§ 24-10-02 — Cattle guards - Construction - Maintenance - Effect

Before any cattle guard and gateway may be erected across any highway or section line as
authorized in section 24-10-01, the board of county commissioners or board of township
supervisors, as the case may be, shall approve written specifications of the cattle guard and
gateway. Specifications approved by the board of county commissioners must be filed with the
county auditor and specifications approved by the board of township supervisors must be filed
with the township clerk. The specifications must include requirements for warning signs to be
placed approximately three hundred feet [91.44 meters] from and plainly visible to persons
approaching the cattle guard upon the highway or section line. A cattle guard must be so
constructed as to permit the passage of motor vehicles through and over the same. No cattle
guard may be erected upon any highway or section line unless there also is provided adjacent
thereto an ample gateway in which must be erected a gate which may be opened easily and
closed by the public. The person who applied for permission to erect the cattle guard shall
maintain the cattle guard and gateway, unless application is otherwise assigned. Within the
limits of an enclosure so completed by authorized cattle guards erected in accordance with such
specifications, livestock must be permitted to run at large without liability for being upon the
highway or section line.