8.2       Installation and Maintenance.  There is hereby created an easement upon, across, over and under all of the easement area affecting the Property for ingress and egress in connection with installing, replacing, repairing and maintaining all utilities, including, but not limited to, water, sewer, gas, cable television, telephones, electricity and appurtenances thereto.  By virtue of this easement, it shall be expressly permissible for the utility companies and other entities supplying service to install and maintain pipes, wires, conduits, service lines or other utility facilities or appurtenances thereto on, above, across and under the Property, within the public utility easements from time to time existing and from service lines situated within such easements to the point of service on or in any Improvement.  Notwithstanding any provision contained in this section, no sewer, electrical lines, water lines or other utilities or appurtenances thereto may be relocated on the Property until approved by Declarant or the Architectural Control Committee.  The utility easements shown on the Plat, and to trim overhanging trees and shrubs located on portions of the Property abutting such easements.

8.3       Drainage Easements.  Each owner covenants to provide easements for drainage and water flow, as contours of land and the arrangement of Improvements approved by the Architectural Control Committee thereon, require.  Each Owner further covenants not to disturb or displace any trees or other vegetation within the drainage easements as defined in this Declaration and shown on the Plat.  There shall be no construction of Improvements, temporary or permanent in any drainage easement, except as approved in writing by the Architectural Control Committee and the Director of Public Works for the City of Blanco.

8.4       Surface Areas.  Each Owner shall maintain the surface area of all easements located within his Lot and all improvements located therein except for such improvements for which a public authority or utility company is responsible.  The surface of easement areas for underground utility services may be used for planting of shrubbery, trees, lawns or flowers.  However, neither the Declarant nor any supplier of any utility or service using any easement are or shall be liable to any owner or to the Master Association for any damage done by them or either of them or their respective agents, employees, servants or assigns, to any of the aforesaid vegetation as a result of any activity relating to the construction, maintenance, operation or repair of any facility in any such easement area.

8.5       Title to Easement and Appurtenances Not Covered.  Title to any Lot conveyed by Declarant by contract, deed or other conveyance shall not be held or construed in any event to include the title to any roadways, or any drainage, water, gas, sewer, storm sewer, electrical light, electrical power, telegraph or telephone way, or any pipes, lines, poles or conduits on or in any utility facility or appurtenances thereto, constructed by or under Declarant or its agents through, along or upon any Lot or any part thereof to serve said Lot or any other portion of the Property, and the right to maintain, repair, sell, or lease such appurtenances to any municipality or other governmental agency or to any public service corporation or to any other party is hereby expressly reserved by Declarant.

ARTICLE IX

MISCELLANEOUS

9.1       Term.  This Declaration, including all of the covenants, conditions and restrictions hereof, shall run until August 1, 2019, unless amended as herein provided.  After August 1, 2019, this Declaration, including all such covenants, conditions and restrictions shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten (10) years each, unless amended or extinguished by a written instrument executed by the Owners of at least three-fourths (3/4ths) of the Lots within the Property then subject to this Declaration.

9.2       Nonliability of Board and Architectural Control Committee Members.  Neither the Architectural Control Committee, nor any member thereof, nor the Board nor any member thereof, shall be liable to the Master Association or to any Owner or to any other person for any loss, damage or injury arising out of their being in any way connected with the performance of the Architectural Control Committee’s or the Board’s respective duties under this Declaration unless due to the willful misconduct or bad faith of the Architectural Control Committee or its members, as the case may be.  Neither the Architectural Control Committee nor the members thereof shall be liable to any Owner due to the construction of any Improvement within the Property.