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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="1-809" 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 may be amended or terminated by consent only if the amendment or termination is signed by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Agency;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless waived by the Agency, the current owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Each person that originally signed the covenant, unless:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The person waived in a signed record the right to consent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A court finds that the person no longer exists or cannot be located or identified with the exercise of reasonable diligence; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d)(2) of this section, the holder.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If an interest in real property is subject to an environmental covenant, the interest is not affected by an amendment of the covenant unless the current owner of the interest consents to the amendment or has waived in a signed record the right to consent to amendments.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except for an assignment undertaken in accordance with a governmental reorganization, assignment of an environmental covenant to a new holder shall be considered to be an amendment of the covenant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in an environmental covenant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A holder may not assign its interest without consent of the other parties; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A holder may be removed and replaced by agreement of the other parties specified in subsection (a) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A court of competent jurisdiction may fill a vacancy in the position of holder.</text>
  </level>
</section>
