I guess you better do it then. Did the gas company have a line map for what your previous neighbors did, laying the line?
We just called the police, supposedly they’ll send someone out this evening (although they don’t always respond to our calls to have someone come out, though this clearly is a bit more serious than disturbing the peace). The gas company rep we spoke to covers the entire state, so all they could check for were digging permits (required, and none found). The gas company people would likely have to dispatch someone out here to check where they were going to dig. In any event, our electric company will not permit them to put up anything along the path that they marked out.
My worry was that as it approached Saturday, they were likely to start work again on either digging or building the fence or wall, or whatever. They didn’t have a permit to dig what they did last Saturday (although there likely isn’t anything under where they were digging, it’s not the point, since they’re not supposed to do it without getting the OK).
There’s also the possibility that now that they removed the existing fence, which was actually probably in violation of the 10-feet law (since they severely pruned a tree on their side of the fence because of its proximity to the power lines), they can’t rebuild in that exact spot, and would have to build further up the hill (and there are already trees in the way). Although I was personally angry about the power company’s requirements, especially that we were forced to remove a beautiful blooming tree, the bureaucracy (for once) may work to our advantage.