Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

No 787, Al Published June 4, 1918.
CHAPTER 1888, LAWS OF 1913.
AN ACT-To amend subsection /, to re-
peal subsections 8 and 4, to create sub
section 3, to amend subsection and
to renumber the same to be subsection
4, of section 1910, and to create section
1797-12o of the statutes, relating to
fences along the right of way of rail-
road companies.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin.
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section /. Subsection l of section 1910
Of the statutes is amended to read; (Sec-
ton 1870 l. Every railroad corporation
operating any railroad shall erect and
maintain on both sides of any portion of
its road depot grounds excepted) good
and sufficient fences OF the helght or nor
less than fofty-elght l1lches'
with openings or gates Or bars therein.
and suitable and convenient farm cross
ings of the road for the use of the oc-
cupants 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 animals from going on
such railroad; provided. that the pro
visions Of this section requiring cattle
guards shall not apply to any crossing To-
Gated in a city or incorporated village.
Section 2. Subsections and of Sec
ton 1910 of the statutes are repealed.
Section g. There is added to section
1910 of the statutes a new subsection to
read: (Section 1870 8. Any fence here
tofore or hereafter built in conformity
with any Of the subdivisions OF section
1390a Of the Wisconsin statutes, 1911, shall
be deemed a good and sufficient fence.
Section a. Subsection of section 1910
of the statutes is remembered to be SUBJ
section thereof and is amended to read:
(Section 1870 4. No fence shall
be required in places where the prox-
unity Of ponds, lakes, watercoursess'
bitches, bills embank1nents or other SUI
ficient protection renders fence UNI
necessary to protect cattle or other do
nestle animals from straying upon the
right of way or track; provided, that
nothing herein shall affect or render I'M
lawful any fence heretofore built by any
railroad company i pursuant to
the requirements of any statute.
Section 5. There is added to the stat
utes q new section to read: Section ll9l
-12o. Whenever complaint is lodged
with the commission by the owner or oc-
cupant of any land contiguous to the
right of way of any railroad line In THIS
state, to the effect that the railroad com
pany operating such line has failed to
construct or keep in good repair suitable
and proper fences along its right of way
adjacent to such land, it shall be the
duty Of the commission to give notice to
the railroad company in interest or the
filing of such complaint and to order a
hearing thereon in the manner provided
for hearings in section 1797-12. If upon
such hearing it shall appear to the sat
isfaction of the commission that the
lack of fences or the insufficiency of such
fences as exist at the point mentioned in
the complaint, subjects live stock which
is or may be pastured on such land to
injury from passing trains, said commits
sion may order and direct said railroad
company to repair such fence or fences so
that the same shall be sufficient or to
construct fences made of eleven strands
of strong woven wire of at least No. II
mea surement; cross wires or meshes to
be of not less than Mo. 16 wire. If cross
wires are used, they are to be not more
than six inches apart and If meshes no
neshes shall exceed six inches square.
The height of such woven wire fences
shall not be less than forty-eight inches
with the bottom wire close to the ground
and the posts not more than sixteen feet
apart Fences of other material equiv
alent to the fences hereinbefore described
may be ordered by the commission to be
constructed whenever the circumstances
of any case may seem to SO require.
Any fence constructed pursuant to and
in compliance with the order of the COM
mission shall be deemed a good and suf-
ficient fence within the requirements OF
section 1910 of the statutes.
Section 8. This act shall take effect
upon its passage and publication.
Approved June 2. 1913 Copy Law.