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Committee pauses prescriptive-easement bill after landowner and utility concerns
Summary
Senate File 87, which would create statutory prescriptive easements for electricity delivery where unrecorded historic access exists, was discussed at length and laid back for rework after landowner attorneys and cooperative representatives urged clarifications on scope, upgrades and due process
Senate File 87, a proposal to provide prescriptive easements for electricity delivery to address access to older, unrecorded lines, was debated at length in the Wyoming Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee before sponsors agreed to lay the bill back for reworking.
Sponsor Senator Ed Cooper said the measure stems from rural electric associations that face access problems when lines were installed by “handshake” agreements generations ago and later land ownership changes left utilities without recorded easements. Sean Taylor, executive director of the Wyoming Rural Life Association, told the committee the intent is modest: to allow crews access…
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