Sec. 12-20. Recordation of racial, etc., restrictive covenants.

All certified copies of instruments affecting title to every interest in land, recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county, prepared by the clerk shall have the following certificate affixed thereto:

NOTICE

Any restrictive covenant which purports to restrict or affect, on the basis of race, color, religious creed or national origin, the title, occupancy or transfer of land, whether heretofore or hereafter included in an instrument affecting the title to real or leasehold property, is declared to be null, void and of no effect, and contrary to the public policy of this state, as well as contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. Chapter 324, Laws of Maryland 1971.*