Title 8 — Environmental and Animal Control and Protection.

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Activity and use limitations” means restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with respect to real property. (2) “Common-interest community” means a condominium, cooperative, or other real property with respect to whic…

(a) Any person, including a person that owns an interest in the real property, the environmental agency, or a municipality or any other unit of local government, may be a holder. An environmental covenant may identify more than one holder. The interest of a holder is an interest …

(a) An environmental covenant must: (1) State that the instrument is an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this chapter; (2) Contain a legally sufficient description of the real property subject to the covenant; (3) Describe the activity and use limitations on the real p…

(a) An environmental covenant that complies with this chapter runs with the land. (b) An environmental covenant that is otherwise effective is valid and enforceable even if: (1) It is not appurtenant to an interest in real property; (2) It can be or has been assigned to a person …

This chapter does not authorize a use of real property that is otherwise prohibited by zoning, by law other than this chapter regulating use of real property, or by a recorded instrument that has priority over the environmental covenant. An environmental covenant may prohibit or …

(a) A copy of an environmental covenant shall be provided by the persons designated by the agency and in the manner required by the environmental agency to: (1) Each person that signed the covenant; (2) Each person holding a recorded interest in the real property subject to the c…

(a) An environmental covenant and any amendment or termination of the covenant must be recorded with District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds. For purposes of indexing, a holder shall be treated as a grantee. (b) Except as otherwise provided in § 8-671.08(c), an environmental coven…

(a) An environmental covenant is perpetual unless it is: (1) By its terms limited to a specific duration or terminated by the occurrence of a specific event; (2) Terminated by consent pursuant to § 8-671.09; (3) Terminated pursuant to subsection (b) of this section; (4) Terminate…

(a) An environmental covenant may be amended or terminated by consent only if the amendment or termination is signed by: (1) The environmental agency; (2) Unless waived by the environmental agency, the current owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant; …

(a) A civil action for injunctive or other equitable relief for violation of an environmental covenant may be maintained by: (1) A party to the covenant; (2) The Attorney General of the District of Columbia; (3) Any person to whom the covenant expressly grants power to enforce; (…

(a) The Environmental Health Administration shall establish and maintain a registry that contains all environmental covenants and any amendment or termination of those covenants. The registry may also contain any other information concerning environmental covenants and the real p…

The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2, may issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.

In applying and construing this uniform act [this chapter], consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

This chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, approved June 30, 2000 (114 Stat. 467; 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.), but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101 of that act (15 U.S.C. § 7001(a) ) or authori…