2006 Ohio Revised Code - 971.03. Hedge, barbed wire or electrified wire partition fence forbidden.

§ 971.03. Hedge, barbed wire or electrified wire partition fence forbidden.
 

(A)  A person or corporation shall not have a willow or other live fence, except osage or blackthorn hedge. 

(B)  No person or corporation shall construct or cause to be constructed, a partition fence from barbed wire or electrified wire unless written consent of the adjoining owner is first obtained. Such consent is not necessary to the use of one or two barbed wires, provided that neither is less than forty-eight inches from the ground, and is placed on the top of a fence other than a barbed wire fence. 

(C)  Landowners may construct fences along controlled-access highways or limited access highways. As used in this division, "controlled-access highway" has the same meaning as in section 4511.01 of the Revised Code and "limited access highway" has the same meaning as in section 5535.02 of the Revised Code. 

(D)  Each thirty-day period that a violation of division (B) of this section continues constitutes a separate violation. 
 

HISTORY: RS § 4239a; 91 v 148; 95 v 470; 97 v 139; GC § 5909; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 137 v H 1061 (Eff 3-8-79); 142 v H 240. Eff 6-29-88.