Easements, Policy for Utility

Purpose:

 

To clarify the policy of the Regents regarding utility easements

 

Date Approved:

 

December 7, 1973

 

Background:

 

At the December 1973 meeting of the Board of Regents, a request by the Texas Electric Service Company, Fort Worth, Texas, for an overhead electric distribution line across a 48.195 acre tract of land within the west campus of The University of Texas at Arlington was postponed.  Instead, upon motion of Regent Shivers, the following policy regarding easements throughout the U. T. System was adopted:

 

 

Utility Easement Policy

 

 

All utility easements shall be put underground; in case it is absolutely necessary to have an overhead line, the easement will contain a provision that upon the University's request the grantee will relocate the line underground.

 

 

Last reviewed September 2000