MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            3247

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

CHAPTER 728
(House Bill 879)

AN ACT concerning

Landlord and Tenant - Rent Escrow

FOR the purpose of requiring that a tenant's payment of
rent be held in escrow in certain situations and
providing a remedy if he fails to pay.

BY adding to

Article — Real Property

Section 8-403

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 8—403 be and it is hereby
added to Article — Real Property, of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement) to read as
follows:

Article — Real Property

8-403.

IF THE DISTRICT COURT IN ANY CASE BROUGHT PURSUANT
TO § 8-401 OR § 8-402 ORDERS AN ADJOURNMENT OF THE TRIAL
FOR A LONGER PERIOD THAN PROVIDED FOR IN THE SECTION
UNDER WHICH THE CASE HAS BEEN INSTITUTED, THE TENANT OR
ANYONE HOLDING UNDER HIM SHALL PAY ALL RENTS DUE AND AS
THEY COME DUE INTO THE DISTRICT COURT. HOWEVER, THE
COURT MAY ORDER THE TENANT TO PAY RENTS DUE AND AS COME
DUE INTO AN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY OF ANY COUNTY WHICH IS
EMPOWERED BY LOCAL LAW TO HOLD RENTS IN ESCROW PENDING
INVESTIGATION AND DISPOSITION OF COMPLAINTS BY TENANTS;
THE COURT ALSO MAY REFER THAT CASE TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENCY FOR INVESTIGATION AND [[DISPOSITION]] REPORT TO
THE COURT. A TENANT SHALL PAY INTO THE COURT THE AMOUNT
OF RENT DUE ON OR BEFORE THE DATE TO WHICH THE TRIAL IS