Sec. 47-46a. Payment for fence between agricultural property and property in control of Environmental Protection Department.
Sec. 47-46a. Payment for fence between agricultural property and property
in control of Environmental Protection Department. Where there is no fence between
property used for agricultural purposes and adjoining property of the state under control
of the Department of Environmental Protection sufficient for the purposes of section
47-43, or when any fence so located is in need of replacement, and the boundary has
been mutually agreed upon, the adjoining proprietor may, with the written agreement of
the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, executed within sixty days of a written
request by such proprietor, cause such a fence to be constructed or replaced within six
months of the date of the agreement; and the commissioner shall, within sixty days after
the construction or replacement is completed, reimburse the proprietor for one-half the
cost thereof, the state's share not to exceed four dollars a rod, payments to be made in
the order of receipt of applications and completion of projects. Total payments under
this section shall not exceed five thousand dollars in any fiscal year.
(1961, P.A. 558; 1967, P.A. 72; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 205; P.A. 79-530, S. 1, 3.)
History: 1967 act increased state's maximum share in reimbursement from $1 to $2 per rod; 1971 act replaced state
park and forest commission and its director with department and commissioner of environmental protection and revised
reference to maximum for total payments to reflect change from biennial to annual budget; P.A. 79-530 raised state's
maximum share for reimbursement to $4 per rod and raised maximum amount for total payments from $2,500 to $5,000
per fiscal year.