Ch. 488

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - Real Property

Section 8-211(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Real Property

Section 8-211(j) and (m)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY adding to

The Public Local Laws of Baltimore City
Section 9.9(f)(8)

Article 4 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1979 Edition and 1983 Supplement, as amended)

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

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

4-401.

Except as provided in § 4-402 of this subtitle, and subject
to the venue provisions of Title 6 of this article, the District
Court has exclusive original civil jurisdiction in:

(7) A petition of injunction filed by:

(I)   [a] A county or municipality including
Baltimore City for the enforcement of its health, housing, fire,
building, electric, plumbing, animal control, and zoning codes;
OR

(II)  A TENANT IN AN ACTION UNDER SECTION 8-211
OF THE REAL PROPERTY ARTICLE OR A LOCAL RENT ESCROW LAW;

Article - Real Property

8-211.

(a) The purpose of this section is to provide tenants with
a mechanism for encouraging the repair of serious and dangerous
defects which exist within or as part of any residential dwelling
unit, or upon the property used in common of which the dwelling
unit forms a part. The defects sought to be reached by this
section are those which present a substantial and serious threat

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