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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 77 - Animals and Livestock
Article 16 - Fences
Section 77-16-1 - [Necessity for fence.] (1909)


NM Stat § 77-16-1 (2013) What's This?

77-16-1. [Necessity for fence.] (1909) 
Every gardener, farmer, planter or other person having lands or crops that would be injured by trespassing animals, shall make a sufficient fence about his land in cultivation, or other lands that may be so injured, the same to correspond with the requirements of the laws of this state prescribing and defining a legal fence.   
  History: Laws 1909, ch. 70, § 1; Code 1915, § 2340; C.S. 1929, § 50-101; 1941 Comp., § 49-1801; 1953 Comp., § 47-17-1. 

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