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224.80-100 Definitions for subchapter.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) "Activity and use limitations" means restrictions or obligations created under KRS
224.80-100 to 224.80-210.
(2) "Applicant" means a person applying to the cabinet for approval of an
environmental covenant.
(3) "Cabinet" means the Energy and Environment Cabinet.
(4) "Common interest community" means a condominium, cooperative, or other real
property owned by a person as part of a parcel of real property for which there is an
obligation to pay property taxes, insurance premiums, or maintenance, or to make
improvements to the real property as described and established in a recorded
environmental covenant.
(5) "Environmental covenant" means a servitude arising under an environmental
response project that imposes activity and use limitations.
(6) "Environmental response project" means a plan or work performed for the
environmental remediation of real property conducted:
(a) Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real
property including programs established pursuant to KRS 224.1-400, 224.1405, 224.46-530, and 224.1-450 to 224.1-465;
(b) Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the
closure is conducted with approval of the cabinet; or
(c) Under a Commonwealth voluntary cleanup program authorized under KRS
224.1-510 to 224.1-532.
(7) "Holder" means the grantee of an environmental covenant.
(8) "Indexing" means the practice or method kept by a county clerk's office to record
legal property transactions.
(9) "Interest" means all or part of a legal equitable claim to a right in real property
which shall include both possessory and nonpossessory interests.
(10) "Owner" means a person that owns a fee simple interest or any other interest in real
property that is subject to an environmental covenant.
(11) "Person" shall have the meaning specified in KRS 224.1-010(17).
(12) "Public notice" means the publication of required information in a daily or weekly
newspaper of major circulation located in the county or counties where the property
subject to the proposed environmental covenant is located. If there is no daily or
weekly newspaper of major circulation in the county or counties where the property
is located, public notice shall mean publication of required information in a daily or
weekly newspaper of major circulation in a county adjacent to the county or
counties where the property is located.
(13) "Subordination agreement" means an agreement affecting priority of interests in a
real property that is subject to an environmental covenant.
(14) "Servitude" means a right, burden, or restriction on the use of real property that
passes from the current owner or tenant to any owners or tenants in succession.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 383, effective July 15, 2010. -- Created
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 1, effective June 20, 2005.
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