Purple Paint Now Legal to Use to Mark Trees for “No Trespassing” Purposes

[Lumber_Jack]

According to new state legislation passed during this past session of the General Assembly, purple paint is now allowable as an alternative to signs to mark “No Trespassing” areas. Purple paint may be used on trees and posts to indicate “No Trespassing.” To review the law passed by Senator Frank Niceley (R) Strawberry Plains & Representative Roger Kane (R) Knoxville, access the General Assembly website at: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/HB0078.pdf

 

 

[KahrMan]

Very nice.  That will make marking property a lot easier.

[Randall53]

I thought it meant deer crossing and was a good place to hunt. 

[MikeW]

Color blind much ...

[bersaguy]

I can promise you my father would have got shot or arrested for trespassing because he was completely color blind. If he was sitting at a stop light that was laying sideways instead of up right my monther would have to tell him when to stop and go and he made sure he never traveled any roads that had those type of stop lights by himself. One thing I do wish I had that he had. Being color blind gave him great night vision without needing to use a flash light very often.

[Randall53]

I guess they'll have to write it like this: PURPLE  

[Ronald_55]

So am I covered if I stencil this in purple?

 

[peejman]

14 hours ago, KahrMan said:

Very nice.  That will make marking property a lot easier.

Except that the vast majority of people will have no idea why that purple paint is on those trees. 

[bersaguy]

2 hours ago, peejman said:

Except that the vast majority of people will have no idea why that purple paint is on those trees. 

Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law sayeth the Judge. Pay the clerk and you can leave. That is for the lucky ones that don't either get shot at or actually get shot for trespassing. I have no clue why they chose purple in the first place. All the TN Game Reserve trees have yellow paint and most farmers I know or knew always used red paint to mark their boundary line trees. Maybe they thought the color purple would be a more gender friendly color. Pink would have been to much!!!!....................jmho

[DaveTN]

You can’t shoot a trespasser. And they probably won’t be arrested unless there is special circumstances or they have been given a trespass warning. I assume this is merely a way of letting people know you are on private property and they don’t want you there.

[Ronald_55]

You can't shoot a trespasser.....unless no one finds out. At least that was the rule where I grew up.

[bersaguy]

GEEZZ sheriff.......... I have no idea how he got shot!!!! Must have got shot by another hunter trespassing on my property.................

[10-Ring]

11 hours ago, peejman said:

Except that the vast majority of people will have no idea why that purple paint is on those trees. 

Unfortunately, roughly 100% of the people that need a sign to tell them to stay off of someone else's property will ignore the sign anyway.

[Ronald_55]

4 hours ago, 10-Ring said:

Unfortunately, roughly 100% of the people that need a sign to tell them to stay off of someone else's property will ignore the sign anyway.

That is why we should help Darwin out and thin them out some. Plus it is good for the soil....

Edited July 2, 2017 by Ronald_55

[Luap]

Purple paint has been used in Arkansas for years to mark private or leased land. Owning several acres, we resprayed/remarked twice a year, before turkey season and before deer season.  Every hunter and land owner new exactly what purple meant.  "Off limits" without permissions.

 

The only place i ever been or known that was painted purple, where absolutely nothing was off limits or untouchable was the Platinum Plus aka know as the Purple Church. 

[nightrunner]

What's so wrong with a No Trespassing sign? 

Even when I hunted, I didn't go unless I owned the land or had permission.

What was the law before this new purple paint law? I seriously don't know and am asking. Where I grew up we just used common courtesy. And fear of getting shot if you didn't respect that.

[KahrMan]

2 hours ago, nightrunner said:

What's so wrong with a No Trespassing sign? 

Even when I hunted, I didn't go unless I owned the land or had permission.

What was the law before this new purple paint law? I seriously don't know and am asking. Where I grew up we just used common courtesy. And fear of getting shot if you didn't respect that.

Nothing wrong with them.  The problem is to be legally posted you have to have them listed every x feet along your property line.  It can get expensive.  Plus people tear them down and then you are not legally posted.  Much cheaper and harder to remove if it is just paint.

[Sidecarist]

I was told by TWO officer that I had to have a sign every 50ft, and it was suggested that I fill in between the signs with blue paint on trees. It appears that purple paint replaces the signs. I'll still use signs, but it's a fact that paint is hard to remove from a tree...

[ReeferMac]

I share 2 property lines w/ TWRA public-accessible wildlife area's (bowhunting permitted). I can't even find the border in some cases, but yes, signs do get expensive!

 

- K

 

[Sidecarist]

Like it or not I have issues with ginsing hunters, as well as traditional hunters that have no respect for property lines and will be having my property surveyed for accurate placement of all signs and paint. After reading all this I'll be discussing with the surveyor blazing the property lines with purple paint as part of the process.

[bersaguy]

I was thinking that Gun Buster signs might be just as good but I guess not because most Ginsing diggers don't pack guns so I guess that was a bad idea..........

[Spiffy]

On 7/1/2017 at 8:26 PM, 10-Ring said:

Unfortunately, roughly 100% of the people that need a sign to tell them to stay off of someone else's property will ignore the sign anyway.

 

yeah it's a really hard concept for some "hunters", and regular people too, that if you don't pay land taxes on it then stay the hell off of it.  The whole "well it wasn't posted" excuse......your yard isn't posted and no one just hauls out lawn chairs and grill and has a BBQ.

[Ronald_55]

2 minutes ago, Spiffy said:

 

yeah it's a really hard concept for some "hunters", and regular people too, that if you don't pay land taxes on it then stay the hell off of it.  The whole "well it wasn't posted" excuse......your yard isn't posted and no one just hauls out lawn chairs and grill and has a BBQ.

I say front yard or back 40, if it is your land and they are not supposed to be there, it constitutes a risk to your personal safety. Asking them nicely to leave is not required.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I have actually had people come onto family property and demand we give them a certain tree that they say belongs to them. Seems there great, great uncle on their mother's side told them when they were a child, 50+ years ago, they could have that tree when he died and now they are here to collect since he has passed. A lot of people these days have ZERO respect for anything they did not pay for or put effort into. If I borrow something it goes back in as good a shape or it is replaced. I have lent out a bunch of stuff over the years and you would not believe how people treat your stuff. Often comes back way worse or they get upset that you won't just let them keep it. Lent a quad rail out last year, it came back with two cross threaded screw holes and a few screws missing. He wanted to borrow it for a "week or two" but it took over 6 months to get it back.

 

[bersaguy]

1 hour ago, Dolomite_supafly said:

I have actually had people come onto family property and demand we give them a certain tree that they say belongs to them. Seems there great, great uncle on their mother's side told them when they were a child, 50+ years ago, they could have that tree when he died and now they are here to collect since he has passed. A lot of people these days have ZERO respect for anything they did not pay for or put effort into. If I borrow something it goes back in as good a shape or it is replaced. I have lent out a bunch of stuff over the years and you would not believe how people treat your stuff. Often comes back way worse or they get upset that you won't just let them keep it. Lent a quad rail out last year, it came back with two cross threaded screw holes and a few screws missing. He wanted to borrow it for a "week or two" but it took over 6 months to get it back.

 

This is just be an assumption on my part but I bet those people did not get that tree they were claiming was theirs...................