Where does my private property end?

[Sidearm.40]

My house is within 1000 ft of a school zone (it's right across the street from my home). While I understand that I can carry on my private property; my question is where does "private property" stop and "public property" begin? Am I considered "on public property" when a step onto the area between the sidewalk and the street, or does my "private property" exclusion extend to the street? Just not wanting to get arrested and cited for carrying while mowing my lawn!!

[gollbladder13]

IANAL, but during a political debate I heard on the radio (I think it was 620, IIRC), the property laws regarding posting political signs were touched on because of somebody posting a sign the city ordered him to take down.

From what I remember, your property extends to the sidewalk. The stretch between the sidewalk in the street is your responsibility to care (shovel snow, cut grass, etc), but is considered public property, therefore you have no rights to post political signs there, and I would imagine this translates also to guns.

Just my 2 cents...

[Doug Huffman]

It depends on your jurisdiction and its platting.

In some places one owns to the property line and pays for and maintains the sidewalk and curb and enjoys reduced tort liability. In other jurisdictions, mine, one owns to the property line but suffers an easement for the public right of way and has no liability for torts there upon.

I do not believe that the government should 'own' any property.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth.

[Nutczak]

This question shows just how stupid and how little thought went into the process of draftingthe 1,000' school exclusion rule.

[J.Gleason]

Doug Huffman wrote:

It depends on your jurisdiction and its platting.

In some places one owns to the property line and pays for and maintains the sidewalk and curb and enjoys reduced tort liability. In other jurisdictions, mine, one owns to the property line but suffers an easement for the public right of way and has no liability for torts there upon.

I do not believe that the government should 'own' any property.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth.

Doug, can they make you take the sign down legally even if it is on the easement or is that a violation of free speech?

[Doug Huffman]

Signs on public property and including the right of way, easement or not, are prohibited in some jurisdictions.

We know that the tyrant would like to control what is signed on private property.

[ROOK_WI]

Sidearm.40 wrote:

My house is within 1000 ft of a school zone (it's right across the street from my home). While I understand that I can carry on my private property; my question is where does "private property" stop and "public property" begin? Am I considered "on public property" when a step onto the area between the sidewalk and the street, or does my "private property" exclusion extend to the street? Just not wanting to get arrested and cited for carrying while mowing my lawn!!

Have a plat survey done of your property - I had towhenI had a fence put up. I know exactly what is mine, and what is property of the city that I mow and make believe is mine.

The little orange flags leave no grey area of what is yours.

[Citizen]

Nutczak wrote:

SNIP...shows just how stupid and how little thought went into the process of draftingthe 1,000' school exclusion rule.

The error lies in thinking it was drafted as a legitimate law at all.

Read the legislative intent, finding, pre-amble. It is completely bogus, which immediately tells you it wasn't drafted for legitimate concerns or with anything in mind but the underlying purpose of the panderers and despots.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wba...hool_zones.txt

[J.Gleason]

Sidearm.40 wrote:

my question is where does "private property" stop and "public property" begin?

OMG, I just can't resist!..........At the edge!

[Sidearm.40]

J.Gleason wrote:

Sidearm.40 wrote:Â*

my question is where does "private property" stop and "public property" begin?

OMG, I just can't resist!..........At the edge!

Yeah, but which edge??:P:P

[bnhcomputing]

The SAFEST bet is to consider the sidewalk as "public" and everything from the sidewalk to the road inclusive is public.

That may not be the case, but if you go on that, you WILL BE SAFE.

So up to but not including the sidewalk or alley way.

[Sidearm.40]

bnhcomputing wrote:

The SAFEST bet is to consider the sidewalk as "public" and everything from the sidewalk to the road inclusive is public.

That may not be the case, but if you go on that, you WILL BE SAFE.

So up to but not including the sidewalk or alley way.

That's how I've been treating it. If I am going to be on or past the sidewalk I leave my weapon in the house and retrieve it after I get back into the house.

Thanks, everyone who replied...including Mr. Smart*** Gleason I figured if any group could confirm what I thought was right it would be you guys!!

[Hillmann]

In some areas the entire front yard is concidered public, I can't rember what city it was but earlyer this summer or spring it made the news that some city was raising money by giving parking tickets to people parked in there own driveways because it is concidered public property all the way back to the set back (how close to the road you are allowed to build). I don't think it was in Wisconsin but it just goes to show poloticians do whatever they wan't regardless of law and common sence

[Citizen]

Sidearm.40 wrote:

J.Gleason wrote:

Sidearm.40 wrote:

my question is where does "private property" stop and "public property" begin?

OMG, I just can't resist!..........At the edge!

Yeah, but which edge??:P:P

The one you don't want to go over.