BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                              659

MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article — Real Property

8-211.1.

(a)    Notwithstanding any provision of law or any
agreement, whether written or oral, if a lessor fails to
remove any and all lead—based paint from any interior,
exterior, or other surface that is easily accessible to a
child of a residential [premise] PREMISES within 20 days
after notice that lead—based paint is present on the
surfaces of the residence, the lessee may deposit his rent
in an escrow account with the clerk of the District Court
for the district in which the premises are located.

8-402.

(b)     (4) (i) The provisions of § 8-402 (b) shall
apply to all cases of tenancies from year to year, tenancies
of the month and by the week. In case of tenancies from
year to year (including tobacco farm tenancies) , notice in
writing shall be given three months before the expiration of
the current year of the tenancy, except that in case of all
other farm tenancies, the notice shall be given six months
before the expiration of the current year of the tenancy;
and in monthly or weekly tenancies, a notice in writing of
one month or one week, as the case may be, shall be so
given; and the same proceeding shall apply, so far as may
be, to cases of forcible entry and detainer.

(ii) This [subsection] PARAGRAPH (4), so
far as it relates to notices, does not apply in Baltimore
City.

(iii) In Montgomery County, except in the
case of single family dwellings, the notice by the landlord
shall be two months in the case of residential tenancies
with a term of at least month to month but less than from
year to year.

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

Approved April 3, 1971

CHAPTER 28
(Senate Bill 769)
AN ACT concerning

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