care of distrained animals
- Section 49:31 - Duties of distrainor
- Section 49:32 - Release of distrained animals; conditions
- Section 49:33 - Notice of impounding
- Section 49:34 - Publication of notice of impounding
- Section 49:35 - Determination of amount of damages in dispute
- Section 49:36 - Procedure for settlement of claim
- Section 49:37 - Sale of animals to satisfy claim
- Section 49:38 - Disposition of proceeds
- Section 49:39 - Escaped or rescued animals; right to retake
- Section 49:40 - Penalty for rescuing distrained animals
- Section 49:41 - Rights of owner in distress proceedings