2016 Code of Alabama
Title 35 - PROPERTY.
Chapter 19 - ALABAMA UNFORM ENVIRONMENTAL COVENANTS ACT.
Section 35-19-10 - Amendment or termination of environmental covenant.
(a) Unless otherwise specified in the environmental covenant, an environmental covenant may be amended or terminated by consent only if the amendment or termination is signed by each of the following:
(1) The agency, unless waived by the agency, in which event the current owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant must sign.
(2) Each person that originally signed the covenant, unless a person waived in a signed record the right to consent or a court finds that the person no longer exists or cannot be located or identified with the exercise of reasonable diligence.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d)(2), the holder.
(b) If an interest in real property is subject to an environmental covenant, the interest is not affected by an amendment of the covenant unless the current owner of the interest consents to the amendment or has waived in a signed record the right to consent to amendments.
(c) Except for an assignment undertaken pursuant to a governmental reorganization, assignment of an environmental covenant to a new holder is an amendment.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in an environmental covenant:
(1) A holder may not assign its interest without consent of the other parties.
(2) A holder may be removed and replaced by agreement of the other parties specified in subsection (a).
(3) A court of competent jurisdiction may fill a vacancy in the position of holder.
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