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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 10-2 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="10-2" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">The following words have the meanings indicated unless their context requires otherwise.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Commissioner.">“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Development.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Condominium; condominium regime.">“Condominium” and “condominium regime” mean property established as a condominium regime under &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="grp"&gt;Title 11 of the State Real Property Article&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Condominium unit; unit.">
      <para num="(1)">“Condominium unit” and “unit” mean a 3-dimensional space identified as such in the declaration and on the condominium plat the boundaries of which are established in accordance with Title 11 of the State Real Property.</para>
      <para num="(2)">A unit may include 2 or more non-contiguous spaces.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Conversion.">“Conversion” means the subjection of a property which was previously rental facility to a condominium regime.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Designated household.">“Designated household” shall include a household with a senior citizen who:<para num="(1)">is at least 60 years old on the date the conversion notice is given, as required by § 11-102.1 of the State Real Property; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">has lived in the household at least 12 months preceding the giving of the notice.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Developer.">“Developer” means any person who subjects his/her property to a condominium regime.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Landlord.">“Landlord” means:<para num="(1)">the owner, the owner’s agent, lessor, or sublessor of the dwelling unit or the property of which it is a part; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">in addition, any person authorized to exercise any aspect of the management of the premises except those persons engaged solely in custodial and maintenance functions.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(i)" />
    <para num="(j)" heading="Real Property Article.">“Real Property Article” means the &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="grp"&gt;Real Property Article, Annotated Code of Maryland&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Rental facility.">“Rental facility”:<para num="(1)">means any structure, or combination of related structures and appurtenances, operated as a single entity, containing 5 or more dwelling units, which the operator thereof provides for; but</para>
      <para num="(2)">may not be construed to mean:<para num="(i)">any transient facility such as boarding houses, tourist homes, inns, motels, hotels, hospitals, medical facilities, or school dormitories; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any facilities operated for religious or eleemosynary purposes.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 13, §68</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 82-777</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-124</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">For the Code-wide standard definition of “person”, see &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;City General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107"&gt;§ 1-107&lt;/cite&gt;.</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
