4:20-30 - Fences in highway for preservation of hedges - New Jersey Statutes

4:20-30.  Fences in highway for preservation of hedges
    A person who shall plant a hedge for fencing upon the line of a public highway three rods or more wide, may erect and keep up, for the preservation of  such hedge for a period not exceeding six years from the planting thereof, a  fence of the kind he may choose, out into the public highway at a distance of  four feet from the hedge;  and neither the officer, board or body having control of the highways nor any other person shall, within the six-year period,  remove, destroy or in any manner injure the fence.