HARRY HUGHES, Governor

799

FOR the purpose of decreasing the penalty that a landlord
can charge a week to week tenant for late payment of
rent from $5 to $3, and repealing the limitation on the
maximum amount of late charges that a landlord can
collect per month from a tenant for late payment of
rent changing the amount of the penalty for the late
payment of rent that may be contained in a lease under
which rent is paid in weekly rental installments; and
placing a maximum limitation on the amount of the late
penalties that may be charged each month for rent paid
under a lease providing for weekly rental installments.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Real Property
Section 8-208(a)(3)
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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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.

(a) A lease may not contain any of the following
provisions:

(3) A provision providing for a penalty for the
late payment of rent in excess of 5% of the amount of rent
due for the rental period for which the payment was
delinquent. In the case of leases under which the rent is
paid in weekly rental installments a penalty of [$5] $3 may
be charged for the late payment of rent; HOWEVER, THESE LATE
PENALTIES FOR RENT PAID UNDER A LEASE PROVIDING FOR WEEKLY
RENTAL INSTALLMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE, IN THE AGGREGATE, NO
MORE THAN $12 PER MONTH. [However, such late penalties
shall constitute, In the aggregate, no more than $10 per
month.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 8, 1980.

CHAPTER 66
(House Bill 338)
AN ACT concerning