ORD-2010-095 - Budget Amendment #5-A - Purchase of a Conservation Easement

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16 Volpe Conservation Easement (South) Draft 11 /19110 with a certificate of insurance coverage on the effective date of this Conservation Easement and within 10 days of each insurance renewal date. 6. ACCESS. No right of access by the general public to any portion of the Easement Area is conveyed by this Conservation Easement. However, the public has the right to view the Easement Area from adjacent publicly accessible areas such as public roads and waterways. 7. ENFORCEMENT. The Grantee shall have the right to prevent and correct violations of the terms of this Conservation Easement. (a) With reasonable advance notice provided to the Grantors or with the Grantor's prior verbal consent, the Grantee shall have the right to enter the Easement Area for the purpose of inspecting for compliance with the terms of this Conservation Easement. The Grantee shall have the right to prevent violations and remedy violations of the .terms of this Conservation Easement through judicial action, which shall include, without limitation, the right to bring proceedings in law or in equity against any party or parties attempting to violate the terms of this Conservation Easement. Except when an ongoing or imminent violation could irreversibly diminish or impair the conservation values of the Easement Area, the Grantee shall give the Grantor written notice of the violation and thirty (3 0) days to cure the violation, before commencing any legal proceedings. The Grantee may obtain an injunction to stop a violation or a threatened violation, temporarily or permanently. The parties agree that a court may issue an injunction or order requiring the Grantors to restore the Easement Area to its condition prior to the violation, as restoration of the property may be the only appropriate remedy. In any case where a court finds that a violation has occurred, the Grantors shall reimburse the Grantee for all its expenses incurred in stopping and correcting the violation, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees. In any case where a court finds no such violation has occurred, each party shall bear its own costs. In any case where the court finds that there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue of either law or fact raised by the losing party, the court may award a reasonable attorney's fee to the prevailing party as provided by law. The failure of the Grantee to discover a violation or to take immediate legal action shall not bar it from doing so at a later time for that violation or any subsequent violations. (b) Grantee shall not bring any action against Grantors for any injury or change to the Easement Area caused by third parties, or resulting from causes beyond the Grantors' control, including, without limitation, fire, flood, storm and naturally caused earth movement, or from any prudent action taken in good faith by the Grantors under emergency conditions to prevent, abate, or mitigate significant injury to life, damage to the Easement Area or harm to the Easement Area resulting from such action. 8. TRANSFER OF EASEMENT. The Grantee shall have the right to transfer, assign, convey, or otherwise to co -hold the Conservation Easement created by this Deed to any public agency or private nonprofit organization that, at the time of transfer, is a qualified Page 10 of 16