The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
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FARM CROSSINGS, CATTLE GUARDS, FENCES, AND WATERCOURSES
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 3642)
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§ 3642. Fences; construction and maintenance
(a) A person or corporation owning or operating a railroad shall construct and maintain
on the sides of its road, when completed and in running order, a good and sufficient
fence, along land of an operating farm adjacent to the railroad.
(b) Whenever the owner or occupant desires to pasture livestock on land adjacent to the
railroad not then used for pasturing livestock and desires the railroad to erect the
portion of the fence next to the tracks, he or she shall fence the portion of that
land that is not adjacent to the railroad, and the railroad shall construct the portion
of the fence adjacent to its tracks within five days of notice to it from the owner
or occupant that his or her portion of the fence has been completed and shall maintain
that fence so long as the adjacent land is used for pasturing livestock. (Amended 1977, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 24, 1978.)