New terms take effect prospectively while every earlier usage keeps the commercial snapshot that originally explained it.
Track
Accesses & Agreements
Phase
Term continuity
Starts with
Agreement approaching change
Ends with
Prospective terms with history preserved
The landowner, dates, or commercial terms change.
Operations renews expiring terms or supersedes materially different terms.
This is the key moment: renewal changes future resolution without rewriting past charges.
Chooses the correct dated renewal structure.
Relies on unchanged historical financial basis.
Prevents unexplained overlap and preserves snapshots.
Current, future, and historical terms without ambiguity.
Why: Maintain agreement continuity.
The original basis behind settled records.
Why: Protect financial traceability.
New terms apply prospectively; historical usage never changes its Agreement or fee-rule snapshot silently.