Section 67.43 - Ordinances and laws; fence viewers. - Michigan Statutes

THE GENERAL LAW VILLAGE ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 3 of 1895

67.43 Ordinances and laws; fence viewers.

Sec. 43.

The council is authorized to enact all such ordinances and laws as it may deem proper relative to the building, rebuilding, maintaining and repairing of partition fences by the owners and occupants of adjoining lots, enclosures and parcels of land in the village; and relative to the assigning to the owners or occupants of such adjoining pieces of land, the portion of such partition fences to be maintained by them respectively; and may provide for the recording of such assignments and divisions when made; and may provide for the recovery of damages from any owner or occupant who shall fail to comply with the provisions and requirements of any ordinance relative to such partition fences. And the council may appoint fence-viewers and prescribe their duties and mode of proceeding in all cases relating to partition fences in the village.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895 ;-- CL 1897, 2811 ;-- CL 1915, 2682 ;-- CL 1929, 1591 ;-- CL 1948, 67.43