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MONTGOMERY COUNTY

by law has authority to enact a law on the same subjects
as covered by the various Articles and sections of this
Chapter. If any such incorporated town, village, or
other municipality shall adopt this Chapter or any
Article of it and request the County to enforce the
provisions thereof within its corporate limits, the
County shall thereafter administer and enforce the same
within such incorporated town, village, or municipality.

b. The system of rent control established
by this Article shall supersede or take precedence over,
as the case may be, all rent control measures enacted by
or to be enacted by the State of Maryland or the
Government of the United States, if permissable to do so.
However, any legislation enacted by the State of Maryland
or the Government of the United States subsequent to the
enactment of this system of rent control shall be
reviewed by the Commission on Landlord-Tenant Affairs and
appropriate recommendations made to the County Council.

29-77. Application of rent control procedures to all
covered dwelling units.

The procedures and types of rent increases,
meaning basic rent increases and extraordinary rent
increases, delineated in Section 29—51, except as
specifically provided otherwise in this Article, apply to
those dwelling units, groups, tenancies, and lease
agreements dealt with in Sections 29-52, 29-53, 29-54,
and 29—58. Furthermore, all the attendant procedures,
notice requirements, standards, and time periods
similarly apply to Sections 29-52, 29—53, 29-54, and
29-58, including Sections 29-57, 29-59, 29-60, 29-61,
29-62, 29-63, 29-64, 29-65, 29-66, 29-67, and 29-68.

Section 2. Severability.

The provisions of this Act are severable, and
if any provision, sentence, clause, section or part
thereof is held illegal, invalid, or unconstitutional, or
inapplicable to any person or circumstances, such
illegality, invalidity, unconstitutionality, or
inapplicability shall not affect or impair any of the
remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections, or
parts of the Act or their application to other persons or
circumstances. It is hereby declared to be the
legislative intent that this Act would have been adopted
if such illegal, invalid or unconstitutional provision,
sentence, clause, section or part had not been included
therein, and if the person or circumstances to which the
Act or any part thereof is inapplicable and had been
specifically exempted therefrom.

Section 3. Effective date.