Maryland Code, ENVIRONMENT 1-801
Terms Used In Maryland Code, ENVIRONMENT 1-801
- 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.
- including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- 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: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See
(b) “Activity and use limitation” means a restriction or obligation created under this subtitle with respect to real property.
(c) “Agency” means the Department or any other state or federal agency that determines or approves the environmental response project pursuant to which an environmental covenant is created.
(d) “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.
(e) “Environmental covenant” means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations.
(f) “Environmental response project” means a plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property that is conducted:
(1) Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real property, including Title 7, Subtitle 5 of this article; or
(2) Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the closure is conducted with approval of an agency.
(g) “Holder” means the grantee of an environmental covenant.
(h) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory 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.
(i) “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.
(j) “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.