developer policy manual - Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority

APPENDIX 2
RIGHT OF WAY
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA )
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COUNTY OF HORRY )
KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I (we), owner(s) of the land
hereinafter described, for and in consideration of payment of the sum of Five and no/100
($5.00) Dollars to me in hand paid (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) by
Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority, I do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey
unto the said Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority, it successors and assigns, a rightof-way
in, over and across the following described property, to wit:
Documentary stamps are not required to be paid and/or affixed hereon by reason of
Section 12-21-380, 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended.
The right-of-way herein granted includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the right and
privilege of the grantee, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, operate and
repair any and all useful, proper and necessary facilities and appurtenances for the
purpose of conveying, pumping, and supplying residential, commercial, and/or industrial
water and/or for the purpose of conveying, pumping, and transporting sanitary sewage
and industrial waste waters and to make such relocations, changes, renewals,
substitutions, replacements and additions of or to the same from time to time as the said
grantee may deem desirable; the right at all times to cut and keep clear of said right-ofway
any and all vegetation, trees, obstructions that might, in the opinion of the grantee,
endanger or injure the said utility facilities or their appurtenances, or interfere with their
proper operation or maintenance; the right of reasonable ingress and egress in, to, over
and across the land(s) of the grantor(s) referred to above for the purpose of exercising the
rights and privileges herein granted; provided, nevertheless, that the failure of the grantee
to exercise any of the rights or privileges herein granted shall not be construed as a
waiver or abandonment of any of the rights and privileges herein granted.
The parties agree that the grantor(s) may landscape, grow crops, maintain private
driveways or private parking areas, and utilize the lands above described for any other
lawful purposes; provided, however, that crops shall not be planted over any utility lines
where the top of said lines are less than eighteen (18) inches under the surface of the
ground and that the use of said land by the grantor(s) shall not, in the opinion of the
grantee, interfere or conflict in any manner with the use of said land by the grantee for the
purposes hereinabove mentioned, and that no use of said land shall be made by the
grantor(s) as would, in the opinion of the grantee, injure, endanger or render inaccessible
the water and/or sewer utilities or their appurtenances. No building or structure shall be
erected by the grantor(s) on the right-of-way herein granted; nor so close thereto as to
impose any load or stress thereon. The grantor(s) covenant and agree that in the event
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