[Requirements of railroad fence.]

That for the purposes of the preceding two sections [77-16-16 NMSA 1978] a sufficient and suitable fence is defined and declared to be a fence at least four and one- half feet high, constructed of posts and wire, the top wire to be four and one-half feet above the ground and shall have at least four wires upon posts not exceeding twenty feet apart. History: Laws 1889, ch. 75, § 3; 1889, ch. 141, § 1; C.L. 1897, § 243; Code 1915, § 30; C.S. 1929, § 4-105; 1941 Comp., § 49-1817; 1953 Comp., § 47-17-17.