Delaware Code § 7-7917

Registry; substitute notice
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(a) The Department 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 property subject
to them which the Department considers appropriate. The registry is a public record for purposes of Freedom of Information Act [Chapter
100 of Title 29].
(b) After an environmental covenant or an amendment or termination of a covenant is filed in the registry pursuant to subsection (a)
of this section, a notice of the covenant, amendment, or termination that complies with this section may be recorded in the land records
in lieu of recording the entire covenant. Any such notice must contain:
(1) A legally sufficient description and any available street address of the real property;
(2) The name and address of the owner of the real property, the Department, and the holder if other than the Department;
(3) A statement that the covenant, amendment, or termination is available in a registry at the Department, and disclosing the method
of any electronic access; and
(4) A statement that the notice is notification of an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this subchapter.
(c) A statement in executed with the same formalities as a deed in this state satisfies the requirements of subsection (b) of this section:
(1) This notice is filed in the land records of the deeds of county of jurisdiction in which the real property is located pursuant to

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