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FENCES (PARTITION)

Boundaries

City boundaries, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.20

Town boundaries, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.14, 344.20

Water boundaries, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.02, 344.10

Building and maintenance

Controversies over

Assignment by fence viewers, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.06

Building of more than assigned share, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.09

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.02

Lands occupied in common, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.11

New enclosures, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.13

Water boundaries, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.10

Costs, equal sharing, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.03

Failure to build, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.04, 344.11, 344.12

Lawsuits, see same under this topic

Maliciously erected or maintained, nuisance, Minn. Statutes 2026 561.02, 561.03

Mechanics and material suppliers liens, see MECHANICS AND MATERIAL SUPPLIERS LIENS

Natural Resources Department land, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.03

Requirement to build, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.03

Building materials, sales and use taxes, Minn. Rules 8130.1200

Cemeteries or burial grounds

Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2026 306.12, 307.082

Removal from, Minn. Statutes 2026 306.12, 307.08, 307.082

Cities

Resolutions exempting small landowners, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.011

Separate city policy, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.20

Collector motor vehicles, outdoor storage, Minn. Statutes 2026 168.10

Cost-sharing, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.03

Damage to

Destruction, passing with recreational vehicle, Minn. Statutes 2026 84.90

Elk, compensation, Minn. Statutes 2026 3.7371

Hunting or fishing, Minn. Statutes 2026 97B.001

Livestock, Minn. Statutes 2026 346.10

Definitions, capitol area zoning and design, Minn. Rules 2400.2040

Ditches, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.02

Divisions of

Assignment by viewers, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.06

Attestation, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.08

Controversies over

Building of more than assigned share, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.09

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.02

Lands occupied in common, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.11

New enclosures, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.13

Water boundaries, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.10

Legal status, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.08, 344.16

Recording, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.08

Woven wire fences, special case, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.02

Electric fences, careless or negligent use around fire, Minn. Statutes 2026 88.195

Farmed cervidae, Minn. Statutes 2026 297A.68

Farmed cervidae, confinement, Minn. Rules 1721.0380

Gates, see GATES

Hedges, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.02, 160.22, 344.02

Highways, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.16, 160.2715

Housing, statutory warranties, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2026 327A.01

Lawsuits

Agreed divisions, failure to maintain, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.04, 344.05

Assigned divisions, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.07, 344.09

Fences maliciously erected or maintained, private nuisances, Minn. Statutes 2026 561.03

New enclosures, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.13

Property damage, Minn. Statutes 2026 306.12, 307.082

Legal fences, types, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.02, 344.08, 344.16

Livestock

Cost-sharing, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.03

Damage by, insufficiency of fence, Minn. Statutes 2026 346.10

Highway passes, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.2715

Materials, cooperative damage management agreements, Minn. Statutes 2026 97A.028

Mine pits or shafts, Minn. Statutes 2026 180.03, 180.10

Mining operations

Deactivation, Minn. Rules 6130.4100

Request for release, Minn. Rules 6130.4700

Nontraditional agriculture, owners, duties, Minn. Statutes 2026 17.03

Nuisances, maliciously erected or maintained fences, Minn. Statutes 2026 561.02, 561.03

Obscuring fences, defined, capitol area zoning and design, Minn. Rules 2400.2040

Railroads, Minn. Statutes 2026 219.31 to 219.34

Shares of adjoining landowners, see Divisions of under this topic

Snow fences, eminent domain, Minn. Statutes 2026 117.21

State-aid highways, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.2715

State Building Code, exemptions, Minn. Rules 1300.0120

Streets and roads, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.16, 219.34

Town roads, placement in rights-of-way, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.2715

Towns

Resolutions exempting small landholders, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.011

Separate town policy, elections, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.20

Town boundaries, fences on, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.14, 344.20

Trunk highways, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.2715

Viewers, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.01 to 344.20

Violations and penalties

Cemeteries or burial grounds, removal from, Minn. Statutes 2026 307.08

Highways, rights-of-way, Minn. Statutes 2026 160.2715

State rail bank property, Minn. Statutes 2026 222.63

Water bank program, Minn. Rules 6115.1250

Waters as fences, Minn. Statutes 2026 344.02, 344.10