New York Town Law Article 18 - FENCES, STRAYS AND POUNDS

• 300 - Apportionment of Division Fence.
  Each owner of two adjoining tracts of land, except when they otherwise agree, shall make and maintain a just and equitable portion of the division...
• 301 - Lands Lying Open.
  When the owners of adjoining lands shall choose to let them lie open, as provided in section three hundred, neither of such owners shall be...
• 302 - Division Fence on Change of Title.
  Whenever a subdivision or new apportionment of any division fence shall become necessary by reason of transfer of the title of either of the adjoining...
• 303 - Settlement of Disputes.
  If disputes arise between the owners of adjoining lands, concerning the liability of either party to make or maintain any division fence, or the proportion...
• 304 - Powers of Fence Viewers.
  Witnesses may be examined by the fence viewers on all questions submitted to them; and either of such fence viewers may issue subpoenas for witnesses....
• 305 - Neglect to Make or Repair Division Fence.
  If any person who is liable to contribute to the erection or repair of a division fence shall neglect or refuse to make and maintain...
• 306 - Fence Destroyed by Accident.
  Whenever a division fence shall be injured or destroyed by floods, or other casualty, the person bound to make and repair such fence, or any...
• 307 - Damages for Insufficient Fence.
  Whenever the electors of any town shall have made any rule or regulation prescribing what shall be deemed a sufficient division fence in such town,...
• 308 - Damages for Omitting to Build Fence.
  If any person liable to contribute to the erection or repair of a division fence shall neglect or refuse to make and maintain his proportion...
• 309 - Use of Barbed or Other Wire for Division Fence.
  Barbed or other wire may be used in the construction of any division fence, provided, that such fence, be built in the following manner: The...
• 310 - Lien Upon Strays.
  Whenever any person shall have any strayed horses, cattle, sheep, swine or other beast upon his inclosed land, or shall find any such beast on...
• 311 - Notice of Lien to Town Clerk.
  If such beasts are not redeemed within five days after coming upon such lands, the person entitled to such lien shall deliver to the town...
• 312 - Impounding Strays.
  Within six days after such beasts shall have come upon such lands, such owner or occupant may cause them to be put in the nearest...
• 313 - Notice of Strays to Owner.
  Within thirty days after any such beasts may have come or been found upon any lands, the owner or occupant of the lands shall serve...
• 314 - Charges for Notice of Strays.
  The person delivering the notice to the town clerk shall be entitled to receive therefor, in addition to the fees paid the town clerk, fifteen...
• 315 - Fees of Fence Viewers As to Strays.
  Each fence viewer shall be entitled to receive ten cents for every mile he shall be obliged to travel from his residence to the place...
• 316 - Foreclosure of Lien Upon Strays.
  If the owner of such beasts shall not redeem the same within one month after delivery of the notice to the town clerk, the person...
• 317 - Notice of Sale of Strays by Fence Viewers.
  After such one month, a fence viewer of the town, on application of the person delivering the notice, shall give at least ten days' previous...
• 318 - Proceeds of Sale of Strays.
  Out of the proceeds from such sale, the fence viewer shall retain and pay the sums charged for such notices, fees and costs, together with...
• 319 - Notice to Owner of Strays of Fence Viewers' Meeting.
  When the owner of such beasts is known and resides in the same town where such beasts are kept, five days' notice of the time...
• 320 - Duties of Fence Viewers As to Strays.
  The fence viewers shall view the premises where damages are claimed to have been done, and they may issue subpoenas, examine witnesses and take any...
• 321 - Foreclosure of Lien Upon Strays by Action.
  When such lien is foreclosed by action, all questions relating to damages, charges, sufficiency of fence, and from where and how such beasts came upon...
• 322 - Surplus Money Upon Sale of Strays.
  If the owner of the beasts shall not appear and demand the residue of such moneys within one year after the sale he shall be...
• 323 - Damages From Other Personal Property.
  When any person shall be authorized to distrain inanimate goods or chattels doing damage, or whenever any logs, timbers, boards or plank, in rafts or...
• 324 - Penalty of Conversion of Floating Lumber.
  Whoever shall convert to his own use, without the consent of the owner thereof, any logs, timber, boards or plank, floating in any of the...
• 325 - Application of Article.
  The villages and cities of this state shall be considered towns for the purpose of construing provisions of this article relating to strays; and the...
• 326 - Erection and Discontinuance of Pounds.
  Whenever the electors of any town shall determine at a biennial town election to erect one or more pounds therein, and whenever a pound shall...
• 327 - Pound-Master's Fees.
  The pound-masters shall be allowed the following fees for their services, to wit: For taking into the pound and discharging therefrom every horse, mule and...

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