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When It comes down to it the power company has a right to access their equipment. If there are any power lines crossing the property, more than likely there's an easement for those lines, and thus permission. It would never hold up in court. That doesn't help save me from crazy people though haha
Same with telephone and cable to a point. It's considered a utility and in order to connect you have to have versification to a point.
I wouldn't totally be worried. Vermont has the most lax gun laws in the country and yet there's hardly any crime. GIS is a huge field I'd stay on it. ArcGIS and even Google is trying to get in on it.
The contractor would be allowed on the easement, not hop over a fence. Total thread drift, but it boggles my mind the power company would encourage this. Imagine your kids outside playing, you go in to grab something, as you walk outside you see a strange man climbing over your fence?! Sorry, ridiculous!
Meter readers come by and check the meters regularly in our area. The meters are on the building. Nobody has a problem with it.
This doesn't happen in other parts of the country?
OP isn't talking about reading meters. He's talking about hopping a locked fence to access a different part of the property to inspect/work on the lines/poles installed on private property (within a utility easement).
This is where things get dicey in places like Texas, particularly in South TX. You couldn't pay me enough to do this on a regular basis - if my employer told me to leave a tag on the gate and just jump the fence, I'd laugh so hard I'd probably bruise a rib.
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Originally Posted by veuvegirl
The contractor would be allowed on the easement, not hop over a fence. Total thread drift, but it boggles my mind the power company would encourage this. Imagine your kids outside playing, you go in to grab something, as you walk outside you see a strange man climbing over your fence?! Sorry, ridiculous!
Not really a thread drift, I think it's totally germane to the OP's concerns. If I was out on my property in Boerne with my daughters playing outdoors and I saw some rando climbing the fence, he'd have a .45 cal 1911 in his face and a former MP K-9 on his ass really quickly.
In thinking about it, my neighbor at the Boerne property has the utility easement on the East side of his property, that's where he usually puts his bull. The hell with the guns he's got, I'd worry more about the 1-ton animal that can do 30MPH.
I wouldn't worry about it if you're white. You might get the gun pointed at you, but the trigger won't get pulled.
If you aren't white I'd try to find another job.
We live in Texas, have weapons and CHL licenses. I would NEVER shoot someone that is not a threat to me (even if the law allows, ie, if you are breaking into my car in Texas I have the right to "protect my property")....but if your behind is coming thru my front door, an ENTIRELY different outcome!
I think you will find most Texans equally willing to give anyone a chance, as long as they do not feel a bodily harm threat to themselves or family.
OP isn't talking about reading meters. He's talking about hopping a locked fence to access a different part of the property to inspect/work on the lines/poles installed on private property (within a utility easement).
This is where things get dicey in places like Texas, particularly in South TX. You couldn't pay me enough to do this on a regular basis - if my employer told me to leave a tag on the gate and just jump the fence, I'd laugh so hard I'd probably bruise a rib.
Ahh, got it. Thanks, RW.
To that point, we aren't allowed to put fences or anything else within a utility easement so workers can access what they need to without any problems.
OP isn't talking about reading meters. He's talking about hopping a locked fence to access a different part of the property to inspect/work on the lines/poles installed on private property (within a utility easement).
This is where things get dicey in places like Texas, particularly in South TX. You couldn't pay me enough to do this on a regular basis - if my employer told me to leave a tag on the gate and just jump the fence, I'd laugh so hard I'd probably bruise a rib.
Not really a thread drift, I think it's totally germane to the OP's concerns. If I was out on my property in Boerne with my daughters playing outdoors and I saw some rando climbing the fence, he'd have a .45 cal 1911 in his face and a former MP K-9 on his ass really quickly.
In thinking about it, my neighbor at the Boerne property has the utility easement on the East side of his property, that's where he usually puts his bull. The hell with the guns he's got, I'd worry more about the 1-ton animal that can do 30MPH.
The company we are working for has a policy that If we come across a locked gate we are to leave a doorknocker at the gate, climb the fence and proceed to the front door to let the owner know what we're up to.
I find that incredible. The legal liabilities would be enormous--their lawyers would rolling and gasping in the halls to hear something like that. The company might have an easement, but the execution of that amounts to suing the property owner for refusing entrance through a locked gate. Owners are required to leave the facilities accessible.
Jumping a fence...no. Wait, yeah, jump that fence and then sue the company for wrenching your back. Pay for your kids' college.
OP isn't talking about reading meters. He's talking about hopping a locked fence to access a different part of the property to inspect/work on the lines/poles installed on private property (within a utility easement).
This is where things get dicey in places like Texas, particularly in South TX. You couldn't pay me enough to do this on a regular basis - if my employer told me to leave a tag on the gate and just jump the fence, I'd laugh so hard I'd probably bruise a rib.
Not really a thread drift, I think it's totally germane to the OP's concerns. If I was out on my property in Boerne with my daughters playing outdoors and I saw some rando climbing the fence, he'd have a .45 cal 1911 in his face and a former MP K-9 on his ass really quickly.
In thinking about it, my neighbor at the Boerne property has the utility easement on the East side of his property, that's where he usually puts his bull. The hell with the guns he's got, I'd worry more about the 1-ton animal that can do 30MPH.
One couldn't pay me enough to do this in Maryland or Pennsylvania, let alone Texas. If I were you, I would ask why the top executives of this utility are not out there hopping fences. I would then quit and find a much safer job, like cashiering at an all night convenience store in a not so nice section of a big city.
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