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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 224

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article — Real Property

8-402.

(b) (1) Where any interest in property shall be
leased for any definite term or at will, and the landlord
shall desire to repossess the property after the expiration
of the term for which it was leased and shall give notice in
writing one month before the expiration of the term or
determination of [said] THE will to the tenant or to the
person actually in possession of the property to remove from
the property at the end of the term, and if the tenant or
person in actual possession shall refuse to comply
[therewith], the landlord may make complaint [thereof] in
writing to the District Court of the county where the
property is located. The court shall [forthwith] issue its
summons to the tenant or person in possession that he [be
and] appear on a day stated in the summons before the court
to show cause (if any he have) why restitution of the
possession of the [said] estate [so] leased should not be
[forthwith] made to the landlord. Upon the failure of
either of the parties to appear before the court on the day
stated in the summons, the court [shall] MAY continue the
case to a day not less than six nor more than ten days after
[said] THE day [so] first stated and notify the parties of
[such] THE continuance.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 225

(Senate Bill 309)

AN ACT concerning

Landlord and Tenant — Failure to Pay Rent

FOR the purpose of providing for the procedure where a
landlord fails to order a warrant of restitution.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Real Property

Section 8-401(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1977 Supplement)