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Purple paint = no trespassing
Purple paint = no trespassing
This is a brand new one to me. Is this significant across the country? I’ve been surveying for enough decades that I think it is something I should have known by now. In my state we fortunately have “right of entry” but had I known or ever seen purple paint, I might be a little more cautious in those areas.
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It’s a thing in about 10 or so states. Not in our state yet, but it sounds like a good way to post your property instead of having to put up the signs that easily get torn down.
The APWA standard for purple paint is non-potable water.
My fair city is installing “purple pipe”, in parallel with the standard waterlines, which carries minimally treated water to supply hydrants and irrigation. The pipe is, in fact, purple.
FWIW, the fact that APWA does not identify separate colors for sanitary sewer and storm drains has always bothered me.
Purple paint =No hunting on this land without written permission. Here, that is. Your mileage may vary in a different location.
Make sure you don’t resemble a hunter and you should be fine.
So it’s No Hunting in some places and No Trespassing in others. Click on the states in this list.
https://www.zarebasystems.com/articles/purple-paint-law
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Way back in the day when I was a sailor for our fine country, the JP-5 fuel lines running throughout the ship were painted purple. Almost everything was haze grey or deck grey but a few important things got color coded like that. The JP-5 was helicopter fuel.
According to Bill’s list, my state has not jumped on the purple bandwagon yet. I know a particular 4 year old that will be crushed.
Blue as well…
Maryland Code of Regulations
Sec. 08.01.05.01. Posting Against Trespassing
A. Criminal Law Article, Title 6, Subtitle 4, Annotated Code of Maryland, requires that in order to institute proceedings for trespassing under Criminal Law Article, Title 6, Subtitle 4, the owner or tenant of any private property shall have posted the property against unlawful entry or trespass.
B. The requirement is that:
(1) Signs shall be placed where they may reasonably be seen; or
(2) Identifying paint marks on trees or posts shall be placed at each road entrance and adjacent to public roadways, public waterways, and any other lands adjoining the property. For purposes of this regulation, a paint mark shall be:
(a) A vertical line at least 2 inches in width, and at least 8 inches in length,
(b) Centered at least 3 feet, but not more than 6 feet from the ground, or from the water surface at its mean high tide for tidal water, or its normal level for nontidal water,
(c) Readily visible to a person with normal eyesight who approaches the property, and
(d) Bright blue oil base paint.
Blue paint on a tree in rural Mississippi is for marking the timber harvest bounds, not to be confused with the tract boundary.
(d) Bright blue oil base paint.
Is oil base paint readily available in Maryland? It certainly isn’t here in Colorado….
Jeff D.@notsomuch pretty sure if something is listed these days as “solvent” based it’s, for all intents and purposed, oil based.
It is in Missouri, takes the place of your signs torn down. My nightmare neighbor is getting ready to find out what tearing my sign down means real soon. Here trespassing on posted property is a class B misdemeanor that is up to six months in the county jail and a fine of 500.00.
I hope everyone has a great day; I know I will!@james-fleming I wholeheartedly agree. But that was not the point I was trying to make. My point was that solvent-based paint is not readily available in all areas, especially in Colorado which is my home state.
A professional painter buddy says he can get all the solvent-based paint he wants in Kansas and Nebraska but that is usually not economical on small jobs….
Jeff D.
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