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CC&R ARTICLE XIII: GENERAL PROVISIONS
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Section 1. Covenants Running with the Land. The covenants, conditions, and restrictions, easements, rights, liens, and encumbrances herein provided for shall be covenants running with the land and shall be binding upon the Subdivision and any and all parts thereof, the parties in interest thereto and their heirs, assigns, personal representatives and successors in interest. Accepting an interest in and to any portion of the Subdivision shall constitute an agreement by any person, firm or corporation accepting such interest, that they and each of them shall be bound by and subject to the provisions hereof.
Section 2. Amendment of Declaration. In addition to specific amendment rights granted elsewhere in this Declaration, until conveyance of the first Lot to a person other than a builder, Declarant may unilaterally amend this Declaration for any purpose. Thereafter, Declarant may unilaterally amend this Declaration if such amendment is necessary (i) to bring any provision into compliance with any applicable governmental statute, rule, regulation, or judicial determination; (ii) to enable any reputable title insurance company to issue title insurance coverage on the Lots; (iii) to enable any institutional or governmental lender, purchaser, insurer or guarantor of mortgage loans to make, purchase, insure or guarantee mortgage loans on the Lots; or (iv) to satisfy the requirements of any local, state or federal governmental agency. However, any such amendment shall not adversely affect the title to any Lot unless the Owner shall consent in writing.
In addition, so long as Declarant owns property described in Exhibit "A" for development as part of the Properties, Declarant may unilaterally amend this Declaration for any other purpose, provided the amendment has no material adverse effect upon any right of any Owner or unless such Owner shall consent in writing.
Except as otherwise specifically provided above and elsewhere in this Declaration, this Declaration may be amended only by the affirmative vote or written consent, or any combination thereof, of members representing sixty percent (60%) of the total votes in the Association, and Declarant's consent, so long as Declarant owns any property subject to this Declaration or which may become subject to this Declaration in accordance with Section 8 of this Article.
Notwithstanding the above, no amendment to this Declaration involving the responsibility to maintain the Common Maintenance Areas may be made without the prior written approval of the City of Auburn. All amendments must be filed with the office of the King County Auditor.
Section 3. Enforcement. The Association, the Board, or any Owner shall have the right to enforce, by any legal proceeding, all restrictions, conditions, covenants, reservations, liens and charges now or hereafter imposed by the provisions of this Declaration.
Section 4. Attorney's Fees. In the event that it is necessary to seek the services of an attorney in order to enforce any (1) provision of this Declaration or (2) lien created pursuant to the authority of this Declaration, the individual against whom enforcement is sought shall be obliged to pay any attorneys' fees incurred. If the Owner fails to pay such fees within sixty (60) days, such fees shall become a lien against the Owner's lot.
Section 5. Successors and Assigns. The covenants, restrictions and conditions articulated in this Declaration shall run with the land and shall accordingly be binding on all successors and assigns.
Section 6. Severability. In the event that any provision hereof shall be declared to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, no other provision shall be affected thereby and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of the breach of any provision hereof shall constitute a waiver of a subsequent breach of any provision hereof or constitute a waiver of a subsequent breach of the same provision or of any other provision. No right of action shall accrue for or on account of the failure of any person to exercise any right hereunder nor for imposing any provision, condition, restriction or covenant which may be unenforceable.
Section 7. Rule Against Perpetuities. In the event that any provision or provisions of this Declaration violate the rule against perpetuities, such provision or provisions shall be construed as being void and of no effect as of twenty-one (21) years after the death of the last surviving incorporator of the Association or twenty-one (21) years after the death of the last survivor of all the incorporators' children and grandchildren who shall be living at the time this instrument is executed, whichever is later.
Section 8. Other Parcels Will be Governed by Declaration. Declarant reserves the right, but is not obliged, to add other parcels to the Properties. Declarant reserves the right to determine the number and location of any Lots within the other parcels.
If any Other Parcels are added to the Properties, all of the Other Parcels shall be governed by this Declaration. The character of the improvements which may be later added to the Properties on other parcels shall be compatible with improvements already existing on the Properties; provided, however, that Declarant may develop the other parcels for any lawful purpose that is allowed by applicable laws and regulations. All easements for ingress, egress, utilities and use of facilities, unless otherwise specifically limited, shall exist in favor of all Owners in the Other Parcels.
During the Development Period, the addition of Other Parcels to the Properties shall occur when the Declarant files for record an amendment to this Declaration legally describing the Other Parcels. The voting rights of the existing Lot Owners shall be adjusted at the time Other Parcels are added to the Properties only to the extent the total number of votes is increased by the number of Lots added, and the percentage which one vote bears to the total is thus diminished.
Section 9. Failure of Board to Insist on Strict Performance No Waiver. The failure of the Board in any instance to insist upon the strict compliance with this Declaration or Rules and Regulations of the Association, or to exercise any right contained in such documents, or to serve any notice or to institute any action, shall not be construed as a waiver or a relinquishment for the future of any term, covenant, condition, or restriction.
Section 10. Limitation of Liability. So long as a Director, Officer, Committee member, Association agent, or Declarant acting on behalf of the Board or the Association, has acted in good faith, without willful or intentional misconduct, upon the basis of such actual information as is then possessed by such person, then no such person shall be personally liable to any Owner, or other party, including the Association, for any damage, loss or prejudice suffered or claimed on account of any act, omission, error, negligence (except gross negligence), any discretionary decision, or failure to make a discretionary decision, by such person in such person's official capacity, provided that this Section shall not apply where the consequences of such act, omission, error negligence are covered by insurance or bonds obtained by the Board pursuant to this Declaration.
Section 11. Indemnification. Each Director, Officer, Committee member, and Declarant shall be indemnified by the Association, including the Lot Owners, against all expenses and liabilities, including attorneys' fees, reasonably incurred by or imposed in connection with any proceeding to which such person may be a party, or in which such person may become involved, by reason of holding or having held such position, or any settlement thereof, whether or not such person holds such position at the time such expenses or liabilities are incurred, except to the extent such expenses and liabilities are covered by insurance actually obtained by the Board and except in such cases wherein such Director, Officer, Committee member or Declarant is adjudged guilty of willful misfeasance in the performance of his or her duties; provided that in the event of a settlement, the indemnification shall apply only when the Board approves such settlement and reimbursement as being for the best interests of the Association.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the Declarant herein, have hereunto set their hand(s) and seal(s) this 16th day of June, 2015
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