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2016 New York Laws
TWN - Town
Article 18 - (Town) FENCES, STRAYS AND POUNDS
301 - Lands lying open.

NY Town L § 301 (2016) What's This?
  301.  Lands  lying  open.  When the owners of adjoining lands shall
  choose to let them lie open,  as  provided  in  section  three  hundred,
  neither  of  such  owners  shall be liable to the other in any action or
  proceeding for any damages done by animals  lawfully  upon  the  other's
  premises  going  upon the lands so lying open or upon any other lands of
  the owner thereof through such lands so lying open. Either owner of  any
  lands  so  lying  open  and adjoining may, unless the agreement is for a
  specified period, and after such agreement has expired may then have the
  same inclosed, by giving written notice to that effect to the owners  or
  occupants of the adjoining lands, whereupon it shall be the duty of both
  parties  to  build  and maintain their several proportions of a division
  fence.

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