The following  Conditions, Covenants, and Restrictions are contained in an instrument recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Pike, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on July 12, 1973 and various other dates. They shall be perpetual unless otherwise specified and shall apply to the entire subdivision known as POCONO MOUNTAIN WOODLAND LAKES.

 

1.      The premises hereby conveyed shall be sued for residential purposes only. No building shall, be erected, altered, placed or permitted to remain on the premises hereby conveyed other than one (1) detached single-family dwelling, not to exceed one and one-half (1 ½) stories in height and a private garage for not more than two (2) cars.

2.      No building shall be located on any lot nearer than 120 feet to the front line or nearer than fifteen (15) feet to any side yard line or nearer than thirty (30) feet to any combined side yard or nearer than twenty-five (25) feet to any rear lot line.

3.      Easements for installations and maintenance of utilities and drainage facilities are reserved over the front ten (10) feet of each lot and side and rear five (5) feet of each lot.

4.      No structure of any temporary character, trailer, basement, tent, shack , garage, barn or other out-building shall be used on any lot at any time as a residence, either temporarily or permanently.

5.      No animals, livestock or poultry of any kind shall be raised, bred or kept on any lot, except that a dog, cat or other household pet may be kept provided that they are not kept, bred or maintained for any commercial purpose.

6.      No lot shall be used or maintained as a dumping ground for any rubbish, trash, garbage or other waste shall be kept in sanitary containers.  NO motor vehicle or any substantial part of one shall be kept on any Lot unless they are currently licensed for operation on public highways.

7.      No individual water supply system shall be permitted on any lot or building site unless such system is located, constructed and equipped in accordance with the requirements, standards and recommendations of the State and /or local public health authorities.

8.      No individual sewage disposal system shall be permitted on any lot or building site unless such system is designated, located and constructed in accordance with the requirements, standards and recommendations of the State and/or local public health authorities.

9.      No building or structure, including water and sewage disposal system shall be erected upon the premises hereby conveyed without first obtaining the approval, in writing, of the seller, as to location, elevation, plan and design.  The seller shall approve or disapprove the said location, elevation, plan and design within fifteen (15) days after the same have been submitted.  Such approval will not be unreasonably withheld and is subject to the requirements, standards and recommendations of the State and/or local public health authorities.

10.  No excavation shall be made on the premises except for the purpose of building thereon and only the time when building operations are to commence.  NO earth or sand shall be removed from the premises, except as part of such excavation, without the written consent of the seller, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

11.  Purchaser shall not clear the lot of brush or trees or do any burning of any nature, whatsoever, except after having first obtained the approval of the Seller, in writing. Such approval to specify the time and manner in which such clearing or burning shall be done.

12.  Until dedicated to public use, title to the portion of the lands of the Seller laid down on maps as streets, shall remain in the Seller subject to the right of the Purchaser and others and those claiming under them, to use the same for ingress and egress to and from public roads and subject to the right of the Seller to maintain or grant the right to maintain water mains, sewer pipes, street drains, gas mains, fixtures for said private street, roadways and right of ways or some of them to Pocono Mountain Woodland Lakes Community Associations, which may be formed in the future or any other group, company or corporation designated by the Seller.

13.  The Purchaser agrees not to permit signs for advertising purposes to be erected or maintained on the premises.

14.  The Purchaser agrees to join the Pocono Mountain Woodland Lakes Association, if, as when same is formed and to maintain such membership and pay one (1) such annual fees and dues as the Association may by its By-Laws prescribe, (ii) such assessments as the Association may charge for the repair and maintenance of the streets and roads and other common facilities, if any.  It is understood and agreed that the Seller, being a member of the Association by virtue of the lands owned by the seller, will not be liable for such annual fees and dues, assessments and charges. The Purchaser hereby agrees to require as a condition precedent to the sale of the premises hereby conveyed, that any subsequent Purchaser shall join the aforesaid Association.

15.  Until such time as grantee joins the Property Owners Association and begins paying its charges and dues, each lot owner shall pay to the seller the sum of ninety ($90.00) dollars per year for road maintenance, snow removal, etc...

16.  Anyone making a nuisance of himself or herself, shall at the discretion of the Seller, be denied the privileges at the recreational facilities for a limited period of time.

17.  It is covenanted that the Seller shall have the right after giving five (5) days notice to the Purchaser, to enter the premises upon which any structure or nuisance having 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.

18.  All sewage disposal systems shall be constructed in accordance with recommended standards of the public health authorities, sewage disposal systems will not be installed within fifty (50) feet of any body of water or water course, or within ten (10) feet of any lot line.

19.  All corner lots shall be subject to sight easements over a triangle, the legs of which are thirty (30) feet measured along the street right of way lines from their point of intersection.

20.  The seller shall have the right to charge, amend or modify these covenants so long as the change, amendments or modification  does not alter the residential nature of the development or deprive  the purchaser of his frontage or of ingress or egress over the street  or road upon which his lot fronts to a public highway or road.

21.  Failure to promptly enforce any of the foregoing restrictions, conditions or covenants shall not deem a waiver of right to do so thereafter, as to any continuing subsequent or other violation.