MN HF2757

Home rule charter or statutory city councils and town boards may exempt adjoining owners or occupants from partition fence requirements when their combined land is less than 20 acres, by resolution.

If eight or more landowners petition a city or town governing body for a vote on a partition fence policy, the governing body may adopt its own policy and procedures for dealing with partition fences, including enforcement procedures.

When a town board adopts a partition fence policy, the policy must be approved by the electors of the town at an annual or special town meeting, at which point state fence-viewing requirements do not apply in that town.

Partition fence requirements apply to boundaries between a political subdivision with its own fence policy and any other political subdivision unless the other political subdivision has adopted a similar policy.