LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [Ch. 645

CHAPTER 645
(Senate Bill 731)
AN ACT concerning

Real Property - Retaliatory Eviction

FOR the purpose of prohibiting retaliatory evictions in
residential leases, defining retaliatory evictions,
mobile home, landlord, and tenant; to provide for
comparable local ordinances to supersede the
provisions of this Act in certain cases: to provide
an exception to this Act, and relating generally
thereto.

BY adding to

Article - Real Property

Section 8-208

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter 12 (Senate Bill 200) of the

1974 Regular Session of the General Assembly)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 8-208 be and it is hereby
added to Article — Real Property, of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (As enacted by Chapter 12 (Senate Bill 200)
of the 1974 Regular Session of the General Assembly) to
read as follows:

Article — Real Property
8-208.

(A) (1) DEFINITIONS:

(I) "MOBILE HOME" IS A HOME INCLUDING

HOUSE TRAILER BUT EXCLUDING CAMPING TRAILER, TRAVEL
TRAILER, TRUCK CAMPER, AND MOTOR HOME, WHICH IS A MOVABLE
OR PORTABLE UNIT, DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED TO BE TOWED ON
ITS OWN FRAME AMD WHEELS AND CONNECTED TO UTILITIES FOR
YEAR-ROUND OCCUPANCY. THE TERM INCLUDES: (1) A UNIT
CONTAINING PARTS THAT MAY BE FOLDED, COLLAPSED OR
TELESCOPED WHEN TOWED AND IS EXPANDABLE TO PROVIDE
ADDITIONAL CUBIC CAPACITY; AND (2) A UNIT COMPOSED OF TWO
OR MORE SEPARATELY TOWABLE COMPONENTS DESIGNED TO BE
JOINED INTO ONE INTEGRAL UNIT CAPABLE OF BEING AGAIN
SEPARATED INTO THE COMPONENTS FOR REPEATED TOWING.