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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="1-802" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions; Enforcement" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Environmental Covenants Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An environmental covenant shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>State that the instrument is an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Contain a legally sufficient description of the real property subject to the covenant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Describe the activity and use limitations on the real property;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Identify every holder;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Be signed by the Agency and every holder;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Unless excepted by the Agency, be signed by every owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Identify the name and location of any administrative record for the environmental response project reflected in the environmental covenant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In addition to the information required under subsection (a) of this section, an environmental covenant may contain other information, restrictions, and requirements agreed to by the persons who signed it, including any:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Requirements for notice following transfer of a specified interest in, or concerning proposed changes in use of, applications for building permits or proposals for any site work affecting the contamination on the property subject to the covenant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Requirements for periodic reporting describing compliance with the covenant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Rights of access to the property granted in connection with implementation or enforcement of the covenant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Brief narrative descriptions of the contamination and remedy, including the contaminants of concern, the pathways of exposure, limits on exposure, and the location and extent of the contamination;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Limitations on amendment or termination of the covenant in addition to those provided under §§ 1-808 and 1-809 of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Rights of the holder in addition to the holder’s right to enforce the covenant under § 1-810 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In addition to other conditions for the Agency’s approval of an environmental covenant, the Agency may require those persons specified by the Agency who have interests in the real property to sign the covenant.</text>
  </level>
</section>
