SECTION 55-317. Obligation to provide division fences  

Adjoining landowners shall build and maintain, at their joint and equal expense, division fences between their lands, unless one of them shall choose to let his land lie open or unless they shall otherwise agree between themselves.

Code 1950, § 8-887; 1970, c. 713; 1977, c. 624; 2005, c. 873 .