12 chapters · 360 sections in this title.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-43 Proprietors to maintain sufficient fences.
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Sec. 47-43. Proprietors to maintain sufficient fences. The proprietors of lands shall make and maintain sufficient fences to secure their particular fields and to contain their livestock from roaming at large. Within cities and adjacent to house lots, a tight board fence four and…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-44 Compensation of selectmen for services as fence viewers.
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Sec. 47-44. Compensation of selectmen for services as fence viewers. Selectmen shall receive two dollars for each day's service as fence viewers. (1949 Rev., S. 3633.) Cited. 103 C. 424.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-45 Appointees to perform duties of selectmen as to fences.
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Sec. 47-45. Appointees to perform duties of selectmen as to fences. In any town, city or borough which conducts its government under the provisions of any special act, and in which the duties in relation to fences imposed by the general statutes on selectmen are not specifically …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-46 Payment for fence between agricultural property and state highway.
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Sec. 47-46. Payment for fence between agricultural property and state highway. When there is no fence between property used for agricultural purposes adjoining a state highway and the highway property sufficient for the purposes of section 47-43, or when any fence so located is i…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-46a Payment for fence between agricultural property and property in control of Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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Sec. 47-46a. Payment for fence between agricultural property and property in control of Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Where there is no fence between property used for agricultural purposes and adjoining property of the state under control of the Department o…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-47 Barbed wire between adjoining premises or enclosing grounds of public buildings.
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Sec. 47-47. Barbed wire between adjoining premises or enclosing grounds of public buildings. No person shall use barbed wire in the construction of fences, or have barbed wire upon existing fences, between his own premises and those of an adjoining proprietor, within twenty-five …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-48 Barbed wire along sidewalks.
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Sec. 47-48. Barbed wire along sidewalks. No barbed wire shall be installed along any sidewalk unless it is at least six and one-half feet above the ground. Any barbed wire in use in conformity with section 7156 of the general statutes, revision of 1949, on October 1, 1957, may be…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-49 Purchase of division fence.
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Sec. 47-49. Purchase of division fence. If one proprietor or his predecessor in title makes the whole fence and the adjoining proprietor afterwards encloses his land, such adjoining proprietor shall purchase and maintain half of the divisional fence. If the parties do not agree i…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-50 Division of fence by selectmen.
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Sec. 47-50. Division of fence by selectmen. When a fence between adjoining proprietors has never been divided and either refuses to divide it, the other may call on the selectmen to make a division, who shall set out, in writing, the better part to him who erected it or to the pa…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-51 Repair of division fence.
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Sec. 47-51. Repair of division fence. If any person neglects to keep his division fence in repair, the party aggrieved may call on the selectmen to view it, who, if they find it insufficient, shall immediately give written notice thereof to the person bound to repair it, and shal…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-52 When dividing line is a stream.
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Sec. 47-52. When dividing line is a stream. When the dividing line is a stream or pond, which does not take the place of a sufficient fence, and it is impracticable to make the fence in the line, if either party refuses to make a division fence on either side, two selectmen of th…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-53 Apportionment of division fence. Penalty.
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Sec. 47-53. Apportionment of division fence. Penalty. When there is no fence between adjoining proprietors or when a particular enclosure is divided between two or more proprietors and either desires to have a division fence erected, any two selectmen of the town where such land …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-54 Proceedings to obtain new division fence.
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Sec. 47-54. Proceedings to obtain new division fence. When a particular enclosure has been divided and the parties cannot agree respecting the division of a fence belonging to the same, or when adjoining proprietors cannot agree respecting the division of an existing fence, and t…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-55 Damage by animals.
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Sec. 47-55. Damage by animals. All damage done within enclosures by cattle, horses, asses, mules, sheep, swine or goats, when the fence is sufficient, shall be paid by the owner of the animals. No person shall recover for damage done within his enclosure by reason of the insuffic…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-56 Fences around home lots.
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Sec. 47-56. Fences around home lots. When adjoining proprietors are unable to agree about erecting a division fence and there is a dwelling house on the lot of one proprietor within one hundred rods of the dividing line, he may notify any two selectmen of the town in which such l…