Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907 – Definitions
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Activity and use limitations” means restrictions or obligations with respect to real property created under this subchapter.
(2) “Common interest community” means a condominium 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 for property taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community.
(3) “Department” means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC).
(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, conducted:
a. Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real property, including Chapter 91 of this title, Delaware Hazardous Substance Cleanup Act (HSCA), Chapter 74 of this title, the Delaware Underground Storage Tank Act, and Chapter 74A of this title, the Jeffrey Davis Aboveground Storage Tank Act;
b. Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the closure is conducted with approval of the Department; or
c. Under a state voluntary cleanup program authorized in Chapters 60, 63, 74, 74A and 91 of this title.
(6) “Holder” means a person that is the grantee of an environmental covenant.
(7) “Owner” means a person that owns a fee simple interest in real property that is subject to an environmental covenant.
(8) “Person” means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, federal agency, partnership, corporation (including a government corporation or authority), limited liability company, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body.
(9) “Record,” when 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.
(10) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control or the Secretary’s duly authorized designee.
(11) “State” means the State of Delaware, in the United States.
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Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- Activity and use limitations: means restrictions or obligations with respect to real property created under this subchapter. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- Common interest community: means a condominium 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 for property taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC). See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- Environmental covenant: means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- Environmental response project: means a plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property, conducted:
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Grantee: includes every person to whom a freehold estate or interest is conveyed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, federal agency, partnership, corporation (including a government corporation or authority), limited liability company, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control or the Secretary's duly authorized designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- State: means the State of Delaware, in the United States. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
- United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302