Ch. 633

LAWS OF MARYLAND

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]
WHENEVER, IN A CASE THAT INVOLVES A 99-YEAR GROUND LEASE
RENEWABLE FOREVER, AT LEAST 6 MONTHS ground rent [shall be in
arrear] IS IN ARREARS and the landlord has the lawful right to
reenter for the nonpayment [thereof] OF THE RENT, the landlord
[may 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] MAY BRING AN ACTION
FOR POSSESSION of the property UNDER § 14-108.1 OF THIS ARTICLE;
[if the declaration cannot be legally served, or no tenant be] IF
THE TENANT CANNOT BE PERSONALLY SERVED OR THERE IS NO TENANT 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]
SERVICE BY POSTING NOTICE ON THE PROPERTY MAY BE MADE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE MARYLAND RULES. PERSONAL SERVICE OR POSTING
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MARYLAND RULES shall stand in the place
[and stead] of a demand and reentry.

[(b) If the circuit court as defined in Section l-101(b) of
the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article shall enter a verdict
for the landlord, he shall have judgment and execution in the
same manner as if the ground rent in arrear had been legally
demanded and a reentry made.]

[(c) If the tenant or other person claiming or deriving
under the lease, shall permit a judgment to be rendered against
him, and execution to be executed thereon, without paying the
ground rent and arrears, together with full costs, and without
proceeding for relief in equity within six calendar months after
the execution, the tenant and all other persons claiming and
deriving under the said lease shall be barred and foreclosed from
all relief or remedy in law or equity other than by appeal for
reversal of such judgment, and the landlord shall thenceforth
hold the property discharged from the lease.]

[(d) The](B) (1) BEFORE ENTRY OF A JUDGMENT THE landlord
shall give written notice [before the entry of a judgment to any]
OF THE PENDING ENTRY OF JUDGMENT TO EACH mortgagee of the lease,
or any part of the lease, [if the mortgagee] WHO BEFORE ENTRY OF
THE JUDGMENT has recorded in the land records of each county

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