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IA Code § 359A.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.2 - Trimming and cutting back.

359A.2 Trimming and cutting back.   If said fence be hedge, the owner thereof shall trim or cut it back twice during each calendar year, the first time during the month of June and the last time during the month of September, to within five feet from the ground, unless such owners otherwise agree in writing to be filed with and recorded by the township clerk.  [C51, §900; R60, §1531; C73, §1494; C97, §2355; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1830; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.2]  C93, §359A.2
IA Code § 359A.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.3 - Notice and hearing.

359A.3 Notice and hearing.   The fence viewers shall give five days’ notice in writing to all parties to the controversy. The notice shall prescribe the time and place of the hearing to decide any and all matters that are part of the controversy as described in the notice. Upon request of any landowner, the fence viewers shall give the notice to all adjoining landowners liable for the erection, maintenance, rebuilding, trimming, or cutting back, or repairing of a partition fence, or to pay for an existing hedge or fence. The notice must include the names of the fence viewers and state whether a fence viewer disclosed a possible conflict of interest or whether a substitute fence viewer was appointed due to a fence viewer’s disqualification pursuant to section 359A.2A.  [C51, §896, 898, 902, 909; R60, §1527, 1529, 1533, 1540; C73, §1490, 1492, 1496, 1503; C97, §2356; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1831; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.3]  C93, §359A.3  2018 Acts, ch 1081, §3  Referred to in §359A.4, 359A.5
IA Code § 359A.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.5 - Contribution postponed.

359A.5 Contribution postponed.   In case a landowner desires to erect a partition hedge or fence when the owner of the adjoining land is not liable to contribute thereto, the fence viewers may assign to each owner the part which the owner shall erect, maintain, rebuild, and repair, trim or cut back, by pursuing the method provided in sections 359A.3 and 359A.4; but the adjoining owner shall not be required to contribute thereto until the adjoining owner becomes liable so to do, as elsewhere in this chapter provided.  [C51, §901; R60, §1532; C73, §1495; C97, §2357; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1833; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.5]  C93, §359A.5
IA Code § 359A.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.6 - Default — costs and fees collected.

359A.6 Default — costs and fees collected.   If the erecting, rebuilding, or repairing of a fence is not completed within thirty days from and after the time fixed in the order, the board of township trustees acting as fence viewers shall cause the fence to be erected, rebuilt, and repaired, and the value thereof may be fixed by the fence viewers. Unless the sum so fixed, together with all fees of the fence viewers caused by the default, is paid to the county treasurer, within ten days after the full amount due is ascertained, or when ordered to pay for an existing fence, and the value thereof is fixed by the fence viewers, and the sum, together with the fees of the fence viewers, remains unpaid by the party in default for ten days, the fence viewers shall certify to the county treasurer the full amount due from the party or parties in default, including all fees and costs assessed by the fence viewers, together with a description of the real estate owned by the party or parties in default along or upon which the said fence exists. The county treasurer shall enter the full amount due upon the county system, and the amount shall be collected in the same manner as ordinary taxes. Upon certification to the county treasurer, the amount assessed shall be a lien on the parcel until paid.  [C51, §897, 899, 902; R60, §1528, 1530, 1533; C73, §1491, 1493, 1496; C97, §2358; S13, §2358; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1834; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.6]  C93, §359A.6  2010 Acts, ch 1118, §7; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §110  Referred to in §169C.6, 359A.4, 445.1  Collection of taxes, chapter 445 et seq.  Fees of fence viewers, §359.46
IA Code § 359A.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.7 - Service of notice on nonresidents.

359A.7 Service of notice on nonresidents.   The notice by the fence viewers provided for in this chapter may be served upon any owner nonresident of the county where the land is situated, by publication thereof, once each week, for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper printed in the county in which the land is situated, proof of which shall be made as in case of an original notice and filed with the fence viewers, and a copy delivered to the occupant of said land, or to any agent of the owner in charge of the same.  [C97, §2359; S13, §2359; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1835; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.7]  C93, §359A.7  Proof of publication,  R.C.P. 1.314
IA Code § 359A.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.8 - Orders.

359A.8 Orders.   All orders and decisions made by the fence viewers shall be in writing, signed by at least two of them, and filed with the township clerk.  [C97, §2360; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1836; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.8]  C93, §359A.8
IA Code § 359A.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.9 - Notice.

359A.9 Notice.   All notices in this chapter required to be given shall be in writing, and return of service thereof made in the same manner as notices in actions before a judicial magistrate.  [C97, §2360; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1837; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.9]  C93, §359A.9  Service and return,  R.C.P. 1.302 – 1.315
IA Code § 359A.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.10 - Entry and record of orders.

359A.10 Entry and record of orders.   Such orders, decisions, notices, and returns shall be entered of record at length by the township clerk, and a copy thereof certified by the township clerk to the county recorder, who shall record the same in the recorder’s office in the manner specified in sections 558.49 and 558.52, and index such record in the name of each adjoining owner as grantor to the other. The county recorder shall collect fees specified in section 331.604.  [C97, §2360; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1838; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.10]  C93, §359A.10  2009 Acts, ch 27, §12; 2014 Acts, ch 1141, §70  Referred to in §331.602
IA Code § 359A.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.11 - Record conclusive.

359A.11 Record conclusive.   The record in the recorder’s office, unless modified, by appeal as hereinafter provided, shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated, and such record or a certified copy thereof shall be competent evidence in all courts.  [C97, §2360; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1839; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.11]  C93, §359A.11  Appeal, §359A.23
IA Code § 359A.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.12 - Division by agreement — record.

359A.12 Division by agreement — record.   The several owners may, in writing, agree upon the portion of partition fences between their lands which shall be erected and maintained by each, which writing shall describe the lands and the parts of the fences so assigned, be signed and acknowledged by them, and filed and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county or counties in which they are situated. The county recorder shall collect fees specified in section 331.604.  [C51, §905; R60, §1536; C73, §1499; C97, §2361; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1840; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.12]  C93, §359A.12  2009 Acts, ch 27, §13  Referred to in §359A.4
IA Code § 359A.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.13 - Orders and agreements — effect.

359A.13 Orders and agreements — effect.   Any order made by the fence viewers, or any agreement in writing between adjoining landowners, when recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds, as in this chapter provided, shall bind the makers, their heirs, and subsequent grantees.  [C51, §905; R60, §1536; C73, §1499; C97, §2362; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1841; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.13]  C93, §359A.13  Referred to in §359A.4
IA Code § 359A.14 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.14 - Lands in different townships.

359A.14 Lands in different townships.   When the adjoining lands are situated in different townships in the same or different counties, the clerk of the township of the owner making the application shall select two trustees of the clerk’s township as fence viewers, and the clerk of the other township one from that clerk’s township, who shall possess, in such case, all the powers given to fence viewers in this chapter, but all orders, notices, and valuations and taxation of costs made by them must be recorded in both townships and in the office of the recorder of deeds of each county.  [C51, §906; R60, §1537; C73, §1500; C97, §2363; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1842; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.14]  C93, §359A.14  Referred to in §359A.2A
IA Code § 359A.15 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.15 - Fence on another’s land.

359A.15 Fence on another’s land.   When a person has made a fence or other improvement on an enclosure, which is found to be on land of another, such person may enter upon the land of the other and remove the fence or other improvement and material, upon the first paying, or offering to pay, the other party for any damage to the soil which may be occasioned thereby, and the value of any timber used in said improvement taken from the land of such other party, if any; and if the parties cannot agree as to the damages, the fence viewers may determine them as in other cases; such removal shall be made as soon as practicable, but not so as to expose the crops of the other party.  [C51, §907, 908; R60, §1538, 1539; C73, §1501, 1502; C97, §2364; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1843; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.15]  C93, §359A.15
IA Code § 359A.16 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.16 - Right to build fence on line.

359A.16 Right to build fence on line.   A person building a fence may lay the same upon the line between the person and the adjacent owners, so that it may be partly on one side and partly on the other, and the owner shall have the same right to remove it as if it were wholly on the owner’s own land.  [C51, §910; R60, §1541; C73, §1504; C97, §2365; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1844; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.16]  C93, §359A.16
IA Code § 359A.17 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.17 - Fence on one side of line.

359A.17 Fence on one side of line.   The provisions concerning partition fences shall apply to a fence standing wholly upon one side of the division line.  [C51, §911; R60, §1542; C73, §1505; C97, §2366; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1845; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.17]  C93, §359A.17
IA Code § 359A.18 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.18 - Lawful fence.

359A.18 Lawful fence.   A lawful fence shall consist of:   1. Three rails of good substantial material fastened in or to good substantial posts not more than ten feet apart.   2. Three boards not less than six inches wide and three-quarters of an inch thick, fastened in or to good substantial posts not more than eight feet apart.   3. Three wires, barbed with not less than thirty-six iron barbs of two points each, or twenty-six iron barbs of four points each, on each rod of wire, or of four wires, two thus barbed and two smooth, the wires to be firmly fastened to posts not more than two rods apart, with not less than two stays between posts, or with posts not more than one rod apart without such stays, the top wire to be not more than fifty-four nor less than forty-eight inches in height.   4. Wire either wholly or in part, substantially built and kept in good repair, the lowest or bottom rail, wire, or board not more than twenty nor less than sixteen inches from the ground, the top rail, wire, or board to be between forty-eight and fifty-four inches in height and the middle rail, wire, or board not less than twelve nor more than eighteen inches above the bottom rail, wire, or board.   5. A fence consisting of four parallel, coated steel, smooth high-tensile wire which meets requirements adopted by ASTM (American society for testing and materials) international, including but not limited to requirements relating to the grade, tensile strength, elongation, dimensions, and tolerances of the wire. The wire must be firmly fastened to plastic, metal, or wooden posts securely planted in the earth. The posts shall not be more than two rods apart. The top wire shall be at least forty inches in height.   6. Any other kind of fence which the fence viewers consider to be equivalent to a lawful fence or which meets standards established by the department of agriculture and land stewardship by rule as equivalent to a lawful fence.  [R60, §1544, 1545; C73, §1507; C97, §2367; S13, §2367; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1846; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.18]  85 Acts, ch 195, §11; 87 Acts, ch 17, §5  C93, §359A.18  94 Acts, ch 1061, §1; 2000 Acts, ch 1058, §33; 2004 Acts, ch 1086, §106  Referred to in §359A.22  School attendance centers, §297.14  Railway fence specifications, §327G.4 and 327G.5
IA Code § 359A.19 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.19 - Duty to maintain tight fences.

359A.19 Duty to maintain tight fences.   All partition fences may be made tight by the party desiring it, and when that party’s portion is so completed, and securely fastened to good substantial posts, set firmly in the ground, not more than twenty feet apart, the adjoining property owner shall construct the adjoining owner’s portion of the adjoining fence, in a lawful tight manner, same to be securely fastened to good substantial posts, set firmly in the ground, not more than twenty feet apart.  [R60, §1545; C73, §1507; C97, §2367; S13, §2367; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1847; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.19]  C93, §359A.19  Referred to in §359A.22
IA Code § 359A.20 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.20 - Tight fence.

359A.20 Tight fence.   All tight partition fences shall consist of:   1. Not less than twenty-six inches of substantial woven wire on the bottom, with three strands of barbed wire with not less than thirty-six barbs of at least two points to the rod, on top, the top wire to be not less than forty-eight inches, nor more than fifty-four inches high.   2. Good substantial woven wire not less than forty-eight inches nor more than fifty-four inches high with one barbed wire of not less than thirty-six barbs of two points to the rod, not more than four inches above said woven wire.   3. Any other kind of fence which the fence viewers consider to be equivalent to a tight partition fence or which meets standards established by the department of agriculture and land stewardship by rule as equivalent to a tight partition fence.  [C97, §2367; S13, §2367; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1848; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.20]  85 Acts, ch 195, §12; 87 Acts, ch 17, §6  C93, §359A.20  Referred to in §359A.22
IA Code § 359A.21 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.21 - Duty to keep fence tight.

359A.21 Duty to keep fence tight.   In case adjoining owners or occupants of land shall use the same for pasturing sheep or swine, each shall keep that one’s share of the partition fence in such condition as shall restrain such sheep or swine.  [C73, §1507; C97, §2367; S13, §2367; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1849; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.21]  C93, §359A.21  Referred to in §359A.22
IA Code § 359A.22 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.22 - Controversies.

359A.22 Controversies.   Upon the application of either owner, after notice is given as prescribed in this chapter, the fence viewers shall determine all controversies arising under sections 359A.18 to 359A.21, inclusive, including the partition fences made sheep and swine tight.  [C97, §2367; S13, §2367; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1850; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.22]  C93, §359A.22  Notice, §359A.3, 359A.7, 359A.9
IA Code § 359A.22A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.22A - Habitual trespass.

359A.22A Habitual trespass.   A landowner of land where livestock are kept or an owner of adjoining land shall be liable to erect or maintain a fence if the livestock trespasses upon the land of a neighboring landowner or strays from the land where the livestock are kept onto a public road, as provided in section 169C.6.  2007 Acts, ch 64, §3
IA Code § 359A.23 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.23 - Appeal.

359A.23 Appeal.   Any person affected by an order or decision of the fence viewers may appeal to the district court by filing with the clerk of said court a notice of appeal within twenty days after the rendition of the order or decision appealed from and filing an appeal bond in an amount approved by the township clerk. The township clerk, after recording the original papers, shall thereupon file them in the office of the clerk of the district court, certifying them to be such, and the clerk shall docket them, entitling the applicant or petitioner as plaintiff, and it shall stand for trial as other cases.  [C97, §2369; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1851; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.23]  C93, §359A.23  Referred to in §602.8102(27)  Presumption of approval of bond, §636.10
IA Code § 359A.24 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.24 - Certification of decree.

359A.24 Certification of decree.   Upon the final determination of said appeal the clerk of the district court shall certify to the recorder of deeds the fact that a judgment has been entered upon such appeal, with the book and page of such judgment, and the recorder shall thereupon enter on the recorder’s record a notation that a judgment on appeal has been entered and that the same may be found in the office of the clerk of the district court, in the book and page designated in said certificate.  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1852; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.24]  C93, §359A.24  Referred to in §331.602, 602.8102(28)
IA Code § 359A.25 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 359A - FENCES|Section 359A.25 - Record kept — fees of clerk.

359A.25 Record kept — fees of clerk.   The township clerk shall enter all matters herein required to be made of record in the clerk’s record book, and shall receive ten cents for each one hundred words in entering of record and making certified copies of the matters herein provided for, and twenty-five cents additional for the clerk’s certificate thereto when required, and shall also receive the costs of recording in the office of the recorder of deeds of any instrument required to be so recorded.  [C97, §2370; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1853; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.25]  C93, §359A.25
IA Code § 360.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 360 - TOWNSHIP HALLS|Section 360.1 - Election.

360.1 Election.   1. The trustees, on a petition of a majority of the resident freeholders of any civil township, shall request the county commissioner of elections to submit the question of building or acquiring by purchase, or acquiring by a lease with purchase option, a public hall to the electors thereof. The county commissioner shall conduct the election pursuant to the applicable provisions of chapters 39 to 53 and certify the result to the trustees.   2. The form of the proposition shall be:   Shall the proposition to levy a tax of ............ cents per thousand dollars of assessed value for the erection of a public hall be adopted?   3. Notice of the election shall be given as provided by chapter 49.  [C97, §567; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5574; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §360.1]  2011 Acts, ch 25, §34
IA Code § 360.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 360 - TOWNSHIP HALLS|Section 360.2 - Tax.

360.2 Tax.   If a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the tax, the trustees shall certify such fact to the board of supervisors, and they shall thereupon levy a tax not to exceed the rate voted and not to exceed twenty and one-fourth cents per thousand dollars of assessed value each year for a period not exceeding five years on the taxable property of the township, except that such five-year limitation shall not apply in case of a public hall acquired by a lease with a purchase option. When such tax is collected by the treasurer, it shall be paid to the township clerk; but said clerk shall not receive to exceed one percent for handling said money.  [C97, §568; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5575; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §360.2]
IA Code § 360.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 360 - TOWNSHIP HALLS|Section 360.3 - Transfer of funds.

360.3 Transfer of funds.   When there are funds under the control of a township clerk, raised under this chapter which are not desired for the purposes for which they were raised, the trustees may, by majority vote, order that the full amount of the funds in the account established for that purpose be transferred to the general fund of a school district or districts pro rata in which the funds were raised. The transfer of funds shall be made by the township clerk upon order of the trustees, and the clerk shall dissolve the account from which the transfer is made.  [S13, §592-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5576; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §360.3]  83 Acts, ch 185, §33, 62; 95 Acts, ch 67, §53; 2016 Acts, ch 1015, §1
IA Code § 360.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 360 - TOWNSHIP HALLS|Section 360.4 - Location.

360.4 Location.   Any public hall built under the provisions of this chapter shall be located by the township trustees so as to accommodate the greatest number of the resident taxpayers, and for such purpose the trustees may purchase land not to exceed in value five hundred dollars. They shall also have the power to join with the city authorities of any city within their borders and build and equip said building as a public hall or as a memorial building as provided in section 37.21 under such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon.  [C97, §569; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5577; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §360.4]  Referred to in §360.6
IA Code § 360.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 360 - TOWNSHIP HALLS|Section 360.5 - Construction.

360.5 Construction.   The township trustees or in case of joint ownership, in conjunction with the city authorities shall have charge of the building of such hall, shall receive bids, and shall let the building of the same to the lowest responsible bidder, and the township clerk shall pay out of the funds collected, only on the order of the trustees of said township for the township’s share of the cost thereof.  [C97, §570; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5578; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §360.5]