3242                                   COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

Chapter 28

AN ACT to amend Chapter 11, title "Consumer Protection,"
of the Montgomery County Code 1972, as amended, by
adding a new Section 11-7A, title "Enforcement of
Summonses and Subpoenas," to follow immediately
after Section 7 thereof, to provide for the
enforcement of summonses and subpoenas issued by the
Montgomery County Office of Consumer Affairs to
compel the attendance of witnesses or the production
of documents, papers, books, records or other
evidence in any matter over which the consumer
protection law provides; to authorize the County to
institute litigation in a court of competent
jurisdiction to enforce such subpoenas or summonses;
to provide that a court of competent jurisdiction
may require the compliance with summonses or
subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses or
the production of documents; to provide that a court
may require the transfer of documents to the Court;
to provide that a court may prohibit the destruction
of documents pending conclusion of a lawful
investigation by the Montgomery County Office of
Consumer Affairs; to provide that disobedience of a
final court order shall be punishable as a contempt
of court and to declare that an emergency exists and
that this Act shall take effect on the date it
becomes law.

Chapter 29

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Article
VI, title "Rent Controls," of Chapter 29, title
"Landlord-Tenant Relations", of the Montgomery
County Code 1972, as amended; to update the
legislative findings and to state new legislative
intent with respect to the rent control provisions
of Montgomery County; to provide that this Act shall
be applied prospectively; to provide a system of
vacancy decontrol for rental units affected by the
rent control law in Montgomery County under
specified circumstances; to require monthly reports
of rents on decontrolled units; to exempt from the
provisions of the rent control law certain new units
and rehabilitated dwelling units coming onto the
rental market; to provide a termination data for the
rent control of certain one-family dwellings,
detached dwellings, and townhouses; to exempt from
the system of rent control dwelling units which are
part of multi—family housing projects owned and
operated by the Montgomery County Housing
Opportunities Commission; to amend the definition
provisions in Article VI, Chapter 29, by modifying
the definition of "holdover tenant" and certain
other existing definitions and by adding certain new