(a) An environmental covenant must meet all of the following requirements:
Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-19-4
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.
Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
real property: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(1) State that the instrument is an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this chapter.(2) Contain a legally sufficient description of the real property subject to the covenant.(3) Describe the activity and use limitations on the real property.(4) Identify every holder.(5) Be signed by the director, every holder, and unless waived by the agency, every owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant.(6) Identify the name and location of any administrative record for the environmental response project reflected in the environmental covenant.(b) In addition to the information required by subsection (a), an environmental covenant may contain other information, restrictions, and requirements agreed to by the persons who signed it, including any of the following:
(1) Requirements for notice following transfer of a specified interest in, or concerning proposed changes in use of, applications for building permits for, or proposals for any site work affecting the contamination on, the property subject to the covenant.(2) Requirements for periodic reporting describing compliance with the covenant.(3) Rights of access to the property granted in connection with implementation or enforcement of the covenant.(4) A brief narrative description 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.(5) An exculpatory provision that releases the grantor from future claims by the grantee or the grantee’s successor in title that is consistent and enforceable under the laws of this state.(6) Limitation on amendment or termination of the covenant in addition to those contained in Sections 35-19-9 and 35-19-10.(7) Rights of the holder in addition to its right to enforce the covenant pursuant to Section 35-19-11.(c) In addition to other conditions for its 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.
