A person who owns, leases, has charge of or possesses a barbed wire fence along a public highway:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-899

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215

1. Shall not permit or allow the wire of the fence to lie loose along or in the highway so as to endanger the safety of a person or animal passing along the highway.

2. Is liable for all damages arising from the loose wire.