(1) No conservation easement in gross shall be unenforceable by reason of lack of privity of contract or lack of benefit to particular land or because not expressed as running with the land.
Actual or threatened injury to or impairment of a conservation easement in gross orthe interest intended for protection by such easement may be prohibited or restrained by injunctive relief granted by any court of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding initiated by the grantor or by an owner of the easement.
In addition to the remedy of injunctive relief, the holder of a conservation easementin gross shall be entitled to recover money damages for injury thereto or to the interest to be protected thereby. In assessing such damages, there may be taken into account, in addition to the cost of restoration and other usual rules of the law of damages, the loss of scenic, aesthetic, and environmental values.
Source: L. 76: Entire article added, p. 752, § 1, effective July 1.