(765 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 54, par. 2)
Sec. 2.
Fences four and one-half feet high, and in good repair, consisting
of rails, timber boards, stone, hedges, barb wire, woven wire or whatever
the fence viewers of the town or precinct where the same shall lie shall
consider equivalent thereto suitable and sufficient to prevent cattle,
horses, sheep, hogs and other stock from getting on the adjoining lands of
another, shall be deemed legal and sufficient fences: Provided, that in
counties under township organization, the electors, at any annual town
meeting, may determine what shall constitute a legal fence in the town; and
in counties not under township organization, the power to regulate the
height of fences shall be vested in the county board.
(Source: Laws 1917, p. 527.)
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