DECLARATION
OF PROTECTIVE COVENANTS
ST. MARY'S SUBDIVISION, UNIT 4
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO
Recorded May 23,1969 at 4:15 PM Reception No. 43535 Margaret
V.Chiles, Recorder
BULLERT INVESTMENT COMPANY, a Colorado corporation, being
the owner in fee simple of the real property hereinafter described,
does hereby make and declare the following limitations, restrictions
and uses upon said property as restrictive and protective
covenants, through reference hereto in all deeds and contracts
for sale issued to or for any part of said property, as benefits
and obligations running with the property, and as binding
upon the said owner and upon all parties claiming under said
owner and upon all future owners of any part of said property,
so long as these restrictive covenants shall remain in force
and effect as now written or as hereafter altered.
1. Property Affected.
These covenants are hereby made applicable to all property
located within St. Mary's Subdivision, Unit 4, according to
the recorded plat thereof, Clear Creek County, Colorado, and
to such other adjacent or contiguous property as may be declared
subject to the provisions hereof by an instrument executed
by the undersigned, its successors or assigns, and recorded
in the records of Clear Creek County, Colorado, all of which
property is referred to hereinafter as "the Subdivision."
2. Membership: St. Mary's Property
Owners' Association. Ownership of any lot within the
Subdivision shall entitle the owner to membership in St. Mary's
Property Owners' Association, a non-profit Colorado corporation,
hereinafter called "the Association", with full
right and responsibility of membership as set forth in the
Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws thereof The Association
shall enforce and administer these Restrictive and Protective
Covenants, do all things necessary for the general benefit
and welfare of the owners of said lots, and perform all other
functions set forth in its Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws.
Purchase, or the acquisition of legal title in any other manner,
of any lot in the Subdivision shall constitute the purchaser's
consent to and acceptance of the duties and responsibilities
of membership in the Association.
3. Architectural Control Committee.
An architectural control committee for the Subdivision (hereinafter
called "the Committee") is hereby established. The
Committee shall be composed of the board of Directors of the
Association, except that the Board of Directors may appoint
any three or more members of the Association to perform all
functions of the Committee, subject to the direction and control
of the Board of Directors. The committee Shall act for the
benefit of the owners of the Subdivision lots for the purpose
of keeping them desirable, uniform and suitable in appearance,
design and use as herein specified. Any question to be determined
by the Committee hereunder may be decided by the vote of a
majority of the members of the Committee, and all Committee
action must be in writing and signed by a majority of the
then members of the Committee.
In the event there is no committee in existence to act upon
an owner's request for approval, or in the event the existing
Committee fails to act upon an owner's request for approval
within thirty (30) days after submission of all required data
to any member of the Committee, then such approval of the
Committee will not be required; provided, however, that any
action performed or improvement constructed shall nevertheless
be governed by all of the restrictions herein set forth and
shall be in harmony with existing activities and improvements
within the Subdivision.
4. Single-Family Mobile Residence.
No structure shall be located, placed, erected, altered or
permitted to remain on any one numbered lot within the Subdivision
other than a single- residential mobile home and such other
accessory structures and improvements as are described hereinafter,
and no lot in the subdivision shall be used for any other
purpose. The term "mobile home", as used herein,
shall mean any single-family dwelling designed for transportation
on streets and highways on its own wheels or by another vehicle
which arrives at a site where it is to be occupied as a dwelling
complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental
unpacking and assembly operations, location on supports or
semi-permanent foundations, and connections to utilities.
5. Approval of Mobile Homes and
Additions. No mobile home may be placed on any lot
until approved in writing by the Committee as to size, condition
and appearance. No mobile home located permanently on any
lot shall be less than 10 feet in width and 36 feet in length
and each such mobile home shall be, and shall be maintained,
in ,generally good condition and repair. All such mobile homes
intended to be located permanently on any lot in the Subdivision
shall be skirted either with standard factory accessory skirts
or with such other skirts as are of good and attractive quality
and workmanship and have been approved by the Committee. Campers
and other similar types of mobile homes having dimensions
less than those described above may be located and utilized
on lots in the Subdivision provided that such location and
use is seasonal (no more than six months in any one calendar
year) and further provided that no additions or improvements
are made thereto and no action is taken to permanently attach
the same to the around by means of posts, piers or foundations.
The Committee, in its sole judgment and discretion, shall
have the power to determine whether the use of any mobile
home in the Subdivision is of a permanent or seasonal nature
and to require that such use be terminated or modified to
conform to these provisions.
6. Approval of Additions and
Accessory Buildings. No mobile home located within
the Subdivision may be remodeled by additions, "lean-to's",
or the like, for the purpose of converting the same into permanently
located residences, nor may any accessory buildings be constructed,
unless and until such remodeling and accessory building construction
shall be permitted by the Zoning Rules and Descriptive Regulations,
or other proper regulations, of the County of Clear Creek,
Colorado. Thereafter, no building, addition, accessory, basement
and related structures, eaves, fences and hedges, ornamental
projections, pavilions, porches and like structures, garages
or carports, projected stories, steps, sun parlors, cabanas
or like rooms, walls, abutments, or other structures or improvements
shall be constructed, erected or maintained on any lot, nor
shall any addition to or change or alteration thereof be made
until the plans and specifications there for, showing the
nature, kind, shape, heighth, materials, floor plans, location
and approximate costs of such structure and improvements have
been submitted to and approved by the Committee as to quality
of workmanship and materials, harmony of external design with
existing structures, and location with respect to topography
and finish grade elevation. In no event shall the total ground-floor
area of all improvements, including., the mobile home, located
on any lot in the Subdivision exceed 50% of the total lot
area, nor shall any such improvement exceed such heighth limitation
as may be set by the Committee. In addition to the approval
of the Committee, the owner of any such proposed structure
or improvement must obtain any pen-nits required by the Building
Code of the County of Clear Creek, Colorado, and must otherwise
comply with all laws, rules and regulations of said County
of Clear Creek or any other governmental authority having
jurisdiction. The exterior of any such planned improvement
must be completed within six months after the commencement
of construction.
7. Boundary Restrictions.
No more than one single-family mobile home, together with
such additional improvements as shall be approved and permitted
in accordance with the foregoing paragraph hereof, shall be
located or permitted to remain upon any one lot in the Subdivision.
No mobile home or permanent or temporary related structure
or improvement shall be permitted to be maintained or constructed
closer than 10 feet from the front of any lot, nor closer
than 5 feet from the side or rear of any lot, nor closer than
30 feet from the exterior boundary of the Subdivision (as
indicated by the set-back line shown on the recorded plat
of the Subdivision). The specific location of each mobile
home and its related structures upon the lots in the Subdivision
shall be subject to the control and approval of the Committee
in order to achieve maximum privacy and spacing for the owners.
8. Sanitary Facilities.
Each mobile home located within the Subdivision must be equipped
with complete sanitary facilities. No mobile home or other
structure shall be located or occupied within the Subdivision
until there are available such central water and sanitation
facilities as will comply with the standards imposed by the
County of Clear Creek or other governmental authority having
jurisdiction. When and if such facilities shall be provided
by a quasi-municipal water and sanitation district, then the
facilities of such district shall be utilized exclusively
to service all lots and mobile homes within the Subdivision;
and, in the event the owner of any such lot has not located
a mobile home thereon and caused the same to be connected
to the facilities of such district within one year after the
sale of such lot by the undersigned, then such district may
proceed, with or without connecting said property to its facilities,
to impose, charge, assess, and collect from the owner or occupant
of such lot such rates, fees, tolls and charges as may be
set by the Board of Directors of said district for the availability
of such water and sanitation facilities and services. No individual
septic tanks, cesspools, leach beds, or other sewage disposal
facility shall be installed on any lot.
9. Landscaping and Trash.
All lots, and the landscaping and improvements thereon, shall
be maintained and kept in a clean and orderly manner at all
times, and no trash, garbage or other waste may be kept or
accumulated on any lot except in such sanitary containers
as shall be approved by the Committee as to location, type,
size and installation. The surface of any lot or any part
thereof shall not be re-graded or cleared without prior approval
of the Committee. At any time after the installation of water
and sanitation facilities is completed, the Committee may
require any lot owner to plant and maintain along any or all
of such owner's lot lines such trees, shrubs, or other screening
or decorative vegetation as the Committee may deem proper
and desirable.
10. Lot Maintenance. In
the event any lot within the Subdivision, including any landscaping
or improvements thereon, is not maintained and kept in a manner
satisfactory to the Committee and in accordance with the requirements
of these restrictive and protective covenants, the Association,
either itself or through any other person, shall have the
right to furnish the labor and/or materials necessary to bring
said lot, landscaping and/or improvements up to a standard
which meets the approval of the Committee and which complies
with the requirements of these covenants and thereafter maintain
them according to such standard. All such costs expended by
the Association shall be assessed to the owner of the lot
upon which such repair, maintenance or restoration shall be
performed, and the amount thereof shall constitute a lien
upon such lot and shall be payable in the manner provided
in paragraph 15 hereof.
This paragraph shall constitute a request by each lot owner
under the conditions stated herein for the Association to
furnish any labor and/or materials which may be furnished
hereunder. Any claim against the Committee or the Association
shall not constitute a defense or offset in any action for
non-payment of any amounts which may be assessed hereunder.
11. Signs and Storage.
No billboard or other advertising device shall be erected
or permitted upon any of said lots, nor shall anything be
done or permitted upon any lot which will deface or mar the
natural scenery thereon. No motor vehicle or other personal
property shall be stored, built, worked upon, repaired or
reconstructed upon any lot except with the approval of the
Committee, and the same shall be permitted only when screened
by an adequate planting, fencing or screening structure so
as to conceal the same from adjacent lots and streets.
12. Household Pets. No
horse, cow, hog, goat, chicken, livestock or other similar
animal shall be kept or maintained on any of said lots. No
household pet shall be kept upon any lot unless it is maintained
in fenced yards or restrained by a leash at all times, and
the Committee may require the removal of any household pets
which, in the opinion of the Committee, constitutes a nuisance.
13. Nuisance. No noxious
or offensive trade or activity shall be conducted upon any
of said lots nor shall anything be done thereon which may
be or become an annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood.
14. Re-subdivision. None
of said lots shall be re-subdivided into smaller lots nor
conveyed or encumbered in less than the full original dimensions
of such lots as shown by the recorded plat; provided, however,
that this restriction shall not prevent the conveyance of
a portion of an adjoining or contiguous lot in such manner
as to create parcels of land in a common ownership having
a greater street frontage than the street frontage shown on
the recorded plat, in which event the portion so conveyed
shall become a part of the adjoining or contiguous lot in
such common ownership, and thereafter such portions of adjoining
or contiguous lots in such common ownership shall be considered
as one lot; provided further, however, that no conveyances
may be made pursuant to this paragraph if after such conveyance
there remains a parcel of land not thereby adjoined to an
existing lot, the size of which is less than the full original
dimensions of such lot.
15. Assessments. The record
owner of each lot in the Subdivision shall pay to the Association,
within ten days from receipt of notice and invoice there for,
a sum equal to the total of the following:
A. The pro-rata share
of the cost to the Association of all:
(i) Costs of maintenance
and repairs to such commonly owned areas, if any, as may be
conveyed to or otherwise acquired by the Association;
(ii) Costs of providing
common facilities and services deemed necessary to be provided
by the Board of Directors of the Association, including, but
not limited to, waste and trash removal and common area protective
and decorative lighting;
(iii) Costs of establishment
and maintenance of a reserve, if any, for repair, maintenance,
improvement of common areas, or for the operation of the Association;
(iv) Costs incurred in
enforcing and administering in any manner whatsoever these
restrictive and protective covenants, including attorney's
fees and court costs;
(v) Costs of taxes upon
commonly owned areas, commonly owned personal property, or
other property owned by the Association, if any; and
(vi) Any other cost incurred
by the Board of Directors of the Association for the general
benefit and welfare of the owners of said lots, if any.
B. The cost to the Association
of all expenditures, including reasonable attorney's fees,
to which the Association may be put by reason of said record
owner's failure to keep and fully comply with these restrictive
and protective covenants or failure to pay any assessment
or other sum due from said record owner by virtue of his membership
in the Association.
Notices and invoices for payment of any and all assessments
upon members of the Association may be submitted monthly or
at any other regular interval as may be fixed by the Board
of Directors. In the event any such invoice is not paid within
thirty days from the date the notice and invoice are mailed
to the record owner, the amount of such invoice shall be and
become a lien upon the lot or lots owned by such owner. Such
hen may be enforced by foreclosure proceedings against such
lot or lots in like manner as the foreclosure of a mortgage
on real property, and in any such foreclosure proceedings,
the owner shall be required to pay the costs and expenses
of such proceedings, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
The Association shall have the power to bid at the foreclosure
sale and to acquire, hold, lease, mortgage and convey any
lot or lots so acquired.
16. Failure to Enforce.
The failure by any owner, the Committee, or the Association
to enforce any provision herein contained shall in no event
be deemed a waiver of the right to do so thereafter as to
the same breach or as to one occurring prior or subsequent
thereto, nor shall such failure give rise to any claim or
cause of action against the Association, the Committee, or
any member thereof.
17. Enforcement. In the
event of any violation or threatened violation of any of the
provisions contained herein, the undersigned or its successors
or assigns, any owner of any lot, or the Association may bring
action at law or in equity, either for injunction, action
for damages, or such other remedies as may be available.
18. Subordination of Liens.
Each and every lien or charge upon said lots provided for
herein shall be subject and subordinate to and shall not affect
the rights of the holder or holders of any first mortgage
or first deed of trust of record against any of such lots.
19. Effect and Tenure.
The provisions hereof shall be considered as covenants running
with the land and all instruments affecting the title of any
of said lots shall be subject to the provisions hereof. Said
provisions shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon
the undersigned, its successors and assigns, and every grantee
or lessee of any said lot, their heirs, personal representatives,
successors and assigns, and upon every successor in title
of the undersigned; except that the owners of record of at
least 75% of said numbered lots, if at least 90% thereof have
been sold by the undersigned, may, by an instrument in writing,
duly executed, acknowledged and recorded in the County of
Clear Creek, Colorado, change said provisions in whole or
in part; provided, however, that, for a period of five years
after the date of recording hereof, no provision shall be
changed in any manner so as to make the same less restrictive.
20. Invalid Provision.
Invalidation of any of the provisions hereof by judgment or
order of court shall in no way affect any of the other provisions
hereof, and lack of title or failure of tide in the undersigned
as to any portion of the property described herein shall not
affect the validity of these provisions as to the remainder
of such property.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Bullert Investment Company, a Colorado
corporation, has caused this instrument to be executed by
its President, attested by its Secretary, and its corporate
seal to be affixed hereto, this 22nd day of May, 1969.
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