3236                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 714

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article - Tax - Property
Section 14-849 through 14-853
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (S.B. 1) of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1985)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Tax - Property

Section 14-845

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (S.B. 1) of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1985)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 81 - Revenue and Taxes

[117.

Whenever the mayor and city council of Baltimore has become
the purchaser of any property in the City of Baltimore at a tax
sale, the said city is hereby empowered to institute a proceeding
to foreclose the right of redemption of such property under the
provisions of §§ 117 to 121, inclusive. None of the provisions
of §§ 117 to 121, inclusive, shall affect the right of the said
city to proceed under the other provisions of this subtitle, the
procedure hereinafter set forth being intended to be an
alternative procedure to be adopted at the option of the mayor
and city council- of Baltimore, acting through the city
comptroller for the time being, when the said city has become the
purchaser of property at tax sales.]

117.

A COURT IN THE STATE MAY NOT REOPEN A JUDGMENT RENDERED IN A
FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING INSTITUTED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
OF BALTIMORE CITY UNDER FORMER ARTICLE 81, §§ 117 THROUGH 121 OF
THE CODE UNLESS AN APPLICATION TO REOPEN THE JUDGMENT IS FILED ON
OR BEFORE JUNE 30, 1987. AFTER JUNE 30, 1987, ANY JUDGMENT
RENDERED UNDER FORMER ARTICLE 81, §§ 117 THROUGH 121 OF THE CODE
SHALL BE DEEMED CONCLUSIVELY TO HAVE BEEN RATIFIED BY ALL PERSONS
WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE GROUNDS TO OBJECT TO THE JUDGMENT.

[118.