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0"7.3 <br /> "ATTACHMENT" <br /> Pertinent provisions in the August 4, 1967 deed from Lake <br /> Orange, Inc.. to Orange County include: <br /> 1. The "Traverse 615' contour" together with the dam clearing <br /> and spillway control area sets the outer boundary of the <br /> property conveyed to the County. <br /> 2. All recreational and related rights and uses are reserved <br /> exclusively to Lake Orange, Inc. including the exclusive <br /> right to construct, maintain authorize, control and super- <br /> vise boat launching, docking, fishing piers, and landing <br /> facilities and boat housing on said property. <br /> 3. The 620' contours measures the outer boundary of a flood <br /> easement granted to the County. It grants the County a <br /> permanent and perpetual easement to temporarily "flood" <br /> between the 615 ' and 620" contours, which encompasses <br /> "only such flooding as shall proximatel y result from <br /> freshets and other unusual or prolonged forms of precipi- <br /> tation. " <br /> 4. The County also has an easement to ingress, egress, and. <br /> regress between 615 ' and 620' contours for inspection of <br /> this property and to the entire lake as well. <br /> 5. Fin=lly the deed gives the County a "first refusal" clause <br /> for purchasing the recreation rights and easement. "The <br /> First Party (Lake Orange, Inc. ) hereby forever binds <br /> itself and its successors--assigns to sell neither the <br /> shaded areas of said plat nor rights and easement herein <br /> reserved unless and until First Party has offered in <br /> writing to sell sale for each to Second Party (Orange <br /> County) at the same price offered by proposed purchase and <br /> unless and until the Second Party has failed to <br /> unconditionally accept in writing said offer within thirty <br /> days of the date said offer to sell is first delivered to <br /> any member of the Orange County Board of Commissioners. " <br />