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3.__Limitation.__Except as provided in this chapter, a working
waterfront covenant is unlimited in duration unless a change of
circumstances renders the working waterfront covenant no longer
in the public interest as determined in an action under section
133, subsection 2.

 
4.__Filing.__A working waterfront covenant must be recorded in
the County Registry of Deeds, and a copy of the covenant must be
filed with the Executive Department, State Planning Office
together with a map showing with specificity the location of the
affected real estate on the form or forms that the State Planning
Office requires.

 
5.__Other interest.__An interest in real property in existence
at the time a working waterfront covenant is created is not
affected by the covenant unless the owner of the interest is a
party to the covenant or consents to the covenant.

 
6.__Right to enter land.__The instrument creating a working
waterfront covenant must provide for the right by the qualified
holder to enter the real property to ensure compliance.

 
§133. Judicial actions

 
1.__Owners; qualified holders.__An action affecting a working
waterfront covenant may be brought or intervened in by:

 
A.__An owner of an interest in the real property burdened by
the covenant;

 
B.__A qualified holder of the benefit of the working
waterfront covenant;

 
C.__The municipality in which the real property burdened by
the covenant is located; or

 
D.__The Attorney General.

 
2.__Power of court.__The court has the following powers.

 
A.__The court may enforce a working waterfront covenant by
injunction or other proceeding at law or in equity.

 
B.__Acting in accordance with charitable trust principles, the
court may modify, terminate or deny equitable enforcement of a
working waterfront covenant in an action brought by a party
pursuant to subsection 1.__In taking such an action, the court
must find that, due to a change in circumstance, the covenant no
longer serves the public interest in protecting or enhancing the
commercial marine


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