Has anyone tried to regulate mail boxes in the County right-of-way? If we allowed folks to build some brick and concrete pillar the size R2-D2 can we make'm tear it down just by telling them to do so?

I had a raised flower bed around mine on a FM road for two years...this summer, TxDOT gave me the option of moving it post haste, or having it, shall we say, removed!

Seems to me that if the construction interferes with the required use of the ROW, the county can move in.

Don't expect to be liked....I was pretty mad!

This is an issue we are having also. Is there any authority to remove? If so, where is it? Also, is there a criminal penalty and where is that?

I haven't checked this out, but I think there are federal rules regulating where and how mail boxes must be placed. Just a thought.

Is there a federal law which prohibits planting flowers around the steel T-post that holds the mail box? BTW, I have a big ugly concrete ROW marker right in the middle of our property. I asked the TxDot man if I could pull it up or move it, and he went into full bore linear panic. My MIL has one in her yard as well. A year or so ago, I accidentally hit it, causing it to list at a 45 degree angle. TxDot has never seemed to pick up on that! Is there room for a new legal specialty here..."mail box law?"
Sic-em Russ!

This is why God invented motorgraders.

The commissioners are considering a brochure to be given out when the septic permits are issued, covering this and other issues. However, with regard to those R2-D2 pillars already erected, how have y'all been handling the demolition? Anyone come up with a way to explain it in terms of TXDOT regulation? Also, what's the county's liability if some kid smashes into one of these at 50 mph?

Have any of you found any solutions? Some of the mailboxes are 12 inches from the road!

[This message was edited by Etta Warman on 11-14-06 at .]

You might remind the mailbox owners that if a car hits the mailbox, the mailbox owner WILL be sued, and will likely be held liable for the wrongful and negligent injury caused to the poor person who he should reasonbly forsee couldn't stay on the road.