                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 10.1-1238)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different
meaning:		&#8220;Activity and use limitations&#8221; means restrictions or
obligations created under this chapter with respect to real
property.		&#8220;Agency&#8221; 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.		&#8220;Common interest community&#8221; means a condominium,
cooperative, or other real property with respect to which a person, by virtue of
the person&#8217;s ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated to pay
property taxes or insurance premiums, for maintenance or improvement of other
real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest
community.		&#8220;Department&#8221; means the Department of Environmental
Quality.		&#8220;Environmental covenant&#8221; means a servitude arising under
an environmental response project that imposes activity and use
limitations.		&#8220;Environmental response project&#8221; means a plan or work
performed for environmental remediation of real property and conducted:

1. Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real
property;

2. Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the
closure is conducted with approval of an agency; or

3. Under a state voluntary clean-up program including the Brownfield Restoration
and Land Renewal Act (&#xA7; 10.1-1230 et seq.).
			&#8220;Holder&#8221; means the grantee of an environmental covenant as
specified in subsection A of &#xA7; 10.1-1239.			&#8220;Person&#8221; 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.			&#8220;Record,&#8221; 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.			&#8220;State&#8221; 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.

HISTORY: 2010, c. 691.