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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 684

SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety and having been passed by a yea and nay vote
supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 685

(House Bill 1303)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore City - Tenant's Right to Redeem Leased Premises

FOR the purpose of providing that in an action of summary
ejectment a tenant may not under certain circumstances
redeem leased premises in Baltimore City after a
certain number of judgments within a certain period
giving the landlord restitution in summary ejectment
actions for failure to pay rent; providing for the
availability of a certain defense for a tenant under
certain circumstances; correcting an error in language;
and generally relating to a tenant's redemption of
leased premises prior to eviction in Baltimore City.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Baltimore City
Section 9-5

Article 4 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1976 Edition and 1979 Supplement, as amended)
(1979 Edition, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Article 4 - Baltimore City

9-5.

(A) If, at the trial aforesaid, the Judge shall be
satisfied the interest of justice will be better served by
an adjournment, he may adjourn the trial for a period not
exceeding seven days, except by consent of the parties, and
if at said trial or due adjournment, as aforesaid, it shall
[appeal] APPEAR to the satisfaction of the Judge before whom
said complaint has been tried as aforesaid, that the rent or