Pennsylvania Act 1917-213 — FIRST CLASS CITIES, REGULATING FENCES

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FIRST CLASS CITIES, REGULATING FENCES
                 Act of Jun. 22, 1917, P.L. 621, No. 213              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to division fences in suburban and similar districts of
        cities of the first class; regulating the nature, height,
        materials, and kind thereof; defining the same; and in
        certain cases dispensing with the same on whole or parts of
        boundary lines; also prohibiting in the said districts the
        erection of fences or similar structures above a certain
        height, except under a permit.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That in all suburban
     districts of cities of the first class, whether the premises
     concerned in said districts be assessed at rural, suburban, or
     city rates, wherever on improved premises a dwelling-house has
     been or may be erected that is detached or semidetached from the
     dwelling-house on the adjoining premises, and that is separated
     from the street on which it fronts by an intervening front yard,
     lawn, or space, no partition or division fence between such
     adjoining improved premises shall be required on or along that
     part of the boundary line that extends from the building line of
     the said detached or semidetached dwelling-houses to the
     sidewalk or pavement: Provided, That nothing in this act shall
     prohibit any occupant or owner of any such premises from
     erecting a division fence on or along such part of said boundary
     line, at his own cost: And provided, That no such fence shall be
     more than four feet high, without a permit therefor having been
     first obtained from the Bureau of Building Inspection.
        Section 2.  That, in the districts named in section one
     hereof, the division fence between adjoining improved premises,
     required by law, may be boards, palisades, pickets, palings,
     iron, or wire; or may be a wall of brick, stone, or concrete, or
     may be a hedge; or a combination of any of these styles and
     materials, as the owners or occupants of the said adjoining
     improved premises may agree: Provided, That no such fence shall
     be more than four feet high, without a permit therefor having
     been first obtained from the Bureau of Building Inspection.
        Section 3. (3 repealed May 12, 1965, P.L.58, No.45)
        Section 4.  That, owners or occupants of adjoining improved
     premises in said districts shall not be required to erect,
     build, plant, keep or maintain any division fence whatever, upon
     any part of their common boundary line, if they agree to
     dispense with and be without the same.