No statutory shared-cost fence rule. NY RPAPL 843 allows action against spite fences over 10 ft erected to annoy a neighbor. Party fence disputes resolved in civil court.
NY Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law 843 allows a neighbor to sue over a malicious or spite fence over 10 feet that serves no useful purpose and was erected to annoy. Damages and injunctive relief available. No statute requires shared-cost maintenance of boundary fences. Party fences (straddling property line) treated as tenants-in-common at common law. Staten Island property line disputes common due to older unsurveyed lots.
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