An owner of land, adjacent to a partition fence, shall keep all brush, briers, thistles, or other noxious weeds cut in the fence corners and a strip four feet wide on the owner’s side along the line of a partition fence, but this section does not affect the planting of vines or trees for use.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 971.33

  • Owner: means both of the following:

    (1) The owner of land in fee simple, of estates for life, of easements, or of rights-of-way while used by the owners thereof as farm outlets;

    (2) Any of the following with regard to any land that it owns, leases, manages, or otherwise controls and that is adjacent to land used to graze livestock:

    (a) The department of natural resources;

    (b) A conservancy district organized under Chapter 6101. See Ohio Code 971.01

  • Partition fence: includes a fence that has been considered a division line between two such properties even though a subsequent land survey indicates that the fence is not located directly on the division line. See Ohio Code 971.01

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