{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-224.80-100","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 224.80-100","heading":"Definitions for subchapter.","body":"As used in this subchapter:\n(1) \"Activity and use limitations\" means  restrictions or obligations created under\nKRS  224.80-100 to 224.80-210.\n(2) \"Applicant\" means  a person applying to the cabinet for approval of an\nenvironmental covenant.\n(3) \"Cabinet\" means the Energy and Environment Cabinet.\n(4) \"Common  interest community\" means  a condominium, cooperative, or other\nreal property owned by a person as part of a parcel of real property for which\nthere is an  obligation to pay  property taxes, insurance premiums,  or\nmaintenance, or to make improvements to the real property as described and\nestablished in a recorded environmental covenant.\n(5) \"Environmental covenant\" means  a servitude arising under an environmental\nresponse project that imposes activity and use limitations.\n(6) \"Environmental response project\" means  a plan or work performed for the\nenvironmental remediation of real property conducted:\n(a) Under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of\nreal property including programs established pursuant to KRS  224.1-400,\n224.1-405, 224.46-530, and 224.1-450 to 224.1-465;\n(b) Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management  unit, if the\nclosure is conducted with approval of the cabinet; or\n(c) Under  a Commonwealth  voluntary cleanup program authorized under\nKRS  224.1-510 to 224.1-532.\n(7) \"Holder\" means the grantee of an environmental covenant.\n(8) \"Indexing\" means  the practice or method kept by a county clerk's office to\nrecord legal property transactions.\n(9) \"Interest\" means all or part of a legal equitable claim to a right in real property\nwhich shall include both possessory and nonpossessory interests.\n(10) \"Owner\" means a person that owns a fee simple interest or any other interest\nin real property that is subject to an environmental covenant.\n(11) \"Person\" shall have the meaning specified in KRS 224.1-010(16).\n(12) \"Public notice\" means  the publication of required information in a daily or\nweekly newspaper of major circulation located in the county or counties where\nthe property subject to the proposed environmental covenant is located. If there\nis no daily or weekly newspaper of major circulation in the county or counties\nwhere the property is located, public notice shall mean  publication of required\ninformation in a daily or weekly newspaper of major circulation in a county\nadjacent to the county or counties where the property is located.\n(13) \"Subordination agreement\" means  an agreement affecting priority of interests\nin a real property that is subject to an environmental covenant.\n(14) \"Servitude\" means a right, burden, or restriction on the use of real property that\npasses  from the current owner  or tenant to any owners  or tenants in\nsuccession.","path":[],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=46541","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:52:42Z","sha256":"ae4860f5aecadace26f07e5ec548ad19e43a9086308043a0d4edee9fc660ca3a","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-224.795","next":"us-ky/krs-224.80-110"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}