[meteorite-list] Roadside Hunting and Ownership

From: Count Deiro <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:08:12 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Message-ID: <31672506.1349273293116.JavaMail.root_at_wamui-junio.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Hello Brian and List,

I have had a California, Nevada and Utah Real Estate Broker's License, as well as a Nevada Certified Property Manager's Certificate for nearly fifty years. (NV Broker 000145A)

To bring sanity to claims of land ownership, and in order to have taxes collected from the right owners, and to establish liability, and to provide a means to place liens and establish a chain of title, most all of the United States adopted the "Recordation Method of Providing Public Notification of Land Ownership".

In nearly 100% of the counties in the US...all one has to do to determine the legal ownership of even the smallest parcel of land is to visit the County Recorder's office in person, or online, and the ownership and a wealth of other valuable data is available immediately and for free.

If I found something valuable I would use the GPS to determine the exact physical location and if I was going
to have to provide legal proof of whose land it was I was on, I would obtain a Preliminary Title Report from any state licensed Title or Escrow Company for a small fee. That "Prelim" provides irrefutable proof of land ownership, chain of title, and the existance in priority of any liens and encumbrances, and most important to meteorite collectors, covenants and restrictions running with the land.

Count Deiro
IMCA 3536



-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Burrer <brimane at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 3, 2012 5:52 AM
>To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Roadside Hunting and Ownership
>
>Greetings List,
>
>I have been following with interest the recent chatter concerning BLM
>regulations; questions arise in my mind concerning roadside
>recoveries.
>I would guess that ownership of the find could vary widely depending
>on what roadside it was found on.
>Rural county roads in Texas are typically privately owned; the land
>under the road is owned by individuals who pay taxes on it just like
>the rest of their land. The road is public but the bar-ditch is
>private; ownership clearly falls to the landowner.
>But what about state and federal highway margins; this is not
>typically (maybe ever) BLM land so what rules apply?
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