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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 8.1-12 Judgment.">
  <section prefix="§" num="8.1-12" heading="Judgment.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope.">This section only applies if the Court finds, after a hearing or on the pleadings and affidavits, that:<para num="(1)">the Department sent notice and a copy of the complaint to each interested party in accordance with this subtitle;</para>
      <para num="(2)">service of process and other notice requirements have been met; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">the information set forth in the complaint is accurate.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="In general.">If the Court has made the findings required by subsection (a) of this section, the Court shall:<para num="(1)">enter a judgment finding that:<para num="(i)">proper notice has been provided to all interested parties; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the real property is a vacant lot or an improved property cited as vacant and unsafe or unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice; and</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">order that the ownership of the real property is transferred to the Mayor and City Council pursuant to &lt;cite data-path="|28|§8.1-13"&gt;§ 8.1-13 {“Title; Recordation”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Effect of judgment.">A judgment in an action under this subtitle is binding and conclusive, regardless of legal disability, on:<para num="(1)">all persons, known and unknown, who were parties to the action and who had a claim to the property, whether present or future, vested or contingent, legal or equitable, or several or undivided; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">all persons who were not parties to the action and had a claim to the property that was not recorded at the time that the action was commenced.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-393</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
