§ 8-111. Lease renewals and demands for back rent
West's Annotated Code of MarylandReal Property
MD Code, Real Property, § 8-111
§ 8-111. Lease renewals and demands for back rent
If a tenant named in a lease or an assignee of a lease applies to the tenant's landlord for a renewal under a covenant in the lease giving the tenant the right to renewal, and if the tenant cannot produce vouchers or satisfactory evidence showing payment of rent accrued for three years next preceding the tenant's demand and application, the landlord, before executing the renewal of the lease or causing it to be executed, is entitled to demand and recover not more than three years' back rent, in addition to any renewal fine that may be provided for in the lease. The tenant may plead this section in bar of the recovery of any larger amount of rent.
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Added by Acts 1974, c. 12, § 2, eff. July 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1999, c. 219, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1999; Acts 2000, c. 61, § 1, eff. April 25, 2000.
Formerly Art. 21, § 8-206.
MD Code, Real Property, § 8-111, MD REAL PROP § 8-111
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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