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Also, can you be forced to give an easement?

An easement is a request from either a public or private source to access your property for their benefit. However, with both public and private easements, the entity may take you to court in specific cases and a judge may force the easement on you when they deem it a necessity or relevant.

Additionally, can anyone use a utility easement? An easement gives a person or organization a legal right to use someone else's land—but only for a needed purpose. A utility company may have an easement on your property to access an electrical pole.

Similarly one may ask, should I sign a utility easement?

The bottom line is that developers and builders who are presented with utility company easement forms should not just sign them, but think about the kinds of issues they can present. It is easier to negotiate these concessions up front before the lines go in, than to ask the utility company to amend its easement later.

How close can you build to a utility easement?

Normally an easement will not prevent you from building over or under it. For example, if there is an access way through your property, you probably will be able to put a sewer under it or a structure over it.