27 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 65 - Uniform Environmental Covenants

• Chapter Notes
• Section 6501 - Short Title Of Chapter
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
• Section 6502 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 6503 - Nature Of Rights; Subordination Of Interests
  (a) Nature.--Any person, including a person that owns an interest in the real property, or an agency may be a holder. An environmental covenant...
• Section 6504 - Contents Of Environmental Covenant
  (a) Required information.--An environmental covenant must: (1) state that the instrument is an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this chapter; (2) contain a legally...
• Section 6505 - Validity
  (a) Nature.--An environmental covenant which complies with this chapter runs with the land. (b) Impediments excluded.--An environmental covenant which is otherwise effective is valid...
• Section 6506 - Relationship To Other Land-use Law
  (a) Effect on unauthorized uses.--This chapter does not authorize a use of real property which is otherwise prohibited by: (1) zoning; (2) law other...
• Section 6507 - Notice
  (a) Recipients.--The owner or another person designated by the agency shall provide a copy of a signed environmental covenant as required by the agency...
• Section 6508 - Recording
  (a) Requirement.--An environmental covenant, any amendment or termination of the environmental covenant and a waiver under section 6510(a)(3)(i) or (b)(2) (relating to amendment or...
• Section 6509 - Duration
  (a) Perpetual.--An environmental covenant is perpetual unless one of the following applies: (1) It is limited by its terms to a specific duration or...
• Section 6510 - Amendment Or Termination By Consent
  (a) Signature.--An environmental covenant may be amended or terminated by consent only if the amendment or termination is signed by all of the following:...
• Section 6511 - Enforcement Of Environmental Covenant
  (a) Parties.--A civil action for injunctive or other equitable relief for violation of an environmental covenant may be maintained by: (1) a party to...
• Section 6512 - Registry; Substitute Notice
  (a) Registry.--The department shall establish and maintain a registry which contains all environmental covenants and any amendment or termination of those covenants. The registry...
• Section 6513 - Uniformity Of Application And Construction
  In applying and construing this chapter as a uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with...
• Section 6514 - Relation To Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act
  § 6514. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. (a) General rule.--Except as set forth in subsection (b), this chapter modifies,...
• Section 6515 - Environmental Quality Board
  (a) Regulations.--The Environmental Quality Board has the power and duty to promulgate regulations for the proper performance of work of the department under this...
• Section 6516 - Appealable Actions
  Actions of the department under this chapter shall be considered appealable actions under the act of July 13, 1988 (P.L.530, No.94), known as the...
• Section 6517 - Relationship To Other Laws
  (a) Prospective environmental response projects.-- (1) Unless waived by the department, engineering controls or institutional controls required to demonstrate attainment of a remediation standard...

Last modified: October 8, 2016