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.
Washington Easement for Utilities
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This Easement for Utilities is from Grantor to Grantee for a permanent utility easement and right-of-way with the right to erect construct, install, lay and use, operate inspect, repair, maintain, replace, and rework water lines, water pipe lines, water facilities, manholes, pump stations or other appurtenances that may be required, over, across and/or under a certain parcel of real property as described in the agreement. This agreement can be used in any state.
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Under Washington law, if that fence is in place for ten (10) years, the easement will be terminated. Further, Washington law says that if the same person buys both the property benefiting from the easement and the property burdened by the easement, the easement will automatically be terminated.
There are eight ways to terminate an easement: abandonment, merger, end of necessity, demolition, recording act, condemnation, adverse possession, and release.
If your property is subject to an easement that you wish to dispute, you may be able to pursue a court order that restricts or removes the other party's easement rights. In some cases, you may be able to recover monetary damages to make up for any losses that the easement has caused.
In Washington, a person claiming a prescriptive easement must prove that he or she (and/or a predecessor in interest) used another person's land for 10 years, and the use was (1) hostile; (2) open and notorious; (3) continuous or uninterrupted; (4) over a uniform route; and (5) exclusive.
The short answer is ? the owner of the easement is responsible for maintaining the easement.
Non-exclusive means that a number of different parties can use the easement. Non-exclusive can also mean that additional parties could be granted the right to use that same easement in the future. A common example of a non-exclusive easement is an access or roadway easement in a shopping center.
Prescriptive easements ? To obtain a prescriptive easement in Washington, one property owner must openly, hostilely, and continuously use part of another's land for 10 years without permission. The laws for establishing a prescriptive easement are almost the same as the requirements for establishing adverse possession.
The holders of an interest in an easement must maintain the easement. Nothing prohibits holders from making agreements as to the allocation of maintenance and costs, including agreements that allocate the obligations to fewer than all holders. How costs are shared if there is an agreement.
