ARTICLE XII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Section 1. Enforcement: The Association, or any Owner, shall have the right to enforce, by any proceeding at law or in equity, all restrictions, conditions, covenants, reservations, easements, liens and charges now or hereafter imposed by the provisions of this Declaration and shall be entitled, if successful, to legal costs and reasonable attorney fees.
 
Section 2. Severability: Invalidation of any one of these covenants or restrictions by judgment or Court order shall in no wise affect any other provisions which shall remain in full force and effect.
 
Section 3. Amendment: The covenants and restrictions of this Declaration shall run with and bind the land, and shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Association, or the Owner of any Lot or Unit subject to this Declaration, their respective legal representatives, heirs, successors, and assigns, for a term of twenty (20) years from the date the Declaration is recorded, after which time said covenants shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten (10) years. The covenants and restrictions of this Declaration may be amended during the first twenty (20) year period by an instrument signed by not less than ninety percent (90%) of the lot owners, and thereafter by an instrument signed by not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the Lot or Unit owners. Any amendment must be properly recorded.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the Declarant herein, has set its hand and seal this 26 day of June, 1972.
 
Seaport Choice, Inc. DECLARANT
 
 
STATE OF WASHINGTON )
                                    ) ss.
          COUNTY OF KING )
 
On this 26 day of June, 1972, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared JIMMY J. HARKEY, to me known to be the Secretary of Seaport Choice, Inc. the corporation that executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and on oath stated that he was authorized to execute the said instrument and that the seal affixed (if-any) is the corporate seal of said corporation.
 
Witness my hand and official seal hereto affixed the day and year first above written.
 
Notary Public in and for the State of Washington residing at Seattle.