Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 359A.3 (2026)

Notice and hearing

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The fence viewers shall give five days’ notice in writing to all parties to the controversy. The notice shall prescribe the time and place of the hearing to decide any and all matters that are part of the controversy as described in the notice. Upon request of any landowner, the fence viewers shall give the notice to all adjoining landowners liable for the erection, maintenance, rebuilding, trimming, or cutting back, or repairing of a partition fence, or to pay for an existing hedge or fence. The notice must include the names of the fence viewers and state whether a fence viewer disclosed a possible conflict of interest or whether a substitute fence viewer was appointed due to a fence viewer’s disqualification pursuant to section 359A.2A. [C51, §896, 898, 902, 909; R60, §1527, 1529, 1533, 1540; C73, §1490, 1492, 1496, 1503; C97, §2356; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1831; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §113.3] C93, §359A.3 2018 Acts, ch 1081, §3 Referred to in §359A.4, 359A.5

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 2007–2017 · leading case: Longfellow v. Sayler, 737 N.W.2d 148 (Iowa 2007).

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Longfellow v. Sayler, 737 N.W.2d 148 (Iowa 2007). · cites it 3× “Iowa Code §§ 359A.3, .4, .9 (2003). 2 Three trustees, acting as fence viewers, came out to the fence line and viewed the fence.”

Jerry D. Longfellow Vs. Hal Sayler (Iowa 2007). · cites it 3× “Iowa Code §§ 359A.3, .4, .9 (2003).2 Three trustees, acting as fence viewers, came out to the fence line and viewed the fence.”

Matthew Jay Hopkins v. John Robert Dickey (Iowa Ct. App. 2017). “§ 359A.3. Section 359A.18 describes what a “lawful fence” shall consist of, and section 359A.”

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