1786                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 880

section on Consumer Protection relating to sale, notice, replevin, and related
matters; clarifying provisions as to verdicts and judgment in detinue actions; and
providing generally for improved procedures in replevin, detinue, and distress,
including replevy of aircraft by owner and replevy of motor vehicle, or part
thereof, by owner.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 145(c) of Article 26 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Cumulative Supplement), title "Courts," subtitle "District
Courts," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

145.

(c) (1) The District Court [shall have] HAS jurisdiction at law in all cases for
the enforcement of contracts and to obtain redress for wrongs where the debt or
damages claimed do not exceed [five thousand dollars (]$5,000[.00)]; in actions
[or] OF replevin [where] REGARDLESS OF the value of the thing in
controversy [does not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00)]; in all cases of
attachment on original process where the sum claimed does not exceed [five
thousand dollars (]$5,000[.00)]; in all other civil action over which the People's
Court of Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel, Prince George's,
Montgomery or Wicomico County had jurisdiction prior to [the effective date of
this section in each such county] JULY 5, 1971, and where the amount in
controversy does not exceed [five thousand dollars (]$5,000[.00)]; and in all
actions involving landlord and tenant, distraint, forcible entry and detainer and
grantee suits regardless of the amount involved.

(2)   In all those civil actions listed in paragraph (1) hereof, the District Court
shall have exclusive original jurisdiction where the amount in controversy does not
exceed [two thousand five hundred dollars (]$2,500[.00)]; provided that the court
shall have exclusive original jurisdiction in actions involving landlord and tenant,
distraint, forcible entry and detainer [and] grantee suits AND ACTIONS OF
REPLEVIN regardless of the amount involved. Jurisdiction shall be concurrent
with the circuit court in all cases where the amount in controversy exceeds [two
thousand five hundred dollars (]$2,500[.00)], but does not exceed [five thousand
dollars (]$5,000[.00)].

(3)    (i) The venue provisions of Article 75, § 75 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, 1957 Edition, as amended, shall apply to all civil actions in the District
Court.

(ii) In [all] A civil [actions where] ACTION IN WHICH the amount in
controversy exceeds [five hundred dollars (]$500[.00)] either party [shall have a
right] MAY within [such] THE time [as] prescribed by rule, [to] demand a trial
by jury in which event the case shall be transmitted [forthwith] to the circuit court
in the county in which the cause of action arose or was filed, or to the Superior
Court of Baltimore City if the cause of action arose or was filed in the City of
Baltimore.

(III) IN A REPLEVIN ACTION IN WHICH A DEMAND FOR JURY
TRIAL IS FILED:

(1) THE DISTRICT COURT HAS JURISDICTION TO CONDUCT
THE HEARING ON THE SHOW CAUSE ORDER PRIOR TO ISSUING
THE WRIT, TO ENFORCE ANY INJUNCTION ISSUED BY IT IN THE
ACTION, AND TO ISSUE, RENEW AND RECEIVE RETURNS UPON
THE WRIT OF REPLEVIN; AND