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1418                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 334

AN ACT concerning

Landlord and Tenant - Holdover Tenant

FOR the purpose of repealing provisions entitling a landlord
to recover certain damages from a holdover tenant or
someone holding under him in a summary ejectment
proceeding; repealing provisions limiting the maximum
amount of damages recoverable and defining the
recoverable damages; repealing provisions requiring a
landlord to give holdover tenant written notice of
damage liability: providing that a landlord nay recover
all damages from a holdover tenant or someone holding
under him; setting a minimum amount of recovery;
providing that suit for damage may be brought
separately or with action to evict and remove tenant
from the leased premises; and providing that the damage
remedy is not in limitation of any other remedies the
landlord nay have against a holdover tenant.

BY repealing

Article - Real Property
Section 8-102(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Real Property
Section 8-402 (a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 8-402 (a) of Article - Real
Property, of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended, or
enacted to read as follows:

Article - Real Property

8-402.

(A) (1) A TENANT UNDER ANY LEASE OR SOMEONE HOLDING
ORDER HIM, WHO SHALL UNLAWFULLY HOLD OVER BEYOND THE
TERMINATION OF THE LEASE, SHALL BE LIABLE TO THE LANDLORD
FOR THE ACTUAL DAMAGES CAUSED BY THE HOLDING OVER.

(2) THE DAMAGES AWARDED TO A LANDLORD AGAINST
THE TENANT OR SOMEONE HOLDING ORDER HIM, MAY NOT BE LESS
THAN THE APPORTIONED RENT FOR THE PERIOD OF HOLDOVER AT THE
RATE UNDER THE LEASE.