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Park River Oak Estates
Homeowners Association

CC&Rs

ARTICLE XI

Condemnation

[11.1] Section 1. Sale by Unanimous Consent or Taking. If an action for condemnation of all or a portion of the Properties is proposed or threatened by any governmental agency having the right of eminent domain, then, on unanimous written consent of all of the Owners and all institutional Mortgagees, the Properties, or a portion thereof may be sold and conveyed to the condemning authority by the Board or its designees acting as the attorney-in-fact of all Owners under an irrevocable power of attorney, which each Owner by accepting a deed to a Lot in the Properties hereby grants and which shall be coupled with the interest of all other Owners, for a price deemed fair and equitable by the Board. If the requisite number of Owners or institutional Mortgagees do not consent to a sale of all or a portion of the Properties, and the condemning authority institutes condemnation proceedings, the court shall fix and determine the condemnation award.

[11.2] Section 2. Distribution and Sale Proceeds of Condemnation Award.

(a)             Total Sale or Taking. A total sale or taking of the Properties bans a sale or taking that (i) renders more than 50 percent of the Lots uninhabitable (such determination to be made by the Board in the case of a sale and by the court in the case of a taking) or (ii) renders the Properties as a whole uneconomical as determined by the vote or written consent of 66-2/3 percent of those Owners and their respective institutional Mortgagees whose Lots will remain habitable after the taking. However, any determination that a sale or taking is total must be made before the proceeds from any sale or award are distributed. The proceeds of any such total sale or taking of the Properties, after payment of all expenses relating to the sale or taking, shall be paid to all Owners and to their respective Mortgagees in the proportion that the fair market value of each Lot bears to the fair market value of all Lots on the Properties. The fair market value of Lots shall be determined in the condemnation action, if such be instituted, or by an appraiser.

(b)             Partial Sale or Taking. In the event of a partial sale or taking of the Properties, meaning a sale or taking that is not a total taking, as determined in section 2(a), above, the proceeds from the sale or taking shall be paid or applied in the following order of priority and any judgments of condemnation shall include the following provisions as part of its terms:

(i)                        To the payment of expenses of the Association in effecting the sale or to any prevailing party in any condemnation action to whom such expenses are awarded by the Court to be paid from the amount awarded; then

(ii)                        To Owners and to their respective Mortgagees, as their interests may appear, of Lots on the Properties whose Lots have been sold or taken, an amount up to the fair market value of such Lots as determined by the court in the condemnation proceeding or by an appraiser, less such Owners’ share of expenses paid pursuant to section 2(b)(i) (which share shall be in proportion to the ratio that the fair market value of each Owner’s Lot bears to the fair market value of all Lots). After such payment, the recipient shall no longer be deemed an Owner and the Board or individuals authorized by the Board, acting as attorney-in-fact of all Owners shall amend the Subdivision Map and this Declaration to eliminate from the Properties the Lots so sold or taken; then

(iii) To any remaining Owner(s) and to his or her Mortgagees, as their interests may appear, whose Lot has been diminished in value as a result of the sale or taking disproportionate to any diminution in value of all Lots, as determined by the Court in the condemnation proceeding or by an appraiser, an amount up to the total diminution in value; then

(iv) To all remaining Owners and to their respective Mortgagees, as their interests may appear, the balance of the sale proceeds or award in proportion to the ratio that the fair market value of each remaining Owner’s Lot bears to the fair market value of all remaining Owners’ Lots as of a date immediately prior to commencement of condemnation proceedings, as determined by the Court in the condemnation proceeding or by an appraiser.

[11.3] Section 3. Appraiser.

Wherever in this article XI reference is made to a determination of the value or fair market value of one or more Lots by an appraiser, this shall mean an appraisal by an independent appraiser selected by the Board, who shall be a member of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers (SREA) or other nationally recognized appraiser organization and who shall apply the SREA or other national appraisal organization’s standards in determining the value or fair market value of each Lot. The costs of such appraisals shall be paid from the condemnation proceeds as an expense of the Association.