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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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CHAPTER 161
(Senate Bill 773)
AN ACT concerning
Landlord and Tenant - Rent Escrow Account
FOR the purpose of clarifying the law to allow the District Court
to order certain tenants to pay rents into the District
Court registry in an escrow account or into the registry of
an escrow account of the clerk of the circuit court or
certain other agencies; clarifying language; providing that
the depository court clerk or agency shall certify the
status of the escrow account; and generally relating to rent
escrow accounts in certain landlord and tenant actions.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Real Property
Section 8-118
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1981 Replacement Volume and 1982 Supplement)
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Real Property
8-118.
(a) In an action under § 8-401, § 8-402, or § 8-402.1 of
this article in which a party prays a jury trial, THE DISTRICT
COURT SHALL ENTER AN ORDER DIRECTING the tenant or anyone holding
under the tenant [shall] TO pay all accrued and unpaid rents, and
all rents due and as they come due during the pendency of the
action, as prescribed in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) [The tenant shall pay rents] THE DISTRICT COURT SHALL
ORDER THAT THE RENTS BE PAID into the registry of an escrow
account of:
(1) The clerk of the [circuit] DISTRICT court [or
the appropriate court of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City]; or
(2) If directed by the [clerk] DISTRICT COURT, an
administrative agency of the county which is empowered by local
law to hold rents in escrow pending investigation and disposition
of complaints by tenants.
(c) In an action under § 8-401, § 8-402, or § 8-402.1 of
this article, if the tenant or anyone holding under the tenant
fails to pay rent accrued or as it comes due [within this period]
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