Code of Alabama - Title 35: Property - Chapter 19 - Alabama Unform Environmental Covenants Act

• Section 35-19-1 Short title
  This act may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
• Section 35-19-2 Definitions
  The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ACTIVITY AND USE LIMITATIONS. Restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with respect to real property....
• Section 35-19-3 Requirements for environmental covenants
  (a) Any person, including a person that owns an interest in the real property, an agency, or a municipality or other unit of local government,...
• Section 35-19-4 Interest holders; rights of holders and agencies; priority
  (a) An environmental covenant must meet all of the following requirements: (1) State that the instrument is an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this chapter....
• Section 35-19-5 Validity and enforceability of environmental covenants
  (a) An environmental covenant that complies with this chapter runs with the land. (b) An environmental covenant that is otherwise effective is valid and enforceable...
• Section 35-19-6 Relation to zoning and other laws regulating use
  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...
• Section 35-19-7 To whom copies must be provided
  (a) A copy of an environmental covenant shall be provided by the persons and in the manner required by the agency to each of the...
• Section 35-19-8 Recording of environmental covenants
  (a) An environmental covenant and any amendment or termination of the covenant must be recorded in every county in which any portion of the real...
• Section 35-19-9 Duration of environmental covenants
  (a) An environmental covenant is perpetual unless any of the following conditions apply: (1) The covenant is limited to a specific duration or terminated by...
• Section 35-19-10 Amendment or termination of environmental covenant
  (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...
• Section 35-19-11 Administration and enforcement of chapter
  (a) The department is designated as the administrating agency for this chapter and is empowered to administer and enforce this chapter using the authorities granted...
• Section 35-19-12 Registry of environmental covenants
  (a) The Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall establish and maintain a registry that contains all environmental covenants and any amendment or termination of those...
• Section 35-19-13 Regulations; fees
  The department is authorized to adopt regulations and assess fees to implement provisions of this chapter.
• Section 35-19-14 Construction with federal law
  This chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq.) but does not...

Last modified: May 3, 2021