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Senate Judiciary advances bill to formalize prescriptive easements for rural electric lines
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee reported Senate File 99 favorably after stakeholders and utilities agreed to language allowing prescriptive easements for long-standing, visible electricity delivery lines while preserving landowner rights; the bill passed the committee 5–0.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on the final committee day voted to advance Senate File 99, a measure that would create a narrow statutory path for prescriptive easements on long-standing electricity delivery facilities, saying it would help rural utilities maintain safety and reliability while protecting landowner rights.
Sponsor Senator Cooper introduced the bill and turned the floor to Sean Taylor, executive director of the Wyoming Rural Electric Association, who told the committee the measure is intended to ‘‘clean up these old handshake deals’’ by giving utilities defined authority to maintain, repair and, in some limited cases,…
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