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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="10-801" title_number="10" title_name="Sales of Property" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Home builder” means a person that undertakes to erect or otherwise construct a new home.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Minimum visitability features” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A ground level entrance:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>That has a width of 36 or more inches;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>That is accessible from the outside of the new home or an attached garage; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>In which the threshold of the entrance is no more than 1.5 inches higher than the interior floor and the exterior landing; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A circulation route from the ground level entrance to an unattached garage, parking space, or public right–of–way that is free of any curbs, steps, landings, obstacles, or other vertical changes in level that are more than 1.5 inches.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“New home” means a newly constructed single–family dwelling unit.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“New home” does not include:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>A custom home as defined in § 10–501 of this title; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A mobile home as defined in § 8A–101 of this article.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A new home that is located above another new home;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An attached new home;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A new home:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>That does not have a garage; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>In which the slope between the finished ground level at all unit entrances to the nearest point along a property line that borders a public right–of–way is greater than 10%; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A new home in which compliance with the design flood elevation restrictions will cause:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The finished floor to be more than 30 inches above the finished ground level at all unit entrances; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The slope between the finished floor at all unit entrances to the nearest point along a property line that borders a public right–of–way to be greater than 10%.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This section applies only to a home builder that constructs 11 or more new homes in a subdivision that contains 11 or more new homes.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, at the time of offering new homes in a subdivision for sale, a home builder shall offer minimum visitability features as an option for purchase.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The offer of minimum visitability features shall be accompanied by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A point of sale document that describes the minimum visitability features; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A generic drawing or photograph that shows the minimum visitability features and the lots and new home types that are conducive to the minimum visitability features that could be constructed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
