Ch. 408                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND

(B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBTITLE,
AN EVICTING OFFICER MAY DELAY IMPLEMENTATION OF A WARRANT FOR
REPOSSESSION OF LEASED PREMISES BECAUSE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

8-401.

(d) (1) SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATION IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS
SUBTITLE, IF [If] judgment is given in favor of the landlord, and
the tenant fails to comply with the requirements of the order
within two days, the court shall, at any time after the
expiration of the two days, issue its warrant, directed to any
official of the county entitled to serve process, ordering him to
cause the landlord to have again and repossess the property by
putting him (or his duly qualified agent or attorney for his
benefit) in possession thereof, and for that purpose to remove
from the property, by force if necessary, all the furniture,
implements, tools, goods, effects or other chattels of every
description whatsoever belonging to the tenant, or to any person
claiming or holding by or under said tenant. If the landlord
does not order a warrant of restitution within sixty days from
the date of judgment or from the expiration date of any stay of
execution, whichever shall be the later, the judgment for
possession shall be stricken.

(2) (I) THE ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE OF ANY DISTRICT MAY
STAY THE EXECUTION OF A WARRANT OF RESTITUTION, FROM DAY TO DAY,
IN THE EVENT OF EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS. THE JUDGE SHALL
PROMPTLY DIRECT RESCHEDULING OF THE EXECUTION OF THE WARRANT OF
RESTITUTION TO THE FIRST DAY OF NONEXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS.

(II) WHEN A STAY HAS BEEN GRANTED UNDER THIS
PARAGRAPH, THE EXECUTION OF THE WARRANT OF RESTITUTION FOR WHICH
THE STAY HAS SEEN GRANTED SHALL BE GIVEN PRIORITY WHEN THE
EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS CEASE.                                                           

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1987.

Approved May 14, 1987.

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