Understanding Property Line Encroachment Laws

Understanding property line encroachment laws is essential to maintaining your auto showroom’s integrity and space management. When you establish a new automobile dealership showroom, your first concern is likely making sales and getting your name out there. However, one dangerous oversight that many new business owners have is neglecting to consider the layout of the dealership’s parking lot and encroachment laws.

As a business owner, you will probably agree that we enter into contracts worth millions of rupees every day that we never put in writing. The most common types of contracts that we enter into are purchase agreements and warranties, but few people give much thought to the boundary lines that divide us from our neighbors. When selling your cars, do you ever stop to think if the person buying your car is legitimately who they say they are? If you take an “as is” approach, you probably do not. But when an encroachment dispute arises at your new showroom, you may wish you had considered your boundaries a little more closely.

So what exactly is an encroachment? An encroachment refers to an intruded upon building or structure like a fence that has been placed over property lines. This can happen when a neighbor mistakenly builds a fence on your land or when a new auto dealership showroom crosses over double lines due to the land being improperly surveyed. The law in all states, including Rajasthan, makes it clear that you are responsible for knowing where your property ends and your neighbor’s property begins. If land is bought and sold and you did not keep up with the new boundaries created, the responsibility now falls on you to have the offending structure moved off of the land it is encroaching upon.

For this reason, it’s important to know your property lines before building or expanding your new car dealership showroom. One way to prevent disputes after you’ve bought the land is to have it professionally surveyed. Your surveyor will be responsible for drawing the map of your land’s boundaries, and any apparent mistakes could have you completely liable for your neighbor’s losses. According to the in depth guide on comprehensive property line encroachment laws, a surveyor has years of education and training, and they may also be responsible for record-keeping and information processing.

Your surveyor can be relied on to look out for your best interests, so it’s best to choose someone with a stellar reputation and to check the accuracy of their work after the survey has been completed. Having a survey done by a professional may save you money in the long run and prevent you from having to spend thousands of rupees relocating factories or parking lots just to get your property lines straightened out. We must always bear in mind that “PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE,” so get the facts straight FIRST before purchasing your showroom space or expanding.