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CHAPTER 7 MISCELLANEOUS T4PICS Right-of-Way Easements For a pipefine company to construct and maintain a pipeline through a piece of property, the company has to either own the property or secure a right-of-way easement from the property owner. Such easements allow pipeiine company personnel ar�d equipment access to the property for the purposes of laying/reiaying pipe, inspection, clearing, repairing, and maintaining the pipeline. Qver the years, such easements have changed from a description of a greater section of land to a smaller parcel of prope�ty. A typicaf right-of-way easement is as follows: RIGHT QF WAY AGREEMENT For and in consideration of the sum of $ , paid by Pipe Line Company of , the receipt of which is hereby acknowledge does hereby grant to Pipe Line Company, its successors or assigns, the right to lay maintain, operate, re-lay and remove at any time a pipe line or pipe lines #or the transportation of oil or oil products, gas and water, and if necessary, to erect, maintain, operate and remove telegraph and telephone lines, witF� right of ingress and eg�ess to and from the same, on, over and through certain lands situate in the County of and State of and described as follows: Section , Township , Range Property owners wishing to know about pipeline easements on their property should read the abstract for their property. Encroachment Webster defines encroachmeni as the gradual intrusion or infringement upon the proper�y or rights of another. An example of encroachment is shown in Figure 6. U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipelir�e Safety Regulations req�ire pipeline operators to have and implement a program to observe surface conditions on and adjacent to the pipeline right-of-way for leaks, construction activity, and other factors affecting pipeline safety and operation. Line Markers DOT Pipeline Safety Regulations 192 and 195 require line markers to be placed and 7-'E