(a) An environmental covenant may be amended or terminated by consent; provided that the amendment or termination is signed by:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-10

  • Agency: means the department of health or any other state or federal agency that determines or approves the environmental response project pursuant to which the environmental covenant is created. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
  • 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.
  • Environmental covenant: means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Holder: means a grantee of an environmental covenant as specified in section 508C-3(a) who, by virtue of the covenant, holds an interest in the real property subject to the covenant, and who accepts certain rights and obligations as stated in the covenant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
  • 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: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in any medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 508C-2
(1) The agency;
(2) Unless waived by the agency, the current owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant;
(3) Each person that originally signed the covenant, unless the person waived in a signed record the right to consent or [an] environmental court finds that the person no longer exists or cannot be located or identified with the exercise of reasonable diligence; and
(4) 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 shall not be 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 shall be considered an amendment.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in an environmental covenant:

(1) A holder may not assign the holder’s interest without consent of the other parties specified in subsection (a); and
(2) A holder may be removed and replaced by agreement of the other parties specified in subsection (a).
(e) [An] environmental court of competent jurisdiction may fill a vacancy in the position of a holder.

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