Terms Used In Iowa Code 455I.6

  • Environmental covenant: means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations or the written document creating such servitude. See Iowa Code 455I.2
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
 This chapter does not authorize a use of real property that is otherwise prohibited by zoning, by law other than this chapter regulating use of real property, or by a recorded instrument that has priority over the environmental covenant. An environmental covenant may prohibit or restrict uses of real property which are authorized by zoning or by law other than this chapter.