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Your easement

Show me the deed. If it does not say 345-kV and 150 feet, you need new rights.

An easement is not a handshake. Take the book and page and this page to a local eminent domain lawyer before you sign anything. This is not legal advice.

  1. Pull the paper. County recorder. Book and page. Grantor. Year. Photograph it.
  2. Read for these words. "Line" or "lines." A stated width, or none. Voltage or structure language. Tree cutting. Assignment. The name on the grant: Ozark Power and Water (1913), Empire (1927), Liberty (2017).
  3. RSMo 523.283 and 523.282. A bigger use needs new rights and new pay. Blanket easements are void under 523.282. Those statutes cover paper signed after Aug. 28, 2006. Older easements are judged by the old rule: the company cannot pile a bigger burden on the land than it bought. Courts read gaps for the landowner.
  4. Do not sign an "amendment." That is how an old 69-kV strip becomes a 345-kV strip without a fight.
  5. Missouri pay floors. 125 percent within 300 feet of a house. Heritage value for 50-year family land. 150 percent for farmland when the line has a PSC certificate. That last one is why a CCN filing matters.
  6. Thirty days. After formal notice you can propose a different spot on your own parcel (RSMo 523.265).
  7. Oklahoma. Three commissioners. 30 days to object. 60 days for a jury. Fees can shift if you beat the award by 10 percent. No condemnation over 300 kV until the OCC certificate.
  8. Kansas. Three appraisers. 30 days to appeal to a jury. Siting permit required before any taking.