Ch. 2                                 MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                      5

Property," "Horizontal Property Act," "Eminent Domain," "Land Patents,"
"Miscellaneous Rules," "Effective Date and Applicability," subtitles "General
Rules and Exceptions," "Forms," "Mortgages and Deeds of Trust," "Distress for
Rent," "Landlords' Remedies Other than Distraint" "Land Installment
Contracts," "Express and Implied Warranties," "Recorded Land Contracts,"
"General Rules," and "Relocation Assistance," respectively, be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

3-101.

(a) No estate of inheritance or freehold, or any declaration or limitation of use,
or any estate above seven years, or any mortgage or deed of trust or assignment or
release thereof, shall pass or take effect unless the deed conveying the same shall
be executed and recorded subject, however, to the following:

(1)  None of the requirements of this § 3-101(a) shall apply to any other method
of transferring or creating an estate, declaration or limitation which is now or
hereafter permitted by the law of this State except to the extent required by such
law.

(2)  The recording requirements of this § 3-101(a) shall not apply to any lease
for an initial term not exceeding seven years if each renewal term thereunder (i) is
for seven years or less and (ii) may, by the provisions of the lease, be effected or
prevented by a party to such lease or his assigns.

(3)  If a lease required to be executed and recorded under the provisions of this §
3-101 (a) is executed but not recorded, such lease shall, nevertheless, be valid and
binding, and of full force and effect both at law and in equity (i) between the
original parties to such lease and their personal representatives, (ii) against their
creditors and (iii) against AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF any other person who
claims by, through or under an original party and who acquires the interest
claimed with actual notice of such lease or at a time when the tenant (or anyone
claiming by, through or under the tenant) is in such actual occupancy as to give
reasonable notice to such person.

3-108.

(a) Whenever the owner of land in the State of Maryland shall subdivide his
lands, for town or villa sites, streets, avenues, lanes or alleys and lots, and shall
desire, for the purpose of description and identification, a plat of said subdivision
to be made to be recorded among the land records of the county in which the land
is situate, the clerk of the court is hereby directed to receive and record the same
as hereinafter directed, but the said clerk shall not receive for record, nor allow to
be recorded in his office, any such plat, until the requirements hereinafter
prescribed shall have been complied with.

Such plats must be drawn accurately to scale and may be made on a good
quality of tracing linen or be blueprints or blue or black line prints on linen; shall
contain the courses and distances of all the outline or perimeter of as must of the
whole tract, proposed to be subdivided, as is shown on the plat and on all roads,
streets and avenues. Where the alleys and lot lines shown on the plat are not
parallel with the roads, streets and avenues, the courses and distances of such lines
shall be put on the plat. The radii and chords of all curved lines shall be shown on
the plat by courses and distances and their tangent points located by the
coordinates hereinafter defined. The plat shall show a meridian line drawn through
one of the corners of the outline or perimeter of the whole tract and another line
drawn at right angles to said meridian through the same point. The meridian, so
drawn, shall be either a true meridian or the magnetic meridian of the date of the
plat and so marked on the plat. From the said meridian and right angle line all the