Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:14:21 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Todd Day Subject: Re: Snowy Owl situation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am not a lawyer, but my limited experience with right of ways and easements pertaining to public roads is that the state holds a right of way or easement to a certain amount of feet from the center of the road. Different states, and perhaps counties, might have varying distances from center. What this means as explained to me in Virginia is that the state/county can use that land if they need to, they can clear brush, they can dig a ditch, they can put up a speed limit sign, they can park a vehicle for official business, or things of that ilk. However, it does not give people the right to stand on that land, park on that land, sell lemonade from that land, et cetera, as the state does not own it, they just have a right to it. My experience with this came from someone that kept putting signs on a strip of land in front of an office I used to work in. We resisted, and the person putting the signs up informed us that it is state land due to the right of way. A quick call to an attorney revealed that the state indeed had a right of way or an easement or something, but the signs were illegal as they were trespassing. I am not certain if I have this exactly right, but that is pretty much the gist of how it was explained to me. I would be interested if this isn't the case. Cheers... Todd - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Todd M. Day Jeffersonton, VA Culpeper County BlkVulture@aol.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================