An easement gives one party the right to go onto another party's property. That property may be owned by a private person, a business entity, or a group of owners. Utilities often get easements that allow them to run pipes or phone lines beneath private property. Easements may be obtained for access to another property, called "access and egress", use of spring water, entry to make repairs on a fence or slide area, drive cattle across and other uses. The easement is a real property interest, but separate from the legal title of the owner of the underlying land.
Iowa Sample Letter for Request to Formalize Easement
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Easements give the city and utilities the right to construct and maintain facilities, or infrastructure, in the area of land designated as an easement. They are not required to notify the property owner before they begin work in this area.
Yes, you can usually build on a property easement, even a utility easement. Yet if you value peace of mind over everything else, not building on that easement is the best way to go. The dominant estate owning the easement may need to access the easement.
In Iowa, there is a doctrine known as ?adverse possession? which occurs when a person occupies land to which another person has title with the intention of possessing it as one's own.
Establishing Easements in Iowa Easements by Prescription - To prove the existence of an easement by prescription, a claimant must show that he has used the land over which he claims the easement under claim of right or color of title, openly, notoriously, continuously, and hostilely for a period of ten years or more.
Generally, the owner of any easement has a duty to maintain the easement. If the easement is owned by more than one person, or is attached parcels of land under different ownership, each owner must share in the cost of maintaining the easement pursuant to their agreement.
RIGHT OF ACCESS: Iowa law grants owners of landlocked parcels a right of way through adjacent private land if they initiate a condemnation proceeding seeking access through the ?nearest feasible route.?
