Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:35:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Greg Downing Subject: Re: Snowy Owl situation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Even if there is a State right of way it is surely not intended for parking and I for one am not going to argue the point to an already angry homeowner. Greg Downing Parkton, MD gregdowning@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Day" To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:14 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Snowy Owl situation > 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 > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================