NOTICE: TO ALL MEMBERS AND CUSTOMERS OF BIG HORN RURAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (“BHREC”) HAVING AN BHREC ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION OR TRANSMISSION DELIVERY SYSTEM, OR PORTION OF SYSTEM, VISIBLY ON THEIR PROPERTY, WHICH WAS INSTALLED ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 1, 2006, AND FOR WHICH THERE IS NO VALID EXISTING WRITTEN EASEMENT IN FAVOR OF BHREC.
Pursuant to Wyoming Statute 34-1-159, effective July 1, 2026, BHREC will possess a statutorily established easement for its electricity distribution and transmission system that was installed on your property on or before January 1, 2006. This easement shall give BHREC the following rights:
(1) The right to reconstruct, re-phase, maintain and repair the existing system and the right to trim and remove trees and other vegetation hazardous or reasonably likely to become hazardous to the delivery system;
(2) Access to the easement and ingress and egress shall be limited to the extent necessary to permit the reasonable enjoyment of the rights and privileges granted by this statute unless access or ingress and egress to parts of the easement would be
hazardous to or materially encumbered for the electric utility, in which case the easement may include other reasonable access that minimizes impacts on the Landowner to the extent reasonably possible.
(3) The width of an easement granted under this statute shall be consistent with the historical and traditional use by the electric utility of the delivery system but shall not exceed thirty (30) feet in any direction from the location of the existing line or other
physical components of the system.
(4) BHREC may not expand its use of the easement beyond adjustments consistent with historic uses in a way that would materially increase the burden on the landowner’s property, except when needed to serve a reasonable expansion of use for neighboring or local land uses. Such exception shall not include industrial and manufacturing related increases in wattage.
The full text of Wyoming Statute 34-1-159 is available at BHREC’s website https://bighornrea.com/
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