Delaware County, PA sets no rule on shared or boundary fences. Placement and height are governed by your municipality's zoning code under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, while cost-sharing for a division fence between farm or enclosed land falls under Pennsylvania's Partition Fence Act (53 P.S. §1701 et seq.). Most
Pennsylvania handles neighbor-fence questions at two levels, neither of them the county. Height and location are set by each municipality's zoning ordinance under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, Section 603(b)(3), which lets ordinances regulate "areas, courts, yards, and other open spaces and distances to be left unoccupied by uses and structures" (this is what creates yard and setback rules that govern where a fence may sit). For a shared division fence between adjoining owners of enclosed or agricultural land, Pennsylvania's Partition Fence Act (53 P.S. §1701 et seq.) allows an owner to compel a neighbor to share the cost of maintaining a division fence, with township fence viewers resolving disputes; this statute is historically aimed at rural and livestock parcels.
The county does not enforce neighbor-fence disputes. Zoning-officer enforcement (height, setback, permit) is municipal. Cost-sharing and boundary-line disputes are civil matters between neighbors, potentially involving township fence viewers under the Partition Fence Act or the local magisterial district court.
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