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Senate committee clears bill to ease title problems for a North Little Rock church parcel linked to restrictive covenants
Summary
S.B. 551 would create a narrow process for burdened property owners to render certain older, widely-enforceable restrictive covenants unenforceable when identifying beneficiaries is impracticable; the committee passed the bill after lengthy questioning about notice and scope.
The Judiciary Committee passed S.B. 551, a measure sponsors described as targeted relief for property owners who cannot sell or repurpose a parcel because longstanding restrictive covenants—often created by successive bills of assurance—make it impracticable to locate every party with enforcement rights.
Senator English introduced the bill and called Grant Cox, an attorney for the property owner, to explain a Lakewood (North Little Rock) case in which a church parcel deeded for church use only reverted to an association but cannot be put to alternative uses…
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