1.
All lots and parcels of land in the subdivision
known as WILD ACRES, PIKE COUNTY, Pa., shall be reserved
and used for single family residential purpose
exclusively, excepting those specifically designated by
the SELLER as multi-residence, condominium, business or
commercial property.
2.
(a) No structure or building of any sort or
swimming pool shall be moved to, erected or constructed on
any plot until a complete set of plans and specifications
has been submitted to and approved in writing by MARCON,
INC., in accordance with the Wild Acres Building Code.
Disapproval of plans and specifications by MARCON, INC.
may be based on any ground including purely aesthetic
grounds. No tent, trailer, or other temporary structure of
any kind may be erected on or moved to any lot or lots.
(b) No
lot shall be cleared of brush, trees, or anything else of
any inflammable nature except after having first obtained
the approval of MARCON, INC. in writing, such approval to
specify the time and manner in which such clearing shall
be made.
(c) No
contractor or workman may enter the premises without first
securing a work permit available at the property office.
3.
No building shall be erected on any plot within 25
feet of the front line of said plot; nor within 10 feet
from the side line of any adjoining owner or street. If a
structure, or any part thereof, shall be built within the
set back area, the same shall be removed unless a variance
permitting the same to remain shall be granted in the sole
discretion of the Developer.
4.
Sewerage from all buildings erected on the premises
(except in Section 19-22) shall be cared for by the owners
or occupants by installing a septic tank which shall at
all times be maintained in a proper sanitary condition, in
accordance with legal requirements. No privy vaults shall
be maintained on said premises.
5.
Dwellings shall be single family type, only one to
be erected on the premises. Private garages in harmony
with the main buildings may be erected but must be at
least 50 feet from the front line of plot, except when
connected directly with main building.
6.
No structure shall extend into the waters of the
lakes, except a flat dock not higher than 2 feet above the
average high water mark, nor extend more than l5 feet
beyond the shore line.
7.
Boats must be anchored no more than l5 feet from
the shorelines when not in use, in order that navigation
of lakes will not be impeded. The
lakes shall be used by no one who is not an owner
of a plot at WILD ARCES, or a guest or member of the
family of such owner, provided they shall first be
approved for honorary membership in Wild Acres Country
Club, Inc. It is distinctly understood that the use of the
lakes for navigation or anchorage is to be at the
risk of the owner of the vessel and MARCON, INC. shall not
be liable for damages or injury resulting from submerged
objects, collision or otherwise. No cutting of boat slips
or other similar excavating within the lot line or
building or bulkhead walls shall be done without the
express written approval of MARCON, INC. The boundary line
of the lake front shall be the high water mark of the
lake.
8.
The Developer for itself, its successors and
assigns hereby reserves without further consent or permit
from the lot owner, his, her, their or its successors in
title, unto itself the right to grant to any public
utility company, municipality or water company an easement
or a right of way granting the right to erect and lay or
cause or permit to be erected, laid, maintained, removed
or repaired in all roads, streets, avenues, ways on which
the lot conveyed abuts, electric light, telegraph and
telephone poles and wires, water, sewer, gas pipes and
conduits, surface drains and such other customary or usual
appurtenances as may from time to time, in the opinion of
the Developer, or any utility company or municipality be
deemed necessary or advisable in connection with the
beneficial use of the lots shown on a plan of the land to
be conveyed hereunder.
Easements
are reserved along and within ten feet of all lot lines of
all the lots for the construction and perpetual
maintenance of electric light, telegraph and telephone
poles and wires, water, sewer, gas pipes and conduits,
surface drains and other public and quasi public utilities
catch basins drainage and to trim any trees which at any
time may interfere or threaten to interfere with the
maintenance of such lines with right of ingress to and
egress from and across said premises to employees of said
utilities. Said easement to also extend along any owner’s
side and rear property lines in cases of fractional lots.
The owner of
more than one lot may build on a common lot line and the
easement shall be inoperative as to said line provided
that such building be placed thereon prior to the
initiation of use of such easement for one of the
foregoing purposes.
All claims for
damages, if any, by the construction, maintenance and
repair thereof, or on account of temporary or other
inconvenience caused thereby against the Developer or any
utility company or municipality,
or any of its agents or servants is hereby waived by the
owned. The
Developer does further reserve the right to change, lay
out anew or discontinue any street, avenue, or way shown
on the plan of development not necessary for ingress, or
egress to and from the premises to be conveyed hereunder,
so long as it does not so in regard to any street, etc. on
which the premises front or abut and permits BUYER to have
access to all other roads in the subdivision section.
No dedication of public use of roads, streets,
avenues, ways or beaches is intended to be made by the
conveyance hereunder.
9.
No structure with an unfinished exterior shall be
permitted to remain on any lot for a period exceeding six
months from the date of the commencement of construction.
10.
No noxious or offensive trade or entertainment,
including the keeping of animals, other than commonly
accepted domestic pets, shall be carried on upon any lot
nor shall any nuisance be maintain thereon.
11.
It is covenanted that MARCON, INC. shall have the
right, after giving five (5) days written notice to the
lot owner to enter upon any lot or lots upon which any
structures or nuisances have been erected or maintained
contrary to any of these covenants and remove said
objectionable structure or nuisance, without liability for
damage for such action, assessing the reasonable cost
thereof against the owner.
12.
No signs of any type, including for sale signs,
shall be erected or maintained on the premises.
13.
(a) Each lot owner agrees to pay to Wild Acres
Country Club, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation, commencing
on the first day of May of the calendar year of his date
of purchase and/or contracting for the purchase of said
lot and on the first day of May of each year thereafter
the sum of at least $150.00 for each lot.
Such charge is intended to cover the expense of
maintaining, protecting and operating the recreational
facilities and the roads in Wild Acres. The Club reserves
the right on thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to a
lot owner, to increase such charge. Any increase shall
bear a reasonable relationship to the increase in costs or
the increase of benefits to the lot owner of Wild Acres
provided thereof.
(b)
The title to all land designated as beach or recreational
areas is expressly reserved and retained by the Developer,
its successors and assigns. The lot owner for himself, his
heirs, successors, administrators, executors, assigns,
guests, or members of his family agrees that the use of
said beach or recreational areas are subject to the
approval of Wild Acres County Club, Inc., and subject to
compliance with the rules and regulations from time to
time formulated by the Wild Acres Country Club, Inc., its
successors and assigns. It being understood that the
annual charge made for beach privileges shall constitute a
lien against each lot heretofore stated, and in the event
that the lot owner shall fail to pay said annual charge
within sixty days after the first day of May of each and
every year, the lot owners herewith for himself, his heirs
and assigns, hereby authorizes and empowers any attorney
of any Court of record to appear for and confess judgement
against the lot owner, his heirs and assigns, for the
amount due, said judgement not to be entered until ten
(10) days’ written notice of said default has been given
to the lot owner, his heirs and
assigns, by United States Certified Mail.
The lot owner, for himself, his heirs, and assigns
agrees that the entry of judgement by the Developer
against the lot owner shall not exhaust the said authority
but that the Developer on the lot owner’s future default
shall have the right to successive entries of judgement. In no event, however, shall the annual lien and charge for
beach privileges and recreational areas as heretofore
stated, be less than $150.00 per annum or such reasonable
additional monies as may be determined in the discretion
of Wild Acres Country Club, Inc., its successors and
assigns. In
addition to the remedies heretofore stated, Wild Acres
Country Club, Inc. shall have the option on failure to pay
the said assessment, as heretofore stated, to prevent the
access and use of the aforementioned facilities by the lot
owner, his heirs, successors, assigns, guests, and family
until payment of the same and this option shall be
enforceable by mandatory injunction.
(c)
The Wild Acres Country Club, Inc., its successor and
assigns shall maintain beaches and perform maintenance in
such manner as the Wild Acres Country Club, Inc., in its
sole discretion may deem advisable and the lot owner, for
himself, herself or their administrators and assigns does
hereby expressly recognize in the Wild Acres Country Club,
Inc., its successors or assigns the right to deny the use
of said beaches and other common use facilities for
violation of such rules and regulations without impairing
the obligation to pay the
charge for the same as herein provided.
14.
The Developer will construct a central water system
providing water service to lots, except lots in Sections
1, 2, 3, 7 and 18. At
or after such time as such service is made available to
the lot, Developer will give written notice to lot
purchaser when such service is available. After
such notice, the purchaser of each lot at which such
service is available shall pay an annual water charge of
at least $40 per lot whether or not such service is
utilized and at least $80 per lot when such service is
utilized, which may be billed on an annual, quarterly, or
monthly basis, at the discretion of the Developer. The
annual water charge shall be payable within 60 days from
the date of such notice, however, the water charge will
not begin earlier than the first of January of the
calendar year following the date of the Sales Contract. Such annual water charge shall be payable within 60 days after
lot purchaser is so notified and will cover the
proportionate part of the calendar year from the date of
such notice to the end of the calendar year. In
addition, a hook up or connection fee of
$95 or the actual cost thereof at the time of such
hook up, if greater, shall be charged for each water
connection made. Developer reserves the right to increase
said rates and charges, provided such increases are in
compliance with and approved by the rules and regulations
of the appropriate state authority.
15.
1. a. The Developer will construct, or cause to be
constructed, a central sewage system providing sewer
service to lots in Section 10 through 22, and the
purchaser of a lot shall pay an annual charge of at least
$60 per lot, as provided herein, whether or not such
services are utilized, as established by Developer, or an
annual sewer rate when such services are utilized, at such
rates, charges and installation costs as may be, from time
to time, established by Developer or public utility
company and approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission. Such
charges may be billed periodically. Lot
purchaser will bear the costs of connection to sewer
facilities at his lot and, in addition , a hook-up or
connection fee of $95
or the actual cost thereof at the time of such hook-up, if
greater, shall be charged for
each sewer hook-up made. Developer
reserves the right to transfer the sewage system and all
rights thereto to a public utility company.
(b) No storm or
surface water or waters from any source may be connected
or drained into the central sewer system.
(c) Purchaser shall
not be permitted to build until central sewage is
available to his lot within Sections 19 through 22,
inclusive. No
individual sewage disposal systems shall be permitted on
any residential lots therein and no approval for
construction of any structure shall be granted until
central sewage is available to purchaser’s lot(s),
within Sections 19 through 22, inclusive.
2.
In consideration for general improvements including
central sewage disposal facilities, to be constructed by
Developer, its successors or assigns, within the area
known as Sections 19 through 22, inclusive, of Wild Acres,
the lot purchaser shall pay to Developer, its successors
or assigns, an amount of $60 annually, beginning with the
month immediately following the date when sewage
collection facilities have been constructed which are
available for use in connection with said lot and payable
periodically thereafter;
provided, however, that irrespective of the fact
that other general improvements shall have been
constructed by Developer,
the foregoing charge of $60 annually shall not be imposed
so long as the lot purchaser shall be a customer of the
public utility sewage company owning and operating said
sewage disposal facilities, and shall pay the rates filed
with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Said
annual charge shall constitute a lien against each lot as
heretofore stated, and in the event the lot purchaser
shall fail to pay said charge within sixty days, the lot
purchaser herewith for himself, his heirs and assigns,
hereby authorizes and empowers any attorney of any Court
of record to appear for and confess judgement against the
lot owner, his heirs and assigns for the amount due, said
judgement not to be entered until ten (10) days written
notice of said default has been given to the lot
purchaser, his heirs and assigns, by United States
Certified Mail. The
lot purchaser, for himself, his heirs and assigns, agrees
that the entry of judgement by the Developer against the
lot owner shall not exhaust the said authority but that
the Developer on the lot purchaser’s future defaults
shall have the right to successive entries of judgment.
16.
Failure to promptly enforce any of the above
restrictions, conditions or covenants shall not be deemed
a waiver of the right to do so thereafter and the
invalidation of any of the above covenants or restrictions
by judgement of any competent Court shall in no wise
affect any of the other provisions which shall remain in
full force and effect.