Oklahoma § 60-49.12 - Definitions

§ 60-49.12. Definitions

DEFINITIONS.

In the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act:

1. “Activity and use limitations” means restrictions or

obligations created under this act with respect to real property;

2. “Agency” means the Department of Environmental Quality or

any other state or federal agency that determines or approves the

environmental response project pursuant to which the environmental

covenant is created;

3. “Common interest community” means a condominium,

cooperative, or other real property with respect to which a person,

by virtue of the person’s ownership of a parcel of real property, is

obligated to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or for

maintenance, or improvement of other real property described in a

recorded covenant that creates the common interest community;

4. “Environmental covenant” means a servitude arising under an

environmental response project that imposes activity and use

limitations;

5. “Environmental response project” means a plan or work

performed for environmental remediation of real property and

conducted:

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 60. Property

a.

under a federal or state program governing

environmental remediation of real property, including

remedial actions provided for in the Oklahoma

Environmental Quality Code,

b.

incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste

management unit, if the closure is conducted with

approval of an agency, or

c.

under a state voluntary cleanup program authorized in

the Oklahoma Brownfields Voluntary Redevelopment Act;

6. “Holder” means the grantee of an environmental covenant as

specified in subsection A of Section 3 of this act;

7. “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust,

estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association,

joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental

subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or

commercial entity;

8. “Record”, used as a noun, means information that is

inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or

other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and

9. “State” means a state of the United States, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any

territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the

United States.

Added by Laws 2006, c. 182, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.