Ch. 491                                           LAWS OF MARYLAND

first day of the payroll period, and to facilitate the making of
deductions it may modify the deduction required of any member by
such an amount as shall not exceed one tenth of one per centum of
the annual compensation upon the basis of which such deduction is
made.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved May 19, 1989.

CHAPTER 491
(Senate Bill 567)

AN ACT concerning

Condominiums and Homeowners Associations -
Recorded Covenants and Restrictions, Bylaws, Rules and
Restrictions, and Declarations - Family Day Care Homes

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain provisions in the
declaration, bylaws, or rules of a condominium from being
construed to prohibit the providing of certain family day

care services by a unit owner or certain tenants,

prohibiting the council of unit owners of board of directors
of a condominium from discriminating against certain units
in the enforcement of the declaration, bylaws, or rules,
prohibiting certain provisions in the declaration, recorded
covenants and restrictions, bylaws, or rules of a homeowners
association from being construed to prohibit the providing
of certain family day care services by a lot owner or
certain tenants; prohibiting a homeowners association from
discriminating against certain lots in the enforcement of

the declaration, recorded covenants and restrictions,

bylaws, or rules; and generally relating to family day care
homes in condominiums and homeowners associations recorded
covenants and restrictions, bylaws, rules and restrictions,
and declarations of certain homeowners associations or
condominiums from being construed to prohibit or restrict
family day care homes and certain uses of common areas;
providing that the operation of a family day care home is a

residential activity; providing that a homeowners

association or condominium may prohibit or regulate family
day care homes under certain circumstances; providing for
certain exceptions to this Act; requiring certain
notification of homeowners associations or condominiums by
day care providers under certain circumstances; allowing
homeowners associations and condominiums to require day care

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