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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="1-801" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions; Enforcement" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Environmental Covenants Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Activity and use limitation” means a restriction or obligation created under this subtitle with respect to real property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Agency” means the Department or any other state or federal agency that determines or approves the environmental response project pursuant to which an environmental covenant is created.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Common interest community” means 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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Environmental covenant” means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Environmental response project” means a plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property that is conducted:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real property, including Title 7, Subtitle 5 of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the closure is conducted with approval of an agency.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Holder” means the grantee of an environmental covenant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory 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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Record”, when 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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</text>
  </level>
</section>
