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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 8B-2 Notice of pending dispossession.">
  <section prefix="§" num="8B-2" heading="Notice of pending dispossession.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Notice required.">Whenever a judgment is entered in favor of a foreclosure purchaser for possession of the residential property purchased and the Court has issued a writ of possession, the foreclosure purchaser shall notify any occupant of the property of the date on which the writ of possession is first scheduled to be executed by the Sheriff.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="How given.">The notice shall be:<para num="(1)">mailed both by first-class mail with certificate of mailing at least 14 days before the first scheduled date of execution; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">posted on the premises at least 7 days before the first scheduled date of execution.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Contents.">The notice shall:<para num="(1)">state the Circuit Court Writ of Possession Case Number, the occupant’s name, if known, the phrase “or current occupant”, and the address of the property;</para>
      <para num="(2)">specify the date on which the eviction is first scheduled to be executed;</para>
      <para num="(3)">state that the eviction will be executed on that date unless the occupant moves out and delivers control of the property to the foreclosure purchaser;</para>
      <para num="(4)">prominently warn the occupant that any personal property left on the foreclosed property will be considered abandoned and may be disposed of on execution of the writ of possession; and</para>
      <para num="(5)">state that it is the final notice of the date of the eviction, even if the eviction date is postponed by the Sheriff or the court.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 08-041</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-458</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
