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Property Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2013
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DIVISION 2. PROPERTY
PART 2. REAL OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
TITLE 2. ESTATES IN REAL PROPERTY
Chapter 4. Conservation Easements*
Section 815.1
815.1. "Conservation easement." For the purposes of this chapter, "conservation easement" means any limitation in a deed, will, or other instrument in the form of an easement, restriction, covenant, or condition, which is or has been executed by or on behalf of the owner of the land subject to such easement and is binding upon successive owners of such land, and the purpose of which is to retain land predominantly in its natural, scenic, historical, agricultural, forested, or open-space condition.
* Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 179, in effect January 1, 1980.