Nebraska Statutes 66-1528. Person receiving conveyance; action; not barred
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Nothing in the Petroleum Release Remedial Action Act shall be construed to bar a common-law, statutory, or any other cause of action which may be maintained against a responsible person by a private person who, subsequent to a release, received a conveyance of any right, title, or interest in the parcel of real property on which such release occurred.
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 66-1528
- Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Release: shall mean any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of petroleum from a tank or any overfilling of a tank into ground water, surface water, surface soils, or subsurface soils whether occurring before, on, or after May 27, 1989. See Nebraska Statutes 66-1512
- Remedial action: shall mean any immediate or long-term response to a release or suspected release in accordance with rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the department or the State Fire Marshal, including tank testing only in conjunction with a release or suspected release, site investigation, site assessment, cleanup, restoration, mitigation, and any other action ordered by the department or the State Fire Marshal which is reasonable and necessary. See Nebraska Statutes 66-1513
- Responsible person: shall mean a person who is an owner or operator of a tank. See Nebraska Statutes 66-1514