WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 766

CHAPTER 766

(Senate Bill 422)

AN ACT concerning

Wicomico County - Private Service of Process Action for

Unpaid Rent Landlord and Tenant Failure to Pay Rent—

Service of Process
Wicomico County - Landlord and Tenant - Service of Process

FOR the purpose of allowing landlords in Wicomico County to
obtain personal service of process in an action against a
tenant for failure to pay rent; and generally relating to
landlords and tenants in Wicomico County authorizing a
summons in certain landlord and tenant actions in Wicomico
County to be served on a tenant by any person authorized
under the Maryland Rules to serve process; and generally
relating to service of process in certain landlord and
tenant actions in Wicomico County.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Real Property

Section 8-401(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Real Property

Section 8-401(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

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

Article - Real Property

8-401.

(a)  Whenever the tenant under any     lease of property,
express or implied, verbal or written, shall   fail to pay the rent
when due and payable, it shall be lawful for   the landlord to have
again and repossess the premises so rented.

(b)  (1) (1) Whenever any landlord shall desire to repossess
any premises to which he is entitled under the provisions of §
8-401(a), he or his duly qualified agent or attorney, shall make
his written complaint under oath or affirmation, before the

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