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Senate Passes Fencing Bill After Debate Over Cost-Sharing and Protections for Low-Income Neighbors

Utah State Senate · February 22, 1991
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Senate Bill 200, clarifying shared fencing responsibilities and exceptions for livestock, passed after amendments addressing affordability and farm/rangeland scope; final roll call recorded 13 ayes, 8 nays, 8 absent.

Senate Bill 200, a measure that clarifies how adjoining landowners share the cost of fencing, was debated at length and amended on the floor before passage. Sponsor Senator Money framed the bill as codifying practices used in neighboring states; critics warned it could force financially unable owners to shoulder half the cost of a neighbor's…

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