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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="1-808" 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 is perpetual unless it is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>By its terms, limited to a specific duration or terminated by the occurrence of a specific event;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Terminated by consent as provided under § 1-809 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Terminated under subsection (b) of this section;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Terminated by foreclosure of an interest that has priority over the environmental covenant; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Terminated or modified in an eminent domain proceeding, if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Agency that signed the covenant is a party to the proceeding;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Each person identified in § 1-809(a) and (b) of this subtitle is given notice of the pendency of the proceeding; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The court determines, after a hearing, that the termination or modification will not adversely affect human health or the environment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the Agency that signed an environmental covenant has determined that the intended benefits of the covenant can no longer be realized, a court, under the doctrine of changed circumstances, in an action in which all persons identified in § 1-809(a) and (b) of this subtitle have been given notice, may terminate the covenant or reduce its burden on the real property subject to the covenant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Agency’s determination or its failure to make a determination upon request is subject to review in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, an environmental covenant may not be extinguished, limited, or impaired through issuance of a tax deed, foreclosure of a tax lien, or application of the doctrine of adverse possession, prescription, abandonment, waiver, lack of enforcement, or acquiescence, or a similar doctrine.</text>
  </level>
</section>
