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Miss. Code Ann. § 89-23-13

Notice requirement; penalty for failure to provide notice

Known as the Mississippi Uniform Environmental Covenants Act

The act spans §§ 89–89 (14 sections).

Laws, 2008, ch. 398, § 7, eff from and after July 1, 2008.

A copy of an environmental covenant shall be provided by the persons and in the manner required by the agency to:

(1) Each person that signed the covenant;

(2) Each person holding a recorded interest in the real property subject to the covenant;

(3) Each person in possession of the real property subject to the covenant;

(4) Each municipality or other unit of local government in which real property subject to the covenant is located; and

(5) Any other person the agency requires.

The validity of a covenant is not affected by failure to provide a copy of the covenant as required under this section.

Failure by any person to provide a copy of the covenant in the manner required by the agency shall be punishable by a civil penalty to be determined by the Commission on Environmental Quality consistent with the terms and provisions of Section 49-17-43.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.