The cost of repairs and construction of party walls and the preservation of enclosures, live hedges, ditches and drains in common shall be borne by all the owners of the tenements who are interested therein, in proportion to the rights of each one.
Nevertheless, any owner may exempt himself from contributing to this charge by renouncing his right, except in the case when the party wall supports a building belonging to him.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 511.