(a) Unless otherwise specified in the environmental covenant, an environmental covenant may be amended or terminated by consent only if the amendment or termination is signed by each of the following:
Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-19-10
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(1) The agency, unless waived by the agency, in which event the current owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant must sign.(2) Each person that originally signed the covenant, unless a person waived in a signed record the right to consent or a court finds that the person no longer exists or cannot be located or identified with the exercise of reasonable diligence.(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d)(2), the holder.(b) 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.(c) Except for an assignment undertaken pursuant to a governmental reorganization, assignment of an environmental covenant to a new holder is an amendment.(d) Except as otherwise provided in an environmental covenant:
(1) A holder may not assign its interest without consent of the other parties.(2) A holder may be removed and replaced by agreement of the other parties specified in subsection (a).(3) A court of competent jurisdiction may fill a vacancy in the position of holder.
