Tazewell County, IL Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

049(E) of the zoning chapter addresses these fence materials directly with two rules that work together. First, barbed wire fences and electric fences must be located not less than 10 feet from residential district boundary lines, a setback requirement that applies wherever such fencing is otherwise allowed near a residential district's edge. Second, and more strictly, barbed wire fencing and electric fencing are prohibited from being located in any residential district at all, so the material ban is not merely a setback but a categorical exclusion inside R-1, R-2, RR, and other residential zones.

049, this means barbed wire and electric fencing remain available for their traditional use, containing livestock on farms in the A-1 and A-2 agricultural districts, but property owners in or near residential districts cannot use either material, and even outside residential districts the fencing must be buffered 10 feet from any residential district line. 049(H)(1) still allows farm fencing used for agricultural operations to skip the general permit requirement, but it does not override the separate material and location restrictions in division (E).