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. In a statutory form power of attorney, the language granting
power with respect to real property transactions empowers the agent
to do all of the following:
(a) Accept as a gift or as security for a loan, reject, demand,
buy, lease, receive, or otherwise acquire, an interest in real
property or a right incident to real property.
(b) Sell, exchange, convey with or without covenants, quitclaim,
release, surrender, mortgage, encumber, partition, consent to
partitioning, subdivide, apply for zoning, rezoning, or other
governmental permits, plat or consent to platting, develop, grant
options concerning, lease, sublease, or otherwise dispose of, an
interest in real property or a right incident to real property.
(c) Release, assign, satisfy, and enforce by litigation or
otherwise, a mortgage, deed of trust, encumbrance, lien, or other
claim to real property which exists or is asserted.
(d) Do any act of management or of conservation with respect to an
interest in real property, or a right incident to real property,
owned, or claimed to be owned, by the principal, including all of the
following:
(1) Insuring against a casualty, liability, or loss.
(2) Obtaining or regaining possession, or protecting the interest
or right, by litigation or otherwise.
(3) Paying, compromising, or contesting taxes or assessments, or
applying for and receiving refunds in connection with them.
(4) Purchasing supplies, hiring assistance or labor, and making
repairs or alterations in the real property.
(e) Use, develop, alter, replace, remove, erect, or install
structures or other improvements upon real property in or incident to
which the principal has, or claims to have, an interest or right.
(f) Participate in a reorganization with respect to real property
or a legal entity that owns an interest in or right incident to real
property and receive and hold shares of stock or obligations received
in a plan of reorganization, and act with respect to them, including
all of the following:
(1) Selling or otherwise disposing of them.
(2) Exercising or selling an option, conversion, or similar right
with respect to them.
(3) Voting them in person or by proxy.
(g) Change the form of title of an interest in or right incident
to real property.
(h) Dedicate to public use, with or without consideration,
easements or other real property in which the principal has, or
claims to have, an interest or right.