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Requiring the department of natural resources to comply with requirements governing the erection and maintenance of partition fences
Topics:AgricultureState government
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: House committeeMarch 10, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Skipped: Senate committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 29, 202548–0
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Landowners who must follow Iowa's fence laws would now include the Department of Natural Resources when it owns land. This change ensures the department is treated like any other property owner regarding the building and upkeep of boundary fences.1
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BACKGROUND. Iowa’s fence law (Code chapter 359A) in part governs the construction (erection) or maintenance of a fence existing on the property boundary between adjoining land of different owners, referred to as a partition fence.1A).21). Each party has a duty to maintain an erected partition fence or substitute direct expenses by contribution.22).11). BILL’S PROVISIONS. This bill provides an owner of land subject to Iowa’s fence law includes but is not limited to the department of natural resources when the department is the land’s titleholder.
House subcommittee
Named February 18, 2025. On February 24, 2025 it recommended passage.
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