§ 21-12 Condemnation awards paid into Court.

Whenever any property shall have been condemned in any form or proceeding for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and in consequence of infancy, insanity or absence from the City of any person or persons entitled to receive any money awarded in any such proceedings, conflicting claims, refusal to accept, or any other cause, such money cannot be safely and reasonably paid to any person or persons, it shall be lawful for the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to file a bill or petition in any Court of Equity in the City or county where the property is condemned, or any portion thereof, lies, and whenever such Court shall be satisfied that, for any of the reasons aforesaid, that said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore should be permitted to pay the said money into such Court, it shall pass such decree as it shall deem proper, and the payment of any money into Court under any such decree or order shall be considered in all respects equivalent to a tender thereof to any person or persons entitled to such money, and who may be made a party or parties to such proceeding, and upon making such payment, the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be thereby released from all further liability for the money awarded as aforesaid to any person or persons who may be made a party or parties to such proceeding as aforesaid, and in all cases when one or more persons is or are entitled to an estate for life or years, or an estate tail fee simple, conditional, base or qualified fee, or any other particular, limited or conditional estate in property condemned as aforesaid, and any person or persons is or are entitled to a remainder or remainders, vested or contingent, or an executory devise or devises, or any other interest, vested or contingent, in the same property, if all persons in being who would be entitled to the said property if the contingency had happened at the date of the filing of the aforesaid bill or petition, shall be made parties to such proceeding, the payment into Court of the money awarded for such property shall bind all persons, whether in being or not, who claim or may claim any interest in the said property under any of the parties to the said cause, or under any person from whom any of the parties thereto claim or from or under or by the original deed or will by which such particular, limited or conditional estates with remainders or executory devises were created, and the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall, upon making such payment, be thereby released from all further liability for the money awarded as aforesaid.