Sewer Easement

A property easement is a legal situation in which the title to a specific piece land remains with the landowner, but another person or organization is given the right to use that land for a distinct purpose.

Sewer easements are common in private property and are mostly located along the rear or front boundary of a property. They exist over a portion of land that contains sewers or sewerage facilities. Council requires reasonable access to these areas and clear access to manholes.

(1) The holders of an interest in any easement shall maintain the easement in repair.

The best way to secure a right of way is by deeded easement. This is a legally enforceable right transcribed in a deed which, if drafted as an "easement appurtenant," will attach to your land, such that the right of way benefits your successors and burdens your neighbor's successors.

A drainage easement is a legal right to use a parcel of land for a specific purpose. In this case, orderly flow of water. They are essential for controlling stormwater runoff and often contain engineered best management practices.

When one of the owners of either the dominant estate which an easement benefits or the servient estate over which the easement runs becomes the owner of both properties, then there is a unity of the two titles, and since an owner does not need an easement over the owner's own property, according to Florida law, the

Easements are dedicated portions of private property dedicated for public use. In the case of sanitary sewer, the easement is a piece of the property where the sanitary sewer main is located and it gives Fox Metro the right to access the property.

Maintenance easement means a binding agreement between the city and the person or persons holding title to a property served by a stormwater facility where the property owner promises to maintain certain stormwater facilities; grants the city the right to enter the subject property to inspect and make certain repairs,