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Maine · 17 M.R.S. § 2801
Quote checked October 14, 2026 Text match only; current legal status and enforcement not verified.
“Any fence or other structure in the nature of a fence, unnecessarily exceeding 6 feet in height, maliciously kept and maintained for the purpose of annoying the owners or occupants of adjoining property, shall be deemed a private nuisance.”
This section doesn't print a penalty of its own. Other parts of the Maine Revised Statutes may set one; we haven't looked them up, so we don't state one here.
We didn't find a history note for this section on the official page, so we don't give a year.
Our reading
Maine's statutes have a name for it: the spite fence. A fence, or something like a fence, that's unnecessarily taller than six feet and kept up maliciously to annoy the people next door counts as a private nuisance.
Written by Silly Rules from the quoted text above. It's a plain reading, not legal advice. We haven't researched how courts read this section or how often anyone enforces it.
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