HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                      1395

CHAPTER 359

(Senate Bill 676)

AN ACT concerning

Real Property - Condominiums - Limited Common Elements

FOR the purpose of authorizing, under certain circumstances,
assessments for maintenance expenses of limited common
elements to condominium unit owners who are given exclusive
use of those elements.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Real Property

Section ll-110(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

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

Article - Real Property

11-110.

(b) (1) Funds for the payment of current common expenses
and for the creation of reserves for the payment of future common
expenses shall be obtained by assessments against the unit owners
in proportion to their percentage interests in common expenses
and common profits.

(2) (i) Where provided in the declaration or the
bylaws, charges for utility services may be assessed and
collected on the basis of usage rather than on the basis of
percentage interests.

(II) IF PERMITTED PROVIDED BY THE DECLARATION
OR BYLAWS, ASSESSMENTS FOR EXPENSES RELATED TO MAINTENANCE OF THE
CONDOMINIUM LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS MAY BE CHARGED TO THE UNIT
OWNER OR OWNERS WHO ARE GIVEN THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE
LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS.

[(ii)] (III) Assessments for charges under
[subparagraph (i) of] this paragraph may be enforced in the same
manner as assessments for common expenses.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 13, 1986.