RESTRICTIONS AND COVENANTS, GOVERNING PROPERTY AND LOTS IN QUAIL VALLEY, EL DORADO SECTION, AN ADDITION IN FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS
which is
OWNED BY FARM AND HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION,
THE STATE OF
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
COUNTY OF
THAT, WHEREAS, MacNaughton & Co., Trustee, (hereinafter called MacNaughton & Co.) a Texas corporation, agent and attorney in fact for Farm and Home Savings Association, Nevada, Missouri, acting through its duly authorized officers for the purpose of creating and carrying out a uniform plan for the improvement and sale of property and lots in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, an addition in Fort Bend County, Texas, according to the plat thereof recorded in Volume seven (7), Page One (1) of the Map Records of Fort Bend County, Texas; and MacNaughton & Co. desires to restrict the use and development of said property and lots in order to insure that it will be a high-class restricted residential district;
NOW, THEREFORE, MacNaughton & Co., acting through its duly authorized officers, does hereby impose the following restrictions upon the said property and lots included within Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, which restrictions upon the said property shall constitute covenants running with the land and with each and every property owner or lot owner in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, for their benefit and for the benefit of MacNaughton & Co., and any beneficiary hereunder shall have the right to enforce such restrictions using whatever legal method deemed advisable.
A.
General Land Use
All lots in
No piers or construction of any kind will be permitted to intrude into the water of the lakes shown on the recorded plat, and no power boats of any kind, electric or otherwise, shall be permitted or used on said lakes.
B.
Covenants Applying to Residential Lots
1. Land Use and Building Type:
Lots nine through sixteen, inclusive, in Block Twelve, Lots one through thirteen, inclusive, in Block Fourteen, Lots one through eight, inclusive, in Block Seventeen, and Lots One through Five, inclusive, in Block Twenty-one may be used for single family or duplex, two-family, residential purposes. No other lots shall be used for any purpose except for single family residential purposes. The term “residential purposes”, as used herein, excludes hospitals, clinics, apartment houses, boarding houses, hotels and commercial and professional uses, whether from homes, residences or otherwise, and all such uses of the lots are expressly prohibited. No building shall be erected, altered, placed or permitted to remain on any lot, except duplex houses on the specific lots listed herein, other than one single family dwelling not to exceed two stories in height and a private garage for not more than four cars and permitted accessory structures. Construction and sales offices may be constructed on specific lots as designated by the Architectural Control Committee. These shall be removed by December 31, 1980.
2. Architectural Control:
No building or other improvements shall be erected, placed or altered on any lot until the construction plans and specifications and a plan showing the location of the structure or improvements have been approved by the Architectural Control Committee as to use, quality of workmanship and materials, harmony of external design with existing structures, and as to location with respect to topography and finish grade elevations. The Architectural Control Committee is composed of three members whose names are Jack B. Miller, Thomas H. Overstreet and J. H. MacNaughton. A majority of the Committee may be designated and representative to act for it. In the event of death or resignation of any member of the Committee, the remaining members shall have full authority to designate a successor. Neither the members of the Committee nor its representatives shall be entitled to any compensation for services performed pursuant to this covenant. The herein granted powers and duties of the Architectural Control Committee shall cease and terminate Twenty (20) years after the date of this instrument, and the approval required by this paragraph shall not be required unless, prior to said date and effective thereon, the then record owners of a majority of the lots subject hereto shall execute and file for record an instrument appointing a representative or representatives, who shall thereafter exercise the same powers and duties granted herein to the Architectural Control Committee. The Committee’s approval or disapproval as required herein, shall be in writing. If the Committee, or its designated representatives, fails to give written approval or disapproval within thirty (30) days after plans and specifications have been submitted to it, or in any event, if no suit to enjoin the construction has been commenced prior to the completion of the improvements, approval will not be required and the related covenants shall be deemed to have been fully satisfied. The Architectural Control Committee, at its sole discretion, is hereby permitted to approve deviations in building area and location in instances where, it their judgments, such deviation will result in a more commonly beneficial use. Such approval must be granted in writing and when given will become a part of these restrictions.
3. Dwelling Size and Construction:
The livable area of each duplex building shall not be less than 2,000 square feet apportioned as not less than 1,000 square feet per living unit, and the livable area of each main single family residential structure, exclusive of open or screened porches, stoops, open terraces, garages, or detached servant quarters shall not be less than 1,600 square feet on all lots in Blocks Fourteen (14) and Fifteen (15); not less than 1,800 square feet on all other lots that do not adjoin or abut lakes and golf course reserves and not less than 2,000 square feet on all lots that do adjoin or abut lakes and golf course reserves.
4. Building Locations
No building shall be located on any lot nearer to the front lot line or nearer to the side street lot line than the minimum building setback lines shown on the recorded plat. In any event, no building shall be located on any residential building plot nearer than 25 feet to the front lot line, nor nearer than 10 feet to any side street line, unless otherwise noted on the recorded plat, nor nearer than 5 feet to the rear lot line, nor nearer than 3 feet to any side lot line. On all the lots where the lots adjoin or abut lakes and golf course reserves no garages, or any other building, shall be constructed, placed or erected closer than twenty-five feet (25) of the rear property line, nor within five feet of any side or interior lot line. On these lots no garage, attached or detached shall have their opening facing the rear of the property. On all lots, except those listed above, detached garages located on the rear portion of the lot may be built within three feet of any side lot line, or interior lot line, except in those instances where the location of the garage in this manner would violate a dedicated easement.
No clothesline shall be constructed, placed or erected on the lots adjoining the golf course, which clotheslines would be visible from the golf course.
Residential buildings on corner lots shall face the street upon which the lot fronts as shown by the recorded map of the subdivision. The front of the lot is the property line having the smallest dimension on a street. On certain irregular shaped corner lots, the facing of the residences is hereby declared to be under the supervision and control of the Architectural Control Committee hereinbefore named.
No fence or wall shall be erected, placed, altered or maintained on any building site nearer to the front property line than the minimum building setback line shown on the recorded plat of the subdivision. Also no fence or wall shall be erected, placed, altered, or maintained at any other location without written approval of the Architectural Control Committee.
Any garage located on any building site so that the front wall of said garage is within forty (40) feet of the front wall of the main residence shall be constructed so that the overhang of the garage roof shall be at least five (5) feet over the opening of said garage. Any garage located so that the front wall of the garage is more than forty (40) feet to the rear of the front wall of the main residence may have a normal overhang over the garage opening.
5.
Lots may be re-subdivided into building sites comprised of a part of one or more lots as plotted, PROVIDED that no dwelling shall be erected or placed upon any building site containing less than seventy five hundred (7500) square feet in area or having a width of less than seventy (70) feet at the front building setback line shown on the recorded plat of said subdivision.
6. Nuisances:
No noxious or offensive activity shall be permitted upon any lot, nor shall anything be done thereon which may be or become an annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood.
7. Temporary Structures:
No structure of a temporary character, trailer, basement, tent, shack, garage (except for living quarters contained therein for bona fide servants), barn or other outbuildings shall be used on any lot at any time as a residence either temporarily or permanently.
8. Signs:
No signs of any kind shall be displayed to the public view on any lot except one sign of not more than 5 square feet advertising the property for sale or rent, or signs used by a builder to advertise the property during the construction and sales period.
9. Oil and Mining Operations:
No oil drilling, oil development operations, oil refining, quarrying or mining operations of any kind shall be permitted upon on in any lot, nor shall any wells, tanks, tunnels, mineral excavations or shafts be permitted upon or in any lot. No derrick or other structures designed for use in boring for oil or natural gas shall be erected, maintained or permitted upon any lot.
10. Livestock and Poultry:
No animals, livestock, or poultry of any kind shall be raised, bred or kept on any lot except that not more than two (2) dogs, cats or other household pets may be kept provided that they are not kept, bred, or maintained for any commercial purposes.
11. Garbage and Refuse Disposal:
No lot shall be used or maintained as a dumping ground for rubbish. Trash, garbage and other waste shall be kept in sanitary containers. All incinerators or other equipment for the storage or disposal of such material shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
12. Land Near Parks and Water Courses:
No building shall be placed or shall any material or refuse be placed or stored on any lot within 20 feet of the property line of any park or edge or any open water course, except that clean fill may be placed nearer provided that the natural water course is not altered or blocked by such fill.
13. Sewage Disposal and Water Supply:
No water well, cesspool or other individual sewage system shall be constructed or used on any lot, but each lot owner must use the water and sewer services provided until such time as those services are furnished by State, County, Municipal or other governmental authorities.
14. Cutting Weeds and Drainage:
Grass, vegetations and weeds on each lot shall be cut as often as may be necessary in order to maintain the same in a neat and attractive appearance. Likewise, all drainage ditches shall be maintained in the same manner and shall be unobstructed at all times. Any bridge or culvert constructed over property line ditches shall be of concrete pipe and a minimum of 18 inches in diameter, unless the depth of the ditch shall require a larger size for proper drainage.
15. Terms:
These covenants of restrictions are to run with the land and shall be binding on all owners of lots in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, and all persons claiming under them until January 1, 1992, after which time said covenants and restrictions shall be automatically extended for successive periods of 10 years unless an instrument signed by a majority of the then owners of the lots is filed for record in Fort Bend County, Texas, altering, rescinding or modifying said covenants and restrictions in whole or in part.
16. Maintenance Fund:
Each lot shall be subject to a maximum monthly maintenance charge of not more than Ten Dollars ($10.00) per lot for the purpose of creating a fund to be known as Quail Valley Fund, Inc., and which maintenance fund charge shall be paid by the owner of each lot in conjunction with like charges to be paid by all other lot owners. Such maintenance charge may be adjusted by Quail Valley Fund, Inc. from year to year as the needs of the property may, in its judgment, require, but in no event shall such maintenance fund exceed $120.00 per lot per year. The maintenance charge is hereby fixed at a maximum amount of Fifty and No/100 Dollars per year beginning with the first day of the calendar month following the date of certification by Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam, Consulting Engineers, of completion of subdivision improvements consisting of concrete streets, curbs, gutters, storm sewers, sanitary sewer lines and water mains in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, with the amount to be a proration of said Fifty and No/100 ($50.00) Dollars from the first day of the aforementioned month to December 31. 1970, at which time Quail Valley Fund, Inc. may adjust said maintenance charge for the next succeeding year as the needs of the property may, in the judgment, require. This maintenance charge shall be secured by a vendor’s lien on each lot as and when sold by MacNaughton & Co., and after the initial proration in 1970 such maintenance charge shall be paid annually on the 1st day of January of each year in advance, commencing January 1, 1971. All past due maintenance charges shall bear interest from their due date at 8% per annum until paid. Appropriate recitations with respect to such maintenance fund and the reservation of the vendor’s lien shall be included in each contract of sale and/or deed executed and delivered by MacNaughton & Co., with respect to each lot. The maintenance fund shall be applied, insofar as it may be sufficient, toward the payment for maintenance or installation of streets, paths, parks, parkways, esplanades, vacant lots, lighting, fogging, employing policemen and workmen, and any other things necessary or desirable in the opinion of Quail valley Fund, Inc., to maintain or improve the property, or which it considers to be of general benefit to the owners or occupants of the property covered by these restrictions, it being understood that the judgment of Quail Valley Fund, Inc., in the expenditure of said fund shall be final so long as said judgment is exercised in good faith. The maintenance charge shall remain effective until January 1, 1977, and shall automatically be extended thereafter for successive periods of five years; provided, however, that the owners of the majority of the lots may revoke such maintenance charge on either January 1, 1977 or at the end of any successive five (5) year period thereafter by executing and acknowledging an appropriate agreement or agreements in writing for such purpose and filing the same for record in the Office of the County Clerk of Fort Bend County, Texas.
Each record lot owner of each lot in
Quail Valley Fund, Inc., a Texas Corporation, shall be a non-stock, non-profit corporation, with the principal purposes of: the collection, expenditure, and management of the maintenance charge funds; enforcement of these restrictions; and the general and overall supervision of all the affairs and well being of the subdivision, not connected with the operation of any of its utilities, nor the construction of any of its streets, utilities, residences, nor the sale of property within the subdivision.
17. Right of Mortgagees:
Any violation of any of the easements, agreements, restrictions, reservations, or covenants contained herein shall not have the effect of impairing or affecting the rights of any mortgagee, guarantor, or trustee under any mortgage or deed of trust outstanding against the lot, at the time that the easement, agreements, restrictions, reservations or covenants are violated.
In order to encourage the granting of first mortgage liens on property within this subdivision, before Quail Valley Fund, Inc., may proceed to enforce its prior lien, granted and reserved under these restrictions upon any property upon which there is outstanding a valid first mortgage lien, it shall be necessary that a sixty (60) day notice be sent to the nearest office of such first mortgage lien holder by registered mail of such intent, which notice may be a statement of the charges delinquent, together with the notation “Final sixty (60) day notification to proceed to collect maintenance fund lien”. Upon request by any first lien mortgage holder, or proposed holder, Quail Valley Fund, Inc., shall furnish, for the mortgage holder’s file, an executed form relating the provisions of this paragraph to the applicable individual lot.
18. Enforcement:
The covenants, reservations, easements and restrictions set out therein are for the benefit of the undersigned, their heirs, successors and assigns and equally for the benefit of any subsequent owner of a lot or lots in
19. Severability:
The invalidity, abandonment or waiver of any one of these covenants, reservations, easements, and restrictions shall in no way affect or impair the other covenants, reservations, easements and restrictions which shall remain in full force and effect.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF FORT BEND
AMENDMENT TO RESTRICTIONS AND COVENANTS GOVERNING PROPERTY AND LOTS IN QUAIL VALLEY, EL DORADO SECTION, AND ADDITION FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS
These amendments are made to the Restrictions and Covenants Governing Property and Lots in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section an addition in Fort Bend County, Texas (hereafter sometimes referred to as “Restrictions and Covenants”). Pursuant to paragraph B2, paragraph B15 and paragraph B16 of said Restrictions and Covenants.
The undersigned individuals being a majority of the owners of lots located in said El Dorado Section agree to appoint certain representatives, and to change said Restrictions and Covenants in the following manner:
1. Pursuant to paragraph B2, in order to prevent the cessation and termination of the authority and duties of the Architectural Control Committee, originally granted in the Restrictions and Covenants, the record owners of a majority of the lots subject thereto do execute this instrument to be filed for record therefore.
Effective November, 3, 1989, the persons or their successors, then serving as the Architectural Control Committee are hereby designated as representatives who shall hereinafter exercise the same authority and duties granted to the Architectural Control Committee in Paragraph B2 of the instrument modified hereby. The said authority and duties shall thereafter continue without cessation or termination, unless and until such time as the record owners of a majority of the lots subject hereto shall execute and file for record an instrument altering, modifying, or resending in whole or in part, the provisions, providing for said authority and duties.
2. Pursuant to paragraph B15 and paragraph B16m the prohibition against the maintenance fund’s exceeding $120.00 per lot per year is removed. Effective January 1, 1992, Quail Valley Fund, Inc. is hereby given authority to increase said maintenance charge after consideration of current maintenance costs and the corporation’s future needs, therefore.
Effective January 1, 1992, in the event the amount then assessed is not sufficient to provide the services intended in these Restrictions and Covenants, then the annual assessment may be increased by the Board of Trustees of Quail Valley Fund, Inc. to an amount not to exceed $180.00 per year. Each year thereafter, the assessment may be increased by the Board of Trustees in an amount not to exceed 6% above the previous year’s maintenance charge. However, if the 6% increase is not sufficient t provide the intended services, a simple majority of those voting in an annual meeting and the membership of a special meeting of the members may choose to increase the assessment to a specified amount above the 6
Quail Valley Sub., El Dorado Sec.
Replat
RESTRICTIONS AND COVENANTS, GOVERNING PROPERTY AND LOTS IN THE REPLAT AND ADDITION TO PART OF BLOCKS 22, 23, 23 AND RESERVE “F”, QUAIL VALLEY SUBDIVISION, EL DORADO SECTION, A SUBDIVISION IN THE DAVID BRIGHT LEAGUE A-13,
FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS
which is
OWNED BY FARM AND HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, NEVADA, MISSOURI
THE STATE OF TEXAS
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
COUNTY OF FORT BEND
THAT, WHEREAS MacNaughton & Co., a Texas Corporation, Agent and Attorney in Fact for Farm and Home Savings Association, Nevada, Missouri, acting through its duly authorized officer, for the purpose of creating and carrying out a uniform plan for the improvements and sale of lots in the Replat and Addition to part of Blocks 22, 23, 24 and Reserve “F”, Quail Valley Subdivision, El Dorado Section an addition in Fort Bend County, Texas, according to the plat thereof recorded in Volume 10, Page 5 of the Map Records of Fort Bend County, Texas; and MacNaughton & Co., is the owner of all of the lots in the said subdivision known as Replat and Addition to Part of Blocks 22, 23, 24, and Reserve “F”, Quail Valley Subdivision, El Dorado Section, desires to restrict the use and development of said property located in Quail Valley Subdivision in order to insure that it will be a high-class restricted residential district;
NOW, THEREFORE, MacNaughton & Co., acting through its duly authorized officers, does hereby impose the following restrictions upon the said property and lots included within the Replat and Addition to Part of Blocks 22, 23, 24 and Reserve “F”, Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, which restrictions upon the said property shall constitute covenants running with the land and with each and every property owner purchasing or owing lots the Replat and Addition to Part of Blocks 22, 23, 24 and Reserve “F”, Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, for their benefit and for the benefit of MacNaughton & Co., and any beneficiary hereunder shall have the right to enforce such restrictions using whatever legal method deemed advisable.
A.
General Land Use
All lots in Part of Blocks 22, 23, 24, both inclusive, of said Replat and Addition to Part of Blocks 22, 23, 24 and Reserve “F”, shall be, and are hereby designated to be used for residential purposes only except as hereafter modified under “Section B, Covenants Applying to Residential Lots:, except as hereinafter modified for sales and construction offices.
No piers or construction of any kind will be permitted to intrude into the water of the lakes shown on the recorded plat, and no power boats of any kind, electric or otherwise, shall be permitted or used on said lakes.
B.
Covenants Applying to Residential Lots
No lot shall be used for any purpose except for single family residential purposes.
The term “residential purposes”, as used herein, excludes hospitals, clinics, apartment houses, boarding houses, hotels and commercial and professional uses, whether from homes, residences or otherwise, and all such uses of the lots are expressly prohibited. No building shall be erected, altered, placed or permitted to remain on any lot, other than one single family dwelling not to exceed two stories in height and a private garage for not more than four cars and permitted accessory structures. Construction and sales offices may be constructed on specific lots as designated by the Architectural Control Committee. These shall be removed by December 31, 1980.
No building or other improvements shall be erected, placed or altered on any lot until the construction plans and specifications and a plan showing the location of the structure or improvements have been approved by the Architectural Control Committee as to use, quality of workmanship and materials, harmony of external design with existing structures, and as to location with respect to topography and finish grade elevations. The Architectural Control Committee is composed of three members whose names are Jack B. Miller, Thomas H. Overstreet and J. H. MacNaughton. A majority of the Committee may designate a representative to act for it. In the event of death or resignation of any member of the Committee, the remaining members shall have full authority to designate a successor. Neither the members of the Committee nor its representatives shall be entitled to any compensation for services performed pursuant to this covenant. The herein granted powers and duties of the Architectural Control Committee shall cease and terminate Twenty (20) years after the date of this instrument, and the approval required by this paragraph shall not be required unless, prior to said date and effective thereon, the then record owners of a majority of the lots subject hereto shall execute and file for record an instrument appointing a representative or representatives, who shall thereafter exercise the same powers and duties granted herein to the Architectural Control Committee. The Committee’s approval or disapproval as required herein, shall be in writing. If the Committee, or its designated representatives, fails to give written approval or disapproval within thirty (30) days after plans and specifications have been submitted to it, or in any event, if no suit to enjoin the construction has been commenced prior to the completion of the improvements, approval will not be required and the related covenants shall be deemed to have been fully satisfied. The Architectural Control Committee, at its sole discretion, is hereby permitted to approve deviations in building area and location in instances where, it their judgments, such deviation will result in a more commonly beneficial use. Such approval must be granted in writing and when given will become a part of these restrictions.
The livable area of each main single family residential structure, exclusive of open or screened porches, stoops, open terraces, garages, or detached servant quarters shall not be less than 1,800 square feet on all other lots that do not adjoin or abut lakes and golf course reserves and not less than 2,000 square feet on all lots that do adjoin or abut lakes and golf course reserves.
No building shall be located on any lot nearer to the front lot line or nearer to the side street lot line than the minimum building setback lines shown on the recorded plat. In any event, no building shall be located on any residential building plot nearer than 25 feet to the front lot line, nor nearer than 10 feet to any side street line, unless otherwise noted on the recorded plat, nor nearer than 5 feet to the rear lot line, nor nearer than 3 feet to any side lot line. On all the lots where the lots adjoin or abut lakes and golf course reserves no garages, or any other building, shall be constructed, placed or erected closer than twenty-five feet (25) of the rear property line, nor within five feet of any side or interior lot line. On these lots no garage, attached or detached shall have their opening facing the rear of the property. On all lots, except those listed above, detached garages located on the rear portion of the lot may be built within three feet of any side lot line, or interior lot line, except in those instances where the location of the garage in this manner would violate a dedicated easement.
No clothesline shall be constructed, placed or erected on the lots adjoining the golf course, which clotheslines would be visible from the golf course.
Residential buildings on corner lots shall face the street upon which the lot fronts as shown by the recorded map of the subdivision. The front of the lot is the property line having the smallest dimension on a street. On certain irregular shaped corner lots, the facing of the residences is hereby declared to be under the supervision and control of the Architectural Control Committee hereinbefore named.
No fence or wall shall be erected, placed, altered or maintained on any building site nearer to the front property line than the minimum building setback line shown on the recorded plat of the subdivision. Also no fence or wall shall be erected, placed, altered, or maintained at any other location without written approval of the Architectural Control Committee.
Any garage located on any building site so that the front wall of said garage is within forty (40) feet of the front wall of the main residence shall be constructed so that the overhang of the garage roof shall be at least five (5) feet over the opening of said garage. Any garage located so that the front wall of the garage is more than forty (40) feet to the rear of the front wall of the main residence may have a normal overhang over the garage opening.
Lots may be re-subdivided into building sites comprised of a part of one or more lots as plotted, PROVIDED that no dwelling shall be erected or placed upon any building site containing less than seventy five hundred (7500) square feet in area or having a width of less than seventy (70) feet at the front building setback line shown on the recorded plat of said subdivision.
No noxious or offensive activity shall be permitted upon any lot, nor shall anything be done thereon which may be or become an annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood.
No structure of a temporary character, trailer, basement, tent, shack, garage (except for living quarters contained therein for bona fide servants), barn or other outbuildings shall be used on any lot at any time as a residence either temporarily or permanently.
No signs of any kind shall be displayed to the public view on any lot except one sign of not more than 5 square feet advertising the property for sale or rent, or signs used by a builder to advertise the property during the construction and sales period.
No oil drilling, oil development operations, oil refining, quarrying or mining operations of any kind shall be permitted upon on in any lot, nor shall any wells, tanks, tunnels, mineral excavations or shafts be permitted upon or in any lot. No derrick or other structures designed for use in boring for oil or natural gas shall be erected, maintained or permitted upon any lot.
No animals, livestock, or poultry of any kind shall be raised, bred or kept on any lot except that not more than two (2) dogs, cats or other household pets may be kept provided that they are not kept, bred, or maintained for any commercial purposes.
No lot shall be used or maintained as a dumping ground for rubbish. Trash, garbage and other waste shall be kept in sanitary containers. All incinerators or other equipment for the storage or disposal of such material shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
No building shall be placed or shall any material or refuse be placed or stored on any lot within 20 feet of the property line of any park or edge or any open water course, except that clean fill may be placed nearer provided that the natural water course is not altered or blocked by such fill.
No water well, cesspool or other individual sewage system shall be constructed or used on any lot, but each lot owner must use the water and sewer services provided until such time as those services are furnished by State, County, Municipal or other governmental authorities.
Grass, vegetations and weeds on each lot shall be cut as often as may be necessary in order to maintain the same in a neat and attractive appearance. Likewise, all drainage ditches shall be maintained in the same manner and shall be unobstructed at all times. Any bridge or culvert constructed over property line ditches shall be of concrete pipe and a minimum of 18 inches in diameter, unless the depth of the ditch shall require a larger size for proper drainage.
These covenants of restrictions are to run with the land and shall be binding on all owners of lots in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, and all persons claiming under them until January 1, 1992, after which time said covenants and restrictions shall be automatically extended for successive periods of 10 years unless an instrument signed by a majority of the then owners of the lots is filed for record in Fort Bend County, Texas, altering, rescinding or modifying said covenants and restrictions in whole or in part.
Each lot shall be subject to a maximum monthly maintenance charge of not more than Ten Dollars ($10.00) per lot for the purpose of creating a fund to be known as Quail Valley Fund, Inc., and which maintenance fund charge shall be paid by the owner of each lot in conjunction with like charges to be paid by all other lot owners. Such maintenance charge may be adjusted by Quail Valley Fund, Inc. from year to year as the needs of the property may, in its judgment, require, but in no event shall such maintenance fund exceed $120.00 per lot per year. The maintenance charge is hereby fixed at a maximum amount of Fifty and No/100 Dollars per year beginning with the first day of the calendar month following the date of certification by Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam, Consulting Engineers, of completion of subdivision improvements consisting of concrete streets, curbs, gutters, storm sewers, sanitary sewer lines and water mains in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, with the amount to be a proration of said Fifty and No/100 ($50.00) Dollars from the first day of the aforementioned month to December 31. 1970, at which time Quail Valley Fund, Inc. may adjust said maintenance charge for the next succeeding year as the needs of the property may, in the judgment, require. This maintenance charge shall be secured by a vendor’s lien on each lot as and when sold by MacNaughton & Co., and after the initial proration in 1970 such maintenance charge shall be paid annually on the 1st day of January of each year in advance, commencing January 1, 1971. All past due maintenance charges shall bear interest from their due date at 8% per annum until paid. Appropriate recitations with respect to such maintenance fund and the reservation of the vendor’s lien shall be included in each contract of sale and/or deed executed and delivered by MacNaughton & Co., with respect to each lot. The maintenance fund shall be applied, insofar as it may be sufficient, toward the payment for maintenance or installation of streets, paths, parks, parkways, esplanades, vacant lots, lighting, fogging, employing policemen and workmen, and any other things necessary or desirable in the opinion of Quail valley Fund, Inc., to maintain or improve the property, or which it considers to be of general benefit to the owners or occupants of the property covered by these restrictions, it being understood that the judgment of Quail Valley Fund, Inc., in the expenditure of said fund shall be final so long as said judgment is exercised in good faith. The maintenance charge shall remain effective until January 1, 1977, and shall automatically be extended thereafter for successive periods of five years; provided, however, that the owners of the majority of the lots may revoke such maintenance charge on either January 1, 1977 or at the end of any successive five (5) year period thereafter by executing and acknowledging an appropriate agreement or agreements in writing for such purpose and filing the same for record in the Office of the County Clerk of Fort Bend County, Texas.
Each record lot owner of each lot in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, shall have one (1) vote or membership in Quail Valley Fund, Inc., which vote or membership shall automatically pass with the title to the lot. Owner of fractional portions of any lot shall have that same fractional portion of a vote or membership. The vote of any lot, owned in common by two (2) or more persons, may be cast by any one (1) of the common owners. The vote of any lot owned by a corporation may be cast by any one (1) representative so designated by the officers of that corporation. Any voting may be by mail or in any open meeting as designated by the Constitution and By-Laws of the Quail Valley Fund, Inc., which will outline in full all the voting procedures, initiative and referendum procedures, its officers and their duties, and committees and their duties.
Quail Valley Fund, Inc., a Texas Corporation, shall be a non-stock, non-profit corporation, with the principal purposes of: the collection, expenditure, and management of the maintenance charge funds; enforcement of these restrictions; and the general and overall supervision of all the affairs and well being of the subdivision, not connected with the operation of any of its utilities, nor the construction of any of its streets, utilities, residences, nor the sale of property within the subdivision.
Any violation of any of the easements, agreements, restrictions, reservations, or covenants contained herein shall not have the effect of impairing or affecting the rights of any mortgagee, guarantor, or trustee under any mortgage or deed of trust outstanding against the lot, at the time that the easement, agreements, restrictions, reservations or covenants are violated.
In order to encourage the granting of first mortgage liens on property within this subdivision, before Quail Valley Fund, Inc., may proceed to enforce its prior lien, granted and reserved under these restrictions upon any property upon which there is outstanding a valid first mortgage lien, it shall be necessary that a sixty (60) day notice be sent to the nearest office of such first mortgage lien holder by registered mail of such intent, which notice may be a statement of the charges delinquent, together with the notation “Final sixty (60) day notification to proceed to collect maintenance fund lien”. Upon request by any first lien mortgage holder, or proposed holder, Quail Valley Fund, Inc., shall furnish, for the mortgage holder’s file, an executed form relating the provisions of this paragraph to the applicable individual lot.
The covenants, reservations, easements and restrictions set out therein are for the benefit of the undersigned, their heirs, successors and assigns and equally for the benefit of any subsequent owner of a lot or lots in Quail Valley, El Dorado Section, and his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns. Accordingly, all of the covenants, reservations, easements and restrictions contained herein shall be construed to be covenants running with the land, enforceable at law or in equity, by any one or more of said parties.
The invalidity, abandonment or waiver of any one of these covenants, reservations, easements, and restrictions shall in no way affect or impair the other covenants, reservations, easements and restrictions which shall remain in full force and effect.