Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-08-29
No 787. Al Published juno 4. 1918.
CHAPTER asa LAWS ar lsia

No. 1877. Al Published June 4, 1878
CHAPTER $50. LAWS OF 1918.
AN ACT, To amend subsection /, to repeal eib-
sections and T. to create subsection 8. to amend
subsection and to renumber the same to be sub
section T. OF section 1910. and to create section
1797-12o Of the statutes. relating to fences along
the right of way Of railroad companies.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin represented In
Senate and Assembly, do enact follows:
Section /. Subsection Of section 1910 Of the
statutes is amended to read: (Secnon 18l0) i.
Every railroad corporation operating any railroad
shall erect and maintain both sides Of any portion
of its road (depot grounds excepted) good and su1
cfent fences Of the height Of not less than a
forty-e inches. with openings or gates bars
therein and suitable and convenient farm crossings
Of the road for the Of the Of the lands
adjoining, and shall construct and maintain cattle
guards at all highway crossings and connect their
fences Herewith to prevent cattle and other domestic
IRON gong on sacn raaroaa PROVIDED saas
shall not apply to any crossing located in city
incorporated village.
Section 2 Subsections and Of section 1910
Of the statutes are repealed.
Section 8. There is added to section 1910 Of the
statutes subsection to read: tSection 1810) g.
Any heretofore hereafter built In conformity
with of the subdivisions Of section l390a Of the
Wisconsin statutes, 1911. shall be deemed good and
sufficient fence.
Section A. Subsection Of section 1910 Of the
statutes is REMEMBERED to be subsection thereof
and is amended to read: (Section 1870 T.
No fence shall be required in places where the
proximity OF ponds. lakes. water-coursess ditches
hills entertainments or other sufficient protection rem
ders fence unnecessary to protect cattle other
domestic animals from sraying the right Of way
track; provided that nothing herein shall affect
render unlawful any fence heretofore built By
railroad company pursuant to the require
ments Of ANY statute
Section s. There is added to the statutes q new
section to read: Section 1797--l2o Whenever q
complaint is lodged with the commission by the
occupant Of any land contiguous to the
right of way Of any railroad line In this state, to
the effect that the railroad company operating such
line has failed to construct keep in good repair
suitable and proper fences along its right Of way
adjacent to such land 1t shall be the duty Of the
commission give notice to the railroad company in
interest of the filing Of such complaint and to orr
hearings in section 1797--12. II upon a hearing it
shall appear to the satisfaction of the commission
that the lack OF fences the tnsllfciency of such
fences as exist at the point mentioned in the COM
plant, subjects live stock which is or may be pas
tured on such land to injury from passing trains.
said commission may order and direct said railroad
company to repair such fence fences that the
same shall sufficient to construct fences made
Of eleven strands of strong wire of at least
nots less than No. l6 WIRE II cross wires used
they are to be not than six inches apart, and
if eSHes meshes shall exceed six inches square. The
height of such wire fence shall not be less than
inches with the bottom wire close to the
ground and the posts not more than sixteen feet
apart. Fences Of other material equivalent to the
fences herenbefore described be ordered by the
commission be constructed whenever the crcum-
stances OF any case may to require. Any
the order of the commission shall be deemed good
and sufficient fence within the requirements OF section
1910 of the statutes
Section g. This act shall take effect upon its pass
age and publication.
Approved June 2. 1918.