BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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CHAPTER 770

(House Bill 1952)

AN ACT concerning

Notice of Claims against Political Subdivisions

FOR the purpose of revising, restating, and recodifying
certain provisions relating to certain claims against
certain political subdivisions; repealing the name of
Article 57; providing that in Prince George's County
the claim shall be presented to a certain county
official; and clarifying language.

BY repealing

Article 57 — Limitations of Actions

Section 18

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 5-306

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1977 Supplement)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 57 - Limitations of Actions

[18.

(a) No action shall be maintained and no claims shall
be allowed against any municipal corporation or against any
county or Baltimore City for unliquidated damages for any
injury or damage to person or property unless within 180
days after the injury or damage was sustained, written
notice setting forth the time, place or cause of the alleged
damage, loss, injury or death shall be presented either in
person or by registered mail by the claimant, his agent or
attorney, or in the case of death, by his executor or
administrator, to the county commissioners, county council,
the corporate authorities of the municipal corporation or
the city solicitor of Baltimore City, as the case may be.
In Montgomery County and Howard County, written notice shall
be presented to the county executive.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of (a) above, the
court may, upon motion and for good cause shown, entertain
the suit even though the required notice was not given,