Purple is often a royal color. In most literary texts, purple is a color that shows wealth, royalty, and status. In Alabama its now showing posted private property and no trespassing is allowed. For years trespassers have torn down posted signs in order to greedily cross property boundaries without risk of prosecution. Alabama legislature approved Senate Bill 416 adopting a "purple paint" law for landowners. The purpose of this new law is to amend the definition of "trespassing" found in the Code of Alabama, Title 13A,Chapter 7, Section 1.
The definition of "posting in a conspicuous manner" now includes painting vertical stripes of purple paint upon trees or posts along the property line. The full definition of the new posting rule is "POSTING IN A CONSPICUOUS MANNER. A sign or signs posted on the property, reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders, indicating that entry is forbidden or the placement of identifying purple paint marks on trees or posts on the property, provided that the marks satisfy all of the following:
1. Are vertical lines of not less than eight inches in length and not less than one inch in width.
2. Are placed so that the bottom of the mark is not less than three feet from the ground or more than five feet from the ground.
3. Are placed at locations that are readily visible to any person approaching the property and are no more than 100 feet apart on forest land or 1,000 feet apart on land other than forest land."
We recommend painting your boundary lines every 7 years with a good forestry tree paint, and now instead of traditional yellow, red, or blue go with PURPLE.
To make it easier to access your property lines for maintenance, consider using a forestry brush mulcher to install fire lanes.
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