2402                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [Ch. 699

AN ACT concerning

Landlords and Tenants — Vacating Residential Leases

FOR the purpose of providing that [[no tenant under a
residential lease is required to give the landlord
more than a certain number of days written notice of
his intent to vacate ]] the number of days of written
notice which is required to remove and surrender
possession of leased residential property shall be
the same from the tenant as from the landlord with a
certain exception.

[[BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 21 — Real Property

Section 8-402(b)(4)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)]]

By adding to

Article — Real Property

Section 8—501, to be under the new subtitle "Tenant

Remedies"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Ch. 12 (S.B.200) of the Acts of the 1974
Regular Session of the General Assembly)

[[SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF MARYLAND, That Section 8-402(b)(4) of Article 21 -
Real Property, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1973
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 21 — Real Property]]

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That new Section 8—501, to be under the new

subtitle "Tenant Remedies", be and it is hereby added to

Article — Real Property, of the Annotated Code of

Maryland, (as enacted by Chapter 12 (S.B.200) of the Acts
of 1974 Regular Session of the General Assembly) to read
as follows:

Article — Real Property
[[8-4 02.

(b) (4) The provisions of § 8-402 (b) shall apply
to all cases of tenancies from year to year, tenancies by
the month and by the week. In case of tenancies from
year to year, a notice in writing shall be given three