HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2013-R0373 - Accept Easement - 11/07/2013RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
THAT the City Council hereby accepts on behalf of the City of Lubbock an
Easement as described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by
reference, located in Section 23, Block E, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, and related
documents. Said Easement is attached hereto and incorporated in this resolution as if
fully set forth herein and shall be included in the minutes of the City Council.
THAT the consideration for the Easement shall be $2,110.00 and that closing
costs shall also be paid in connection with the purchase of the property, said payments
approved herein.
Passed by the City Council on November 7, 2013
G SON, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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r a Garza, -City Secret
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
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R. Keith Smith, P.E., Director of Public Works
Dave Booher, Right -of -Way Agent
APP V D AS FORM:
Chad Weaver, Assistant City Attorney
vw:cedocs/RES.Easernent-Johnson
October 10, 2013
EASEMENT
STATE OF TEXAS §
§ KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT:
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK §
Phillip Johnson, hereinafter referred to as GRANTOR, for a valuable consideration, to it
paid by The City of Lubbock, Texas (the "Grantee") with offices at 1625 13`h Street, Lubbock,
Texas 79401, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, has granted and
does by these presents grant unto Grantee the following described perpetual exclusive easement,
servitude and right-of-way, as described herein (hereinafter called the "Easement") through,
over, under, upon, across and within the lands, described in Exhibit A (hereinafter called the
"Lands" or "Easement Lands") situated in Lubbock County, Texas.
Pipelines and Equipment
Grantor hereby grants to Grantee a perpetual exclusive Easement to install transmission
lines and to survey, construct, reconstruct, install, operate, inspect, maintain, alter, relocate,
replace, repair, and remove (hereinafter called "Permitted Uses") pipelines, conduits, drain
(blow -off) valves, valve boxes, meters, meter boxes, vents, manholes, manhole covers, corrosion
monitoring test stations, pipeline markers, fence gates, impressed current deep well anode
stations with power supplies, flow meters, system communication lines and splice boxes,
pipeline trail road on non cultivated areas, and all other equipment and facilities related thereto,
or any part thereof (hereinafter collectively called the "Pipeline System"), for and/or related to
the transportation of water and/or waste water through, under, upon, over, across and within the
Lands. Such perpetual exclusive Easement shall be as described herein and on Exhibit A
attached hereto and incorporated herein, and hereby made a part hereof by reference to describe
the Easement and the Lands.
For Ten Dollars ($10.00) and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, this Easement is specifically made by Grantor and
accepted by Grantee subject to the following terms, covenants, obligations and conditions:
1. Grantee may use and occupy the Easement for the sole purpose of (a) the
right to perform Permitted Uses related to the Pipeline System; (b) the right (for men,
material, and equipment) of ingress and egress and regress to and from and access on and
along said Easement granted herein, with the right to ingress and egress and regress to
and from and access on and along said Easement, for the Permitted Uses; and (c) the right
to locate the Pipeline System through, over, under, upon, across and within the Easement
for the purpose of water transportation.
2. Grantee covenants and agrees that its use of the Easement and its
operations conducted thereon shall, to the best of Grantee's ability, at all times comply
with all applicable local, state and federal laws, orders, rules, regulations, standards,
licensing, permitting and other legal requirements including, without limitation, all
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environmental laws, orders, rules, regulations, standards, licensing and permitting (the
"Legal Requirements"). Grantee agrees to construct the Pipeline System in a prudent
manner, in compliance with all Legal Requirements, and with due care for Grantor's
property, business and operations. In the event it is discovered that Grantee is in
violation of any portion of the Legal Requirements, Grantee agrees to commence, upon
receipt of written notice of such violation, the process of curing such violation so that
Grantee will be in compliance with this subparagraph.
3. The Easement granted herein shall be for the transportation of water
and/or waste water, regardless of source, and shall continue in full force and effect unless
Grantee should abandon the Pipeline System as identified herein. The rights granted to
Grantee herein may be abandoned solely by a formal resolution of its governing body that
authorizes the abandonment of the Pipeline System. Any such abandonment will not be
effective until it is evidenced by notice in writing, signed by the Grantee's official
representative, and filed of record in the county where the Lands are located.
4. The Easement Term is hereby defined as the period of time beginning with
the granting of the Easement and continuing until such time that the Easement is
abandoned by Grantee.
5. Unless Grantor agrees otherwise in writing, Grantee agrees that during
Permitted Uses related to the Pipeline System, any and all trees, dirt, raw materials,
timber, wood, bushes, shrubs and brush, and other debris materials resulting from site
preparation cleared from the Easement shall, at Grantee's option, be either burned on site,
buried, or removed by Grantee from Grantor's property and disposed of properly. If such
debris is burned on site, the Grantee shall have constant watch over burn piles with
adequate fire fighting equipment on site.
6. Grantee shall keep the Easement in good order, condition and repair
following any work related to Permitted Uses on the Pipeline System.
7. Grantee shall be responsible for obtaining all permits necessary to
construct and operate the Pipeline System on the Easement. Without limiting the
foregoing, and to the extent required, Grantee will secure and maintain any and all
environmental permits required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
covering the Easement.
8. During construction of the Pipeline System, Grantee shall provide
reasonable access to Grantor's property. Within the Easement, Grantee shall have the
right to cut fences and install gates to enable Permitted Uses for the Pipeline System.
9. This grant of Easement shall not preclude the right of Grantor to cultivate,
use, and enjoy the Lands for any purposes which will not constitute an interference with
the Easement, rights and privileges herein granted to Grantee, or endanger any of
Grantee's property at the sole discretion of the Grantee.
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10. Grantee shall exercise due care and diligence in the use of the rights and
privileges herein granted to it. In case of abandonment of said Easement as provided in 3
above, the title and interest herein granted shall end, cease, and terminate, and title to the
Easement, pipeline, equipment and facilities shall revert to the then owner of the Lands.
11. Grantor warrants and represents that the title to the Lands described herein
are vested in the Grantor, free and clear of any liens and/or encumbrances. Grantor shall
provide to Grantee an executed release from any lien holder, tenant, lessee, or other parry
having an interest in the Lands.
12. Grantor shall procure and have recorded without cost to Grantee all
assurances of title and affidavits which the Grantor may be advised by Grantee are
necessary and proper to show in Grantor title sufficient to grant the above easement free
and clear of encumbrances other than those encumbrances expressly defined herein.
Abstracts or certificates of title or title insurance may be procured by the Grantee at its
expense. The expense of recording this Easement shall be borne by Grantor. Grantee
agrees to cooperate and aid Grantor, if necessary, to obtain any curative documents
needed.
13. "Grantee" when used in this instrument, shall include The City of
Lubbock's officers, agents, servants, employees, representatives, contractors,
independent contractors, subcontractors, and/or their equipment or vehicles.
14. Words of any gender used in this agreement shall be held and construed to
include any other gender, and words in the singular number shall be held to include the
plural, and vice versa, unless the context requires otherwise.
15. It is understood and agreed that this Easement is not a conveyance of the
fee estate for any of the Lands covered hereunder, but is only an easement through, over,
under, upon, across and within the Lands.
16. The provisions of this Easement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the successors and assigns of the respective parties hereto.
17. This Easement contains the final and complete expression of the parties
with respect to any matter mentioned herein. No prior agreement or understanding
pertaining to any such matter shall be effective. This Easement may be modified in
writing only, signed by the parties in interest at the time of the modification.
18. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Easement shall
for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such
invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision hereof, and
this Easement shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions
had never been contained herein.
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19. Any notices or demands provided to be given herein by the parties shall be
in writing and mailed by certified or registered mail to the other party at the address set
forth above. Any notice or demand shall be deemed to have been received the earlier of
five (5) days after the date of mailing or the date of actual delivery as shown by the
addressee's certification or registry receipt.
20. Neither party shall be liable to the other party or any of such party's
affiliates in any action or claim, including without any limitation, any action or claim for
loss of profit, loss of product, loss of use, or for indirect, consequential, punitive,
exemplary, special or other similar types of damages, regardless of how caused and
regardless of the underlying theory of recovery, and even if caused by the sole or
concurrent negligence of the responsible party.
A. To the extent that Grantor owns any portion of any mineral estate,
leasehold estate and/or royalty interest of any kind or character under the Lands defined
herein, Grantor surrenders and releases its surface drilling rights and all other rights of
surface use of the Easement and Lands incident to the production of oil, gas,
hydrocarbons, minerals, wind energy, and water production subject to the following
exception and limitation:
i) Grantor reserves and excepts from this release and retains for itself, its
successors and its successors -in -interest, all rights to explore for, to drill and
produce oil, gas and other hydrocarbons underlying or situated beneath the
Easement and Lands by any means whatsoever, including wells directionally
drilled from surface location on nearby lands so long as no surface operations are
performed on the Easement and so long as such operations will not interfere with
or endanger the operations or integrity of the Pipeline System and Permitted Uses.
ii) Grantor shall include the surface use restrictions and covenants provided
herein in any subsequent lease or conveyance of the oil, gas and/or mineral estate,
wind rights or interests and water rights or interests.
21. Grantee shall have the right to approve the location and means of future
third -party pipelines which will cross Grantee's pipeline system and come within the
Easement. Grantee will not withhold reasonable crossing requests, but will act in a
manner to protect the Grantee's Pipeline System and Grantee's Easement.
22. This instrument may be executed in multiple counterparts and the
signature pages and acknowledgment pages combined to form one document for
recording purposes..
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said Easement unto Grantee, its successors and
assigns for so long as the same shall be used for the purposes aforesaid subject to the
terns and conditions hereof.
EXECUTED this -/ day of 2013 ("Effective Date").
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Phillip Johnson
THE STATE OF TEXAS
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BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said County, Texas,
on this day personally appeared Phillip Johnson, known to me to be the person whose name is
subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for
the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
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COUNTY OF LUBBOCK
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® South Lubbock Sanitary Sewer Extension
Parcel No. 19
N PERIMETER SURVEY OF A 0.592 ACRE TRACT LOCATED IN
SCALE: V=100' SECTION 23, BLOCK E
LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS
POINT OF 13EGINNING
Bearings are relative to the Texas State Plane Coordinate
System, North Central Zone, CORS 96, Epoch 2002.0
Distances are surface, U.S. Survey feet.
Combined Scale Factor: 1.00024
Surveyed on the ground.
May 10, 2012
L E . &D --
J dKn E. Allen
Registered Professional
Land Surveyor No. 5895
State of Texas
NOTES:
HEAVY LINES INDICATE PLAT LIMITS.
®- FOUND 1/2" IRON ROD WITH CAP
A legal description of even survey date
herewith accompanies this plat of survey.
Sheet 1 of 2
South Lubbock Sanitary Sewer Extension
Parcel No. 19
PERIMETER SURVEY OF A 0.592 ACRE TRACT LOCATED IN
SECTION 23, BLOCK E
LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS
METES AND BOUNDS DESCRIPTION of a 0.592 acre parcel located in Sections 23, Block E, Lubbock County, Texas,
being a portion of a 10.64 acre tract described in County Clerk File Number 2008029907, Official Public Records, Lubbock
County, Texas, being further described as follows:
BEGINNING at a 1/2" iron rod with cap found in the common line of Sections 7 and 23, Block E, Lubbock County, Texas,
also being in the East line of a 106.66 acre tract as described in County Clerk File Number 2007022714, Official Public
Records, Lubbock County, Texas, also being the West line of a 60 foot Lubbock County right-of-way as monumented and
for the Southwest comer of a 1.50 acre tract as described in Volume 6478, Page 166, Real Property Records, Lubbock
County, Texas, and for the Northwest comer of said 10.64 acre tract for the Northwest comer of this parcel which bears
S. 01'44'32" E. a distance of 255.55 from a pk nail with shiner found at the Northeast comer of Section 7, Block E, Lubbock
County, Texas and the Southeast comer of Section 6, Block E, Lubbock County, Texas, for the Northwest corner of this
parcel;
THENCE S. 88053'33" E. along the South line of said 1.50 acre tract and the North line of said 10.64 acre tract a distance of
60.00 feet to a 1/2" iron rod with cap found in the East line of said 60 foot right-of-way for the Northeast comer of this
parcel;
THENCE S. 0l°4412" W. along said 60 foot right-of-way a distance of 430.12 feet to a 1/2" iron rod with cap found in the
South line of said 10.64 acre tract and the North line of a 60 foot Lubbock County right-of-way easement as monumented for
the Southeast corner of this parcel;
THENCE N. 8853'33" E. along the South line of said 10.64 acre tract a distance of 60.00 feet to a 1/2" iron rod with cap
found in the common line of Sections 7 and 23, Block E, Lubbock County, Texas, and the East line of said 106.66 acre tract
and the West line of said 60 foot Lubbock County right-of-way for the Southwest comer of this parcel;
THENCE N. 01 044'32" E. along said common line of Sections 7 and 23, Block E, Lubbock County, Texas, the East line of
said 106.66 acre tract a distance of 430.12 feet to the Point of Beginning.
Bearings relative to Grid North, NAD 83, Texas Coordinate System, North-Central Zone. Distances are Surface, U. S.
Survey Feet. Combined Scale Factor: 1.00024
A plat of even survey date herewith accompanies this legal description
Surveyed on the ground
May 10, 2012
J E. All
Registered Professional
Land Surveyor No. 5895
State of Texas
Sheet 2 of 2