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The tradition of fencing out unwanted livestock prevails even today in some sparsely populated areas. For example, until the mid-20th century, most states in the American West were called "open range" ("fence out") states, in contrast to Eastern and Midwestern states which long had "fence in" laws where livestock must be confined by their owners.
The first discovery of incorrectly allocated land was in 1884 when surveyor Johnson was instructed to survey a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) Conditional Purchase (No. 83–10) adjacent to the border at Tweed Heads for the NSW Government. [3] The area he surveyed had already been allocated and marked by the QLD Government surveyors.
A fence viewer is a town or city official who administers fence laws by inspecting new fences and settles disputes arising from trespass by livestock that had escaped enclosure. [ 1 ] The office of fence viewer is one of the oldest appointments in New England .
Today, across the nation, each state is free to develop its own laws regarding fences. In many cases for both rural and urban property owners, the laws were designed to require adjacent landowners to share the responsibility for maintaining a common boundary fenceline. Today, however, only 22 states have retained that provision.
The NSW Supreme Court ordered re-run elections in Kempsey, Singleton and Shellharbour Ward A. In Kempsey, the highest placed non-elected candidate from 2021, Dean Saul, was instead one the first councillors elected. [22] This failure caused the NSW Government to suspend the iVote system from use in the 2023 New South Wales state election.
The rural lifestyle land-use designation allows more intense development outside of the county's designated urban services areas, provided certain criteria are met.
The initial land grant to the Church and School Estate, combined with the pastoral holdings of Mackellar, Wilson, Coghill and Maddrell created a distinctive land tenure pattern that remains clearly legible in terms of property subdivision, rural housing density, vegetation patterns, boundary fence divisions and road patterns. [1]
This is a list of local government areas (LGA) of New South Wales in Australia. As of September 22, 2022 [update] , there are 128 local government areas in New South Wales. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]