446 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 206

any goods, chattels or other personal property on the prem-
ises not exempt under this section, it shall be the duty of the
landlord, before a sale of such property shall be made under
such distraint proceedings (except in cases of personal
property in office buildings, in which cases there shall not
be such duty), to ascertain whether or not any such goods,
chattels or other personal property are being purchased by
the tenant under a conditional contract of sale defined in
Section 55 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland (1924), or mortgaged by the
tenant by a purchase money chattel mortgage under the
terms of Sections 44 to 54, inclusive, of Article 21 of the
Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
(1924), and if it shall be found that any of such property
is being purchased by the tenant under such a conditional
contract of sale or covered by a purchase money chattel
mortgage executed by said tenant, and if such additional
contract of sale or mortgage shall have been executed and
recorded in accordance with the laws of the State of Mary-
land governing the execution and recording of such instru-
ments, and if such conditional contract of sale or pur-
chase money chattel mortgage shall have been recorded
prior. to the levy under said distraint the land-
lord, except in cases of personal property in of-
fice buildings, shall either release such property from
the distraint proceedings or pay to the vendor named in
such conditional contract of sale or to the mortgagee in
such mortgage the balance due under such conditional con-
tract of sale or mortgage, and said balance, if paid, by the
landlord/shall become a part of the costs in such distraint
proceedings; and be collectible in the same manner as are
the other costs in such proceedings; and provided further
that such vendor or mortgagee shall render, upon demand
by the landlord, a true statement of the balance due under
such conditional contract of sale or mortgage, and when
said balance is paid, shall release unto said landlord such
conditional contract of sale or mortgage.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1935.

Approved April 29, 1935.