Ch. 582

1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 582
(House Bill 673)

AN ACT concerning

Mobile Home Parks - Rights of Residents - Duties of Park Owners

FOR the purpose of requiring that an offer by a mobile home park owner to renew a
certain rental agreement be made within a certain time in a certain manner;
extending a certain required notice period where there is a change in land use;
requiring certain persons who obtain title to a mobile home to take certain actions
within a certain time; requiring a mobile home park owner to file a certain plan
when there is a change in land use; defining a certain term; making stylistic changes;
and generally relating to the rights of tenants of mobile home parks and the duties
of mobile home park owners.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Real Property
Section 8A-101(j) and 8A-202
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1988 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Real Property
Section 8A-1201 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 12. Termination of Tenancy

- Change in Land Use"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1988 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

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

Article - Real Property

8A-101.                                                                                 

(j) (1) "Resident" means a mobile home owner who leases or rents a site for
residential use and resides in a mobile home park.

(2) "RESIDENT" INCLUDES A PERSON WHO MAINTAINS A PERMANENT
RESIDENCE WITH THE MOBILE HOME OWNER, AND WHO OBTAINS TITLE TO THE
MOBILE HOME AFTER THE DEATH OF THE OWNER UNDER THE TERMS OF A WILL OR
BY OPERATION OF LAW.

8A-202.

(a) A park owner shall offer all current and prospective year-round residents a
rental agreement for a period of not less than 1 year.

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