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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 669

CHAPTER 669

(Senate Bill 435)

AN ACT concerning

Real Property - Holding Over - Notice

FOR the purpose of requiring that a bill for the ground rent
currently due be sent to a tenant at the tenant's last known
address before the landlord may reenter and eject for the
recovery of property.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Real Property

Section 8-402.2(a)

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

8-402.2.

(a) In all cases between landlord and tenant relating to 99
year ground leases renewable forever, where one-half year's
ground rent shall be in arrear and the landlord has the lawful
right to reenter for the nonpayment thereof, the landlord may[,
without any formal demand or reentry,] serve, NO LESS THAN 30
DAYS AFTER SENDING TO THE TENANT BY CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN
RECEIPT REQUESTED, AT THE TENANT'S LAST KNOWN ADDRESS A BILL FOR
THE GROUND RENT DUE, a copy of a declaration in ejectment for the
recovery of the property; if the declaration cannot be legally
served, or no tenant be in actual possession of the property,
then he shall affix it upon the door of any demised messuage, or
if the action of ejectment shall not be for the recovery of any
messuage, then upon some notorious place of the property
described in the declaration in ejectment; such affixing shall be
deemed legal service thereof, which service or affixing of such
declaration in ejectment shall stand in the place and stead of a
demand and reentry.

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

Approved May 27, 1986.