West Virginia Code § 22-22B-4

Contents of environmental covenant
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(a) An environmental covenant must:
(1) State that the instrument is an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this article;
(2) Contain a legally sufficient description of the real property subject to the covenant;
(3) Describe the activity and use limitations on the real property;
(4) Identify every holder;
(5) Be signed and notarized by the agency, every holder, and unless waived by the agency
every owner of the fee simple of the real property subject tot the covenant; and
(6) Identify the name and location of any administrative record for the environmental
response project reflected in the environmental covenant.
(b) In addition to the information required by subsection (a) of this section, an environmental
covenant may contain other information, restrictions and requirements agreed to by the
persons who signed it, including any:
(1) Requirements for notice following transfer of a specified interest in, or concerning
proposed changes in use of, apeplications for building permits for, or proposals for any site
work affecting the contamination on, the property subject to the covenant;
(2) Requirements for periodic reporting describing compliance with the covenant;
(3) Rights of access to the property granted in connection with implementation or
enforcement of the covenant;
(4) A brief narrative description of the contamination and remedy, including the
contaminants of concern, the pathways of exposure, limits on exposure and the location and
extent of the contamination;
(5) Limitation on amendment or termination of the covenant in addition to those contained in
sections nine and ten of this article; and
(6) Rights of the holder in addition to its right to enforce the covenant pursuant to section
eleven of this article.
(c) In addition to other conditions for its approval of an environmental covenant, the agency
may require those persons specified by the agency who have interests in the real property to
sign the covenant.

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