ConstitutionCowboy
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Think About This:
Property comes with mineral rights which extend down to the center of the Earth. Those mineral rights can be sold to someone else, or exploited by the owner, or the owner may receive a royalty for allowing someone else to mine those minerals. Now, what about the air above the surface of your land? Do you own the airspace above your land? Do you receive a royalty every time a plane flies over your land? No.
Now, what about the space above a parking lot? By definition and designation, that surface is specifically set aside to park vehicles. Does a corporation own the airspace above the surface of the lot? Then consider that your vehicle is in that airspace and not protruding into the ground where those mineral rights exist. Your vehicle is in contact with that ground but it has not violated the integrity of that ground, nor has your vehicle invaded the space below the surface where those mineral rights exist, nor has your vehicle become part of that land.
The business with the parking lot has already given up that surface(or rented the use of that surface in the case of a commercial parking lot) for use by its employees or customers to the benefit of the business, and that is as far as it goes. No one owns the space above their land or above any improvements(buildings) on the land. Ergo, a business would have no control over what is in your property that has been parked on the surface of that land you have been invited to leave your property on. It would be well within their power to limit what vehicles would be allowed on that property(no 18 wheelers, nothing above a certain weight, no Sherman tanks, etc), but not what is inside that which is not their property.
Woody
"The Right of the People to move about freely in a secure manner shall not be infringed. Any manner of self defense shall not be restricted, regardless of the mode of travel or where you stop along the way, as it is the right so enumerated at both the beginning and end of any journey." B.E.Wood
Property comes with mineral rights which extend down to the center of the Earth. Those mineral rights can be sold to someone else, or exploited by the owner, or the owner may receive a royalty for allowing someone else to mine those minerals. Now, what about the air above the surface of your land? Do you own the airspace above your land? Do you receive a royalty every time a plane flies over your land? No.
Now, what about the space above a parking lot? By definition and designation, that surface is specifically set aside to park vehicles. Does a corporation own the airspace above the surface of the lot? Then consider that your vehicle is in that airspace and not protruding into the ground where those mineral rights exist. Your vehicle is in contact with that ground but it has not violated the integrity of that ground, nor has your vehicle invaded the space below the surface where those mineral rights exist, nor has your vehicle become part of that land.
The business with the parking lot has already given up that surface(or rented the use of that surface in the case of a commercial parking lot) for use by its employees or customers to the benefit of the business, and that is as far as it goes. No one owns the space above their land or above any improvements(buildings) on the land. Ergo, a business would have no control over what is in your property that has been parked on the surface of that land you have been invited to leave your property on. It would be well within their power to limit what vehicles would be allowed on that property(no 18 wheelers, nothing above a certain weight, no Sherman tanks, etc), but not what is inside that which is not their property.
Woody
"The Right of the People to move about freely in a secure manner shall not be infringed. Any manner of self defense shall not be restricted, regardless of the mode of travel or where you stop along the way, as it is the right so enumerated at both the beginning and end of any journey." B.E.Wood
