HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Article - Real Property
Title 8A. Mobile Home Parks
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Real Property
Title 8A. Mobile Home Parks
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Real Property

8-208.1.

(a) [(1) Definitions:

(i) "Mobile home" is a home including
house trailer but excluding camping trailer, travel trailer,
truck camper, and motor home, which is a movable or portable
unit, designed and constructed to be towed on its own frame
and wheels and connected to utilities for year-round
occupancy. The term includes: (1) a unit containing parts
that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when towed and
is expandable to provide additional cubic capacity; and (2)
a unit composed of two or more separately towable components
designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of
being again separated into the components for repeated
towing.

(ii) "Landlord" includes a mobile home
park owner or operator.

(iii) "Tenant" includes mobile home
dweller.

(2)] No landlord shall evict a tenant of any
residential property or arbitrarily increase the rent or
decrease the services to which the tenant has been entitled
for any of the following reasons:

(1)  Solely because the tenant or his agent has
filed a written complaint, or complaints, with the landlord
or with any public agency or agencies against the landlord;
or

(2)  Solely because the tenant or his agent has
filed a law suit, or law suits, against the landlord; or

(3)  Solely because the tenant is a member or
organizer of any tenants' organization.