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Committee hears public testimony on bill to allow limited neighbor access to repair livestock fences
Summary
Representative Ken Hayden sponsored House Bill 1116 to let livestock owners enter up to 10 feet onto adjoining property to repair or maintain division fences; the committee heard testimony from agricultural groups and an attorney and did not take a vote.
Representative Ken Hayden introduced House Bill 1116 and the Missouri House Agriculture Committee held a public hearing on Oct. 12 to consider changes to state fence law intended to help livestock owners repair and maintain division fences.
The bill would allow an owner with livestock to enter up to 10 feet onto an adjoining parcel to build, repair or maintain a fence, provided the entrant does not damage standing crops and limits removal of vegetation to what is necessary on the line. The sponsor and supporters said the change is aimed at practical problems created by absentee landowners and denser nonfarming ownership patterns.
“Cows out, neighbors mad, history, my fence, can't fix,” Representative Ken Hayden said in introducing the proposal,…
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