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2017 Idaho Statutes
Title 6 - ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES
Chapter 2 - WASTE AND WILFUL TRESPASS ON REAL PROPERTY
Section 6-202 - ACTIONS FOR TRESPASS.
Universal Citation: ID Code § 6-202 (2017)
6-202. Actions for trespass. Any person who, without permission of the owner, or the owner’s agent, willfully and intentionally enters upon the real property of another person which property is posted with "No Trespassing" signs or other notices of like meaning, spaced at intervals of not less than one (1) notice per six hundred sixty (660) feet along such real property; or who willfully and intentionally cuts down or carries off any wood or underwood, tree or timber, or girdles, or otherwise willfully and intentionally injures any tree or timber on the land of another person, or on the street or highway in front of any person’s house, village, or city lot, or cultivated grounds; or on the commons or public grounds of or in any city or town, or on the street or highway in front thereof, without lawful authority, is liable to the owner of such land, or to such city or town, for treble the amount of damages which may be assessed therefor or fifty dollars ($50.00), plus a reasonable attorney’s fee which shall be taxed as costs, in any civil action brought to enforce the terms of this act if the plaintiff prevails. Provided however, the owner or operator of any right-of-way or easement for any ditch, canal or other conduit governed by the provisions of chapter 11 or chapter 12, title 42, Idaho Code, who is found in violation of this section shall be liable only for actual damages and not for any treble damages or attorney fees otherwise provided for under this section.
History:
[(6-202) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 473; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 4531; C.S., sec. 6958; I.C.A., sec. 9-202; am. 1976, ch. 155, sec. 1, p. 553; am. 2013, ch. 62, sec. 2, p. 138; am. 2015, ch. 298, sec. 1, p. 1178.]
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