Has anyone had any experience dealing with issues about Telephone poles and CMP?

I found helpful information in a discussion titled:

BOARDS OBLIGATION TO COMPLY WITH STATE LAW AND OTHER ROAD OBLGATIONS

"talking to CMP they told me that anyone that has power has an agreement to maintain access to lines and CMP equipment year-round for their standard 34,000 lbs. truck. " The attachment was helpful too.

Some people have a utility easement deed, some do not. Some deeds have in their deed/title a statement about types of utilities on their land and some do not.

I believe that when phones where first installed, the company worked with municipalities to install the poles, but of course I wasn't born when phones were first installed. When our association looked at the issue of a telephone pole in the middle of the road (later finding out that it was not in the middle of the road), we had to create an account with CMP.  CMP works with the telephone company. We had both representatives look at the pole and stated that due to prescriptive easements we would have to pay over $10,000 to move it, not including all the other cable companies. 

Does anyone know how to find out about the easements on registry of deeds for the poles or through your municipalities? 

Go to your Registry of Deeds website here:

https://www.maineregistryofdeeds.com/  and click on your county.

Each county's site is a bit different, so if the following instructions don't work, let me know which county you're in and I'll see if I can refine them for you.

Do a search for Central Maine Power, limiting the search to your town.  (If you do NOT put "Co" or "Company" on the end of the name, the search should bring it up whichever way it is listed.)  Make sure it sorts the results by date by clicking on "Date" at the top of the column.  Then look for dates that might be in the time frame where the line would have first been installed.  (Or if you know about when that might have been, you can limit the date range of your search initially.)  Then as you go down the list, look in the names of grantors for anyone who might have owned the land at that time.  If you don't know who lived there then, you may have to trace deeds of some of the current owners backwards to find who owned the land then.  Or it might be in the name of the developer, or in the name of the Town.  You may find there are a LOT of pages to go through, but you won't have to look at every deed.  Where there are several deeds filed on the same date, that's a good indication of a whole line going in, and not just a connection to one house.

Let me know if this works for you.

Yes, my husband says if you give CMP the location and the line numbers from the pole that give the location of the line, they should be able to tell you.   In some cases there may have been a phone line before there was a CMP line, in which case the phone company would have the easement information.  And you are correct that utility line easement information is rarely passed along when a property is sold - but if the easement is questioned, the utility company will bring out the easement deed. 

Unfortunately, it's fairly common for properties to be transferred without even including information about a road easement that crosses the land.  I've seen this happen when someone grants an easement across land they already own.  Then that person dies, and the heirs sell the land without being aware there is a separate deed granting an easement across it.  The buyer is surprised when he finds someone has access across his land.  That's why it's so important when doing a title search to check each former owner as both Grantor and Grantee, to see if any other deeds show up in their name that alter what is later passed on to the next owner.  Surprisingly, I've even seen Title Insurance Companies fail to find such information.