SEWER - MELVIN T. MCKNIGHT AND LOIS MCKNIGHT73021381
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AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 16th day of February,
1973, by and between the CITY OF CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, municipal corporation, hereinafter referred to as IICityll, and
MELVIN T. McKNIGHT AND LOIS McKNIGHT , his wife,
hereinafter referred to as "0wner";
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WHEREAS, the Owner now owns the following described real
property and intends to construct a residence thereon:
Lot 17, Block 10, Virginia Groves Estat~s First
Addition, as recorded in Plat Book 47, pages 41,
42 and 43 of the Public Records of PinellasCounty,
Florida;
and
WHEREAS, the Owner desires to connect to the City sewer m,ain
and is agreeable to signing an agreement with the City for municipal sewer
services; and
WHEREAS, the City is agreeable to furnishing said services upon
certain conditions and considerations;
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby covenant and agree
as follows:
1. The City does hereby agree, subject to the terms of this agreement,
to permit the Owner to connect to its sanitary sewer main at the Owner's
expense. The City does agree that such connection for the treatment of
sewage will at all times be continuous, however, the City shall not be liable
for any damage resulting from any unavoidable cessation of treatment caused
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by act of God, necessary maintenance work, or any cause beyond the control
of the City.
2. In consideration of the covenants contained in Paragraph 1
immediately above on the part of the City, the Owner agrees:
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CLEARWATER, FLA. 33518
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(a) To pay the normal sewer connection charge and monthly sewer
service charges to the City on the same basis as persons living outside the
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municipal boundaries are charged.
(b) The parties hereto do further covenant that within one (l) year
from thE[ date that said Owner connects to the City sewer main, he shall
petition the City for annexation into the limits of said City and as a matter of
fact, this agreement may be considered a written request to annex at the
expiration of said one (1) year period.
(c) If at the expiration of a one (1) year period from the date of con-
nection to the City sewer system the above described real property cannot be
legally annexed into the City, thenthe Owner shall pay an annual charge to the
City based upon the tax revenue that the City would receive from real property
taxes if the prope rty as he reinabove des cribed was in the City, and therefore
subject to a real property tax by the said City in addition to the monthly sewer
service charges. Payments shall be made on January 1st of each year following
the expiration of said one" (1) year period. In the event of annexation as herein-
above provided, the foregoing annual charge shall not be in effect.
(d) The Owner agrees that this agreement shall be binding upon his
heirs, administrators and assigns and that the City may record this document
liit so des ires.
(e) The Owner agrees that the terms and provisions of this agreement
shall be a commitment and obligation which shall not only bind the present
Owner of said described real property, but shall run with the land and shall
bind and be enforceable against all subsequent owners of said described real
property whether or not mentioned in the deeds to said owners.
(f) If the Owner, or his successors or assigns or any subsequent
owner shall default in the performance of the terms and provisions of this
agreement and the City shall institute legal proceedings to enforce the terms
and provisions hereof, the Owner, his successors and assigns, covenant
and agree to pay all costs of such proceedings, including the payment of a
reasonable attorney's fee in connection therewith.
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IN VfITNESS V/HEREOF, the p.:ntic.s hereto have caused tbis ct.greernent
to be executed the day and year first above written.
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Melvin T. McKnight
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COUNTY OF PINE LLAS )
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that on this II, day of ;::f~
A. D. 19.73. before me personally appeared Merrett R. Stierheim, Herbert M.
Brown, R. G. Whitenead and H. Everett Hougen, respectively City Manager,
City Attorney, City Clerk and Mayor-Commissioner of the City of Clearwater,
Florida, a municipal corporation, to me known to be the individuals and officers
described in and who executed the foregoing Agreement and severally acknowledged
the execution thereof to be their free act and deed as such officers thereunto
duly authorized; and that the official seal of said municip3.l corporation is duly
affixed thereto, and the said agreelnent is the act and deed of said corporation.
WITNESS my signature and official seal at Clearwater in the County of
Pinellas and State of Florida, the day and year last above written.
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STATE OF FLORIDA )
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COUNTY OF PINE LLAS )
I HEREB Y CERTIFY, that on this day, before me, an officer duly
authorized in the State aforesaid and in the County aforesaid to take
acknowledgments, personally appeared Melvin T. McKnight
and Lois McKnight, his wife,
to me known to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing
agreement and acknowledged before me that they executed the same.
WITNESS my hand and official seal in the County and State last
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aforesaid this. (~f' day of ',' '~, ~~'D' 1973 , l,'
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MY COMMISSION EXPIRES SEP1. 7. 1976
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