TOWN OF CLEVELAND
POLICY ON MAILBOXES
At the February 11, 2008 meeting the Cleveland Town Board adopted the following
policy:
Rural mailboxes have been allowed on the highway right of way as a matter of
convenience to the adjacent land owners or occupants and not as a matter of property
owner right. Encroachments upon the highway right of way are governed by Section
86.04 of the Wisconsin State Statutes which state in part as follows:
“If any highway right of way shall be encroached upon, under or over by any fence stand,
building or any other structure or object, …….the town board (in the case of a town
road)……may order the occupant or owner of the land through or by which such
highway runs, and to wich the encroachment shall be appurtenant, to remove the same
beyond the limits of such highway within 30 day.”,
It is the intention of this policy that if a mailbox is accidentally damaged in
the process of removing snow, mowing the right of way, graveling the
shoulder or by any other act of maintaining the right of way, it is the
landowners or occupants obligation to repair or replace the mailbox.
Exception is that if the mailbox is directly struck by the equipment
performing the above mentioned work that Cleveland Township will furnish
and install a similar sized standard US mailbox or large standard US
mailbox and a standard wooden support post as needed to replace the
existing mailbox.
Further, the above policy shall also be applicable to tubes or boxes for
newspaper delivery with the exception listed above not applicable. Such
tubes or boxes are required to be located adjacent to the mailbox if any. If
no mailbox is present, then the tubes or boxes shall be located on the same
side of the roadway as are the mailboxes which serve other property owners
along the route.