Source:  NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 2/12/21


[Farmlaw Editor’s Note:  the piece below is not news, but rather a sidebar concerning development of North Carolina fence law from an upcoming piece on fence law and loose livestock liability.]

A common question from livestock owners and landowners concerns North Carolina’s fence law. The North Carolina statute concerning fencing in agriculture (N.C.G.S. §68-16) is basically a prohibition – under misdemeanor penalty – against not fencing livestock. In other states, fence laws take on a more detailed character- particularly the western United States, where later settlement and vastness of acreage required for livestock grazing allowed for grazing without fencing, and policy there was developed in the face of greater opposition.[1]

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