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Senate advances bill assigning cost‑sharing for fences along state land boundaries
Summary
Senate File 63 would allow adjoining landowners who neighbor unleased state lands to construct a partition fence and require the Office of State Lands and Investments to pay half the construction cost; amendment changing rulemaking language to the Board of Land Commissioners was adopted and the bill passed the Committee of the Whole.
Senator Crago brought Senate File 63 — titled "State Lands Fencing 2" — to the Committee of the Whole and asked for a favorable report. The bill adds a new subsection within existing fencing statute language to treat state lands similarly to other landowners when a lawful partition fence is required between private property and state land.
Under the bill, when an adjoining private landowner constructs a lawful partition fence along state land that is not leased to the adjacent owner, the Office of State…
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