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2021 Code of Alabama
Title 35 - Property.
Chapter 19 - Alabama Unform Environmental Covenants Act.
Section 35-19-2 - Definitions.

Universal Citation:
AL Code § 35-19-2 (2021)
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Section 35-19-2

Definitions.

The following terms shall have the following meanings:

(1) ACTIVITY AND USE LIMITATIONS. Restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with respect to real property.

(2) AGENCY or DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

(3) COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY. A condominium, cooperative, or other real property with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or for maintenance, or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community.

(4) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management or his or her designated representative.

(5) ENVIRONMENTAL COVENANT. A servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations.

(6) ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE PROJECT. A plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property and conducted under any of the following programs or situations:

a. Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real property, including Chapter 30E of Title 22, but not including Chapter 36 of Title 22.

b. Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the closure is conducted with approval of an agency.

c. Under a state voluntary clean-up program authorized in Chapter 30E of Title 22.

(7) HOLDER. The grantee of an environmental covenant as specified in subsection (a) of Section 35-19-3.

(8) PERSON. An individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(9) RECORD. Used as a noun, means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

(10) STATE. The State of Alabama.

(Act 2007-464, p. 972, §2; Act 2012-317, p. 716, §1.)

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