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• a <br />• Mr. Skelton: Because we have ordinances against them. The <br />permit - permitting section - of the City should <br />take care of this in time. When something wears <br />out, blows away, falls down, or has to be replaced; <br />but if that doesn't work, then perhaps we need a <br />written policy. <br />Mr. Matuszak: I'd like to make a comment, or ask just a question. <br />I understand that in a private life, if you build <br />your fence on somebody else's property for a couple <br />of years - let's say 18 years I think, is something <br />that comes to my mind. I don't know if that's in <br />fact the case, but if your fence is on somebody <br />else's property for a period of let's say 18 years, <br />and no one protests that, that under Texas law, <br />that land is yours. But I also understand that <br />there is an exclusion to this for public <br />right-of-way if this is not the case. If this is <br />the case, then I think this is rather black and <br />white, is it not? I mean that if you can't build <br />on public property, if it's not yours, without some <br />sort of an agreement with the governing body. Then <br />it's rather black and white, is it not, Knox? <br />• Mr. Askins: You're correct. The adverse possession or <br />limitations title laws, it's strictly against <br />private property. You cannot limitate a title <br />against a city right-of-way, street, or an alley, <br />or any other parksite. Anything that is owned by a <br />governmental agency in Texas, regardless of the <br />length of time of use. To the other part of your <br />question, from a legal standpoint any obstruction <br />that is in a public right-of-way, if the City <br />determines that that obstruction is impeding City <br />functions for whatever purpose that right-of-way <br />was, whether it is utilities, or streets, or <br />whatever. The City has a right to what we call <br />summarily abate it, which means that they don't <br />have to go through court or anything just to assure <br />themselves with the proper up-to-date survey. You <br />know that the City is correct as to where the <br />property line is, which means that's where the <br />street right-of-way line begins, and I'll take a <br />very severe case. If someone, and this has <br />happened even in La Porte many years ago. Someone <br />• <br />