Dog, Game, Fish, Stock, Fence, Forestry, Fruit and Stock Food Laws, 1913 By the statute laws of Indiana, everything dedicated to or used by the public for travel upon is denominated a highway. This will include county and township roads, bridges, culverts, fences, fords, plank roads, gravel roads, turnpikes, streets, alleys, street railways, navigable rivers, navigable creeks, tow-paths, etc. The object of the publisher in presenting this work to the public has been to collect, in a cheap and convenient form, the laws governing the highways of Indiana, now in force. To this is added the dog law, game law, fish law, fence, forestry, fruit, automobile and stock food laws, now in force. These laws affect the interests of the entire mass of the people. こ AN ACT concerning highways. [Acts 1905, p. 521. Approved March 8, 1905. In force April 15, 1905.] LOCATION, VACATION AND CHANGE. Highways-Location, Etc.-Petition and Notice. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Indiana, That whenever twelve freeholders of the county, six of whom shall reside in the immediate neighborhood of the highway proposed to be located, vacated, or change therein made, shall petition the board of commissioners of such county for the location, vacation, or change thereof, such board, if satisfied that said petition has been filed with the county auditor and notice thereof has been given by publication once each week for two consecutive weeks successively in a newspaper published in said county, or by posting up notices thereof in three of the most public places in the neighborhood of such highway at least twenty days before the meeting of the board at which petition is to be heard, and, in case of posting, by the auditor mailing a copy of such notice to the postoffice address of each land owner affected by such proceedings, as disclosed by the petition, twenty days before the said day of hearing, providing said postoffice address can be ascertained from any record or files in his office, shall appoint three disinterested freeholders of the county to view said highway. Said notices for publication, posting and mailing, shall be by and over the name of the county auditor. It shall not be necessary for the auditor to mail a copy of said notice to any person who is a petitioner. (As amended. Acts 1907, p. 443.) Highways-Viewers-Boundary Line-New Roads. SEC. 2. The auditor of such county shall issue a precept [precipe] to the sheriff thereof, commanding him to notify such viewers of the time, place and object of their meeting. Such viewers, at such time, after having taken an oath, before some officer authorized to administer the same, faithfully to perform their duties, shall proceed to view the highway to be located, or vacated or the change to be made; and if they shall deem such location, vacation or change to be of public utility, they shall, in case of a new highway or change in an old one proceed to lay out and mark the same on the best ground, not running through any person's enclosure of one year's standing without the owner's consent, unless upon examination a good way cannot otherwise be had without departing essentially from the route petitioned for: Provided, That where the road is laid out upon the line dividing the land of two persons, it shall be laid one-half on each side of such line: and Provided, further, That whenever the location of a highway is petitioned for upon and along any line which forms also the boundary of any |
