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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity of Port Townsend - Puget Sound Energy - Parcel 989200113555572 PGS:2.EASE 1110512010 03:54 PM $63.00 JEFFERSON TITLE CO INC Jefferson County WA Auditor's Office - Donna Eldridge, Auditor ®III KW,L+113JAVA WL WIRI 16 WNN.N 11111 RETURN ADDRESS: Puget Sound Energy, Inc Attn: ROW Department NO REAL EST/,SE. 6522 Kitsap Way EXCISE 1 ^,X -Uli D Bremerton, WA 98312 JEFFERSON COUNTY TREASURER EASEMENT REFERENCE #: GRANTOR: PORT TOWNSEND ECOVILLAGE GRANTEE: PUGET SOUND ENERGY, INC. SHORT LEGAL: NE- NE- 03- 30N -01W ASSESSOR'S PROPERTY TAX PARCEL: 989 - 200 -113 For and in consideration of One Dollar ($1.00) and other valuable consideration in hand paid, PORT TOWNSEND ECOVILLAGE, a Washington Miscellaneous and Mutual Corporation ( "Grantor" herein), hereby conveys and warrapts to PUGET SOUND ENERGY, INC., a Washington Corporation ( "Grantee" herein), for the purposes hereinafter set forth, a nonexclusive perpetual easement over, under, along across and through the following described real property ( "Property" herein) in JEFFERSON County, Washington: PORT TOWNSEND ECOVILLAGE BINDING SITE PLAN WHICH IS RECORDED IN VOLUME 1, PAGE 107 — 111, UNDER AUDITOR'S FILE NO. 554166. Except as may be otherwise set forth herein Grantee's rights shall be exercised upon that portion of the Property ( "Easement Area" herein) described as follows: An Easement Area TEN (10) feet in width having FIVE (5) feet of such width on each side of a centerline described as fellows: THE CENTERLINE OF GRANTEE'S FACILITIES AS NOW CONSTRUCTED, TO BE CONSTRUCTED, EXTENDED OR RELOCATED LYING WITHIN THE COMMON AREA OF THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PROPERTY. 1. Purpose. Grantee shall have the right to use the Easement Area to construct, operate, maintain, repair, replace, improve, remove, and enlarge one or more utility systems for purposes of transmission, distribution and sale of electricity. Such systems may include, but are not limited to: Underground Facilities. Conduits, lines, cables, vaults, switches and transformers for electricity; fiber optic cable and other lines, cables and facilities for communications; semi - buried or ground - mounted facilities and pads, manholes, meters, fixtures, attachments and any and all other facilities or appurtenances necessary or convenient to any or all of the foregoing, Following the initial construction of all or a portion of its systems, Grantee may, from time to time, construct such additional facilities as it may require for such systems. Grantee shall have the right of access to the Easement Area over and across the Property to enable Grantee to exercise its rights hereunder. Grantee shall compensate Grantor for any damage to the Property caused by the exercise of such right of access by Grantee. 2. Easement Area Clearing and Maintenance. Grantee shall have the right to cut, remove and dispose of any and all brush, trees or other vegetation in the Easement Area. Grantee shall also have the right to control, on a continuing basis and by any prudent and reasonable means, the establishment and growth of brush, trees or other vegetation in the Easement Area. 3. Grantor's Use of Easement Area. Grantor reserves the right to use the Easement Area for any purpose not inconsistent with the rights herein granted, provided, however, Grantor shall not construct or maintain any buildings, structures or other objects on the Easement Area and Grantor shall do no blasting within 300 feet of Grantee's facilities without Grantee's prior written consent. 4. Indemnity. Grantee agrees to indemnify Grantor from and against liability incurred by Grantor as a result of Grantee's negligence in the exercise of the rights herein granted to Grantee, but nothing herein shall require Grantee to indemnify Grantor for that portion of any such liability attributable to the negligence of Grantor or the negligence of others. 5. Abandonment. The rights herein granted shall continue. until such time as Grantee ceases to use the Easement Area for a period of five (5) successive years, in which event, this easement shall terminate and all rights UG Electric 10/2003 105062500 RW- 076444 PORT TOWNSEND ECOVILLAGE