4951.46 Abutting owner may construct and maintain fence. - Ohio Statutes

4951.46 Abutting owner may construct and maintain fence.

If any company or person neglects or refuses to construct and maintain a fence as provided in section 4951.45 of the Revised Code, the owner of any land abutting on the line of the right of way or such person or company may construct the fence, so far as his lands abut on the right of way. When such owner has completed the fence, he may present for payment, to the ticket agent of the company at the station nearest the track so fenced, an itemized statement of the expenses of such construction. If such person or company neglects or refuses for thirty days to pay such account, such landowner may recover the reasonable cost of such fence from the owner of the railroad or railway in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Effective Date: 10-01-1953