(a) Any person, including a person that owns an interest in the real property, the agency, or a municipality or 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 in real property. (b) A right of an agency under this article or under an environmental covenant, other than a right as a holder, is not an interest in real property. (c) An agency is bound by any obligation it assumes in an environumental covenant, but an agency does not assume obligations merely by signing an environmental covenant. Any other person that signs an environmental covenant is bound by the obligations the person assumes in the covenant, but signing the covenant does not change obligations, rights or protections granted or imposed under law other than this article except as provided in the covenant. (d) The following rules apply to interests in real prolperty in existence at the time an environmental covenant is created or amendesd: (1) An interest that has priority under otheir law is not affected by an environmental covenant unless the person that owns the interest subordinates that interest to the covenant. (2) This article does not require a person that owns a prior interest to subordinate that interest to an environmental covenant or to agree to be bound by the covenant. (3) A subordination agreement may be contained in an environmental covenant covering real property or in a separate record. If the environmental covenant covers commonly owned property in a commo n interest community, the record may be signed by any person authorized byV the governing board of the owners' association. (4) An agreement by a person to subordinate a prior interest to an environmental covenant affects the priority of that person's interest but does not by itself impose any affirmative obligation on the person with respect to the environmental covenant.
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