Oklahoma is a funny place for "trespassing" in a legal sense.
We have a law against "recreational trespass".?ÿ This does NOT require the use of a vehicle to break this law.?ÿ ?ÿWe also have a law against "aggravated recreational trespass".?ÿ?ÿBreaking this law usually DOES require a vehicle.
Here's one statute.?ÿ The hyperbole is mine (concerning "posted" property):
21 OK Stat ?? 21-1835.5 (2015)
It shall be prima facie evidence that a person is on land for a recreational use if the person is on the land of another without other explanation.
1. The absence of posting shall not by itself be sufficient to imply consent.
2. Consent shall not be implied if the land is posted.
3. It shall be the obligation of the recreational user to establish implied consent as an affirmative defense.
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My interpretation is that trespassing in Oklahoma is being somewhere "you got no damned business" being.?ÿ
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BTW: I believe there is a law in Oklahoma which requires an old wore out tire to used when "posting" property.
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Not always the case
"Maine operates under an implied permission structure, meaning that if land is not posted, it is legal to use the land."
https://www.maine.gov/ifw/programs-resources/outdoor-partners-program/explore.html
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"Barring a town regulation, in Massachusetts you don??t need permission to hunt on private land that is not posted against trespass."
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/hunting-on-private-property-in-massachusetts
Forty beer bottles and a pile of rotting fileted fish carcasses.?ÿ Don't get me started on trespassing fishermen.
Of course, trespassing on old people's property or trampling on their rights in any way is very dangerous.
https://1funny.com/elderly-gangsters/
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I find that its more to prevent someone from feigning ignorance after they get caught...The family farm borders a large tract of state land.?ÿ Between our posted signs and the yellow painted and blazed line you'd think someone would have to be blind to wander across the line but we kick off 10-15 trespassers every single year.?ÿ They all have the same excuse... just play dumb..."I didn't know it was private"
Respect the private land owners, it can be helpful to you if you do. The western states have many conflicts with private vs public lands and the public will wander on and sometimes injure private lands.
There isn't as much of an excuse anymore with available mapping and smartphones to say you are lost.?ÿ
One local recreation area borders a client's property, I was there to do some sectional retracement and never have I found gates as difficult to open. If it wasn't for my winch I couldn't have opened them. The rancher was impressed that I got through, back and was able to put it back up, he takes a fence ratchet to open them. All to try and reduce the public from spreading out into the pasture lands. Frankly the public can be pigs as evidenced by the garbage, broken bottles and even an old couch set up on a hill just north of his fence on the public land.?ÿ
I totally agree.?ÿ I live near a public trail, and it always amazes me that these people who go to the woods to enjoy nature also leave their beer cans, old tarps, and other crap along the trails and in the parking areas.?ÿ I clean it up every so often because it offends me, but I'll never understand their mentality.
Pennsylvania has tons of State Game Lands, paid for out of hunting license revenues. Pennsylvania also has numerous State and some National forests. Pennsylvanai also has State Parks with areas open and others closed to hunting. The no hunting signs would not necessarity follow property lines but varies by major intended usage. Pennsylvania has an agreement with cooperating landowners. If they own more than 50 acres and open it up to public hunting the landowner is entitled to an antlerless deer tag at no charge, plus they get a free subscription to Pennsylvania Game News magazine.
In the past you had to post the land with no trespassing/no hunting signs at regular intervals. This year it is no longer necessary to post signs, a purple paint mark means "no hunting/no trespassing". Saw same over the weekend up in McKean County. Whether or not it is in the right of way it is your tree. To move back to a probable property line would defeat the purpose of visibility. The right to hunt follows deeds to the Penns from Native People's, who were less concerned with owning the land versus the right to use it for life's purposes. National Forest lands were originally Penn Patent lands so there are differences from Federal Land in western states.
Paul in PA
There is a new trail that runs along the property the office occupies. It is a pasture south of the office so there is a bit less than a 1/4 mile that the trail takes up. They had to install a chain link fence with locked gates to keep people out. Otherwise people were entering and horses and cattle would get on the trail with nothing to block them from two busy highways. You have to wonder what kinda person does something like that.
I could have sworn the sign said 'Trespass On'.
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Forty beer bottles and a pile of rotting fileted fish carcasses.?ÿ Don't get me started on trespassing fishermen.
Friend of mine got a tag number of a trespassing party with a trail-cam.?ÿ He was going to mail all the beer cans, bottles and trash back to the truck's registered owner but his attorney suggested he not.?ÿ He had the attorney send a cease-and-desist letter instead along with a photo of all the trash.?ÿ
The photo "inadvertently" showed my buddy from the waist down...along with his "modern sporting rifle" dangling into the pic.?ÿ I thought that was a nice thinly-veiled visual punctuation mark.
And yes the property was posted "No Fishing".?ÿ
Trespass laws and customs vary widely by State. What is acceptable in one place can lead to a felony conviction elsewhere. Know the law and treat owners with respect and you will usually be ok.
A long while back, I bought 15 acres that were initially planned to be phase 2 of a subdivision development.?ÿ It is about half woods/half open and right next to a fully developed subdivision (i.e. houses with families living in them on every lot).?ÿ Even with people that close, I have still pulled a couple of stands down during what Kentucky refers to as "modern gun" season.?ÿ I might could see hunting on that small of a tract with dense residential on one side if it was bow season, but not gun season.
Never heard a peep from anyone about wanting their deer stand back.
England has a fantastic system of public walkway access through private and state land. One could walk forever (or from Pub to Pub).
One odd thing about the Texas trespass laws is this line. If you trespass in someones garden, it's a violation with or without posted signs or other "Notice"
"(E)??the visible presence on the property of a crop grown for human consumption that is under cultivation, in the process of being harvested, or marketable if harvested at the time of entry."
