4:20-7 - Duty to make and maintain portion of partition fence - New Jersey Statutes

4:20-7.  Duty to make and maintain portion of partition fence
    Where the lands of any 2 or more persons shall join each other and 1 or more  of them are using said lands for the pasturage or keeping of animals, each of  them so using said lands shall make or amend and maintain a just proportion of  the partition fence between said lands except when all of said persons shall  choose to let their adjoining lands lie vacant and open, but no such adjoining  owner shall be required to make, amend or maintain any portion of any such  partition fence, unless he is using his adjoining lands for said purposes.

     Amended by L.1958, c. 45, p. 148, s. 1.