2006 Ohio Revised Code - 971.31. Landowner may construct fence to bridges or culverts.

§ 971.31. Landowner may construct fence to bridges or culverts.
 

A landowner along, or through whose lands, a state or county road is laid out and established, upon consent and under the direction of the board of county commissioners of the proper county, may build and construct fences within such roads leading from the sides thereof to, and along the approaches to, and to the ends of the sides of bridges and culverts constructed over streams and ravines in such highways. 
 

No landowner shall acquire title by prescription, or otherwise to any portion of the highways becoming a part of the enclosures of the landowner, by reason of the construction of such fences as authorized in this section. The owner, upon the order of the board of county commissioners, shall promptly remove the fences, but no township highway superintendent, or member of the board of township trustees acting as such, shall remove them except upon permission first obtained from said board. The superintendent shall not interfere with the fences further than is necessary to open ditches and improve the roadbed of such highways. 
 

HISTORY: RS § 4255-1; 97 v 92; GC §§ 5939, 5940; Bureau of Code Revision. Eff 10-1-53.