C.__Municipal and private piers and wharves operated to provide waterfront access to commercial fishermen, aquaculturists or fishermen's cooperatives.

2.__Qualified holder.__"Qualified holder" or "holder" means a governmental entity authorized to hold an interest in real property or a nonprofit organization organized under state law whose purposes include the permanent protection of working waterfront or the enlargement of working waterfront opportunities for commercial fisheries businesses.

3. Third-party right of enforcement. "Third-party right of enforcement" means a right provided in a working waterfront covenant to enforce any of its terms granted by the grantor and holder of the covenant to a governmental body or nonprofit corporation that meets the qualifications of a holder.

4.__Working waterfront covenant.__"Working waterfront covenant" means an agreement in recordable form between the owner of working waterfront real estate and one or more qualified holders that permits a qualified holder to control, either directly or indirectly, the use, ownership and sales price of working waterfront real estate for the primary purpose of making and preserving the permanent availability and affordability of that real estate for commercial fisheries businesses.__A working waterfront covenant may include a 3rd-party right of enforcement.

5.__Working waterfront real estate.__"Working waterfront real estate" or "real estate" means land, legally filled lands, piers, wharves and other improvements to lands all adjacent to the navigable coastal waters of the State.

§132. Creation; conveyance; acceptance; duration; filing

1.__Working waterfront covenant.__Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a working waterfront covenant may be created, conveyed, recorded, assigned, released, modified, terminated or otherwise altered or affected in the same manner as other real estate covenants created by written instrument.

2.__Right or duty.__A right or duty in favor of or against a qualified holder may not arise under a working waterfront covenant unless it is accepted in writing by the qualified holder.