Jackson, MS Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 110-15 is short but absolute: it shall be unlawful to build barbed wire fences along the sidewalks on any street within the limits of the city. The prohibition is not limited to a particular zoning district; it applies anywhere a fence would run along a sidewalk on any city street, which in practice covers most residential frontages since Jackson's residential streets are lined with sidewalks. That sidewalk-facing ban sits alongside a broader placement rule in § 110-14. Every fence, wall, other enclosure or marker built between the margin of a street, alley or public way and the abutting land must sit on the boundary line established by the city engineering section of the utilities division of the public works department, or further back on the property side of that line; no fence, wall, terrace, step, platform or other obstruction may project over the line and occupy public property.

Owners can ask the engineering section in writing to mark that boundary line before they build. A review of Chapter 110, the general code chapter covering fences and sidewalks, turns up no separate citywide rule addressing electric fencing for residential lots; the source reviewed for this record does not contain such a provision, so no claim is made about electric fences here. Property owners planning a fence along a sidewalk-facing lot line should confirm placement with the city engineering section before construction, since a fence that crosses the established line, in addition to being built of barbed wire, would violate both §§ 110-14 and 110-15.