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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="11B-113" title_number="11B" title_name="Maryland Homeowners Association Act" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a homeowners association depository in the office of the clerk of the court in each county and the City of Baltimore.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Consistent with the duties of a clerk of a court as enumerated in § 2-201 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, the clerk of the court shall establish and thereafter maintain a depository for the purpose of making available to the public upon request the information to be deposited by homeowners associations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The depository shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Be established and maintained in each county and the City of Baltimore as a document file separate from the land records of the county or City;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Contain a record of the names of all homeowners associations for each county and the City of Baltimore;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Contain all disclosures deposited by a homeowners association; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Be available to the public for viewing and for obtaining copies during the regular business hours of the office of the clerk.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The clerk of the court is authorized to regulate the form and manner of documents deposited into the depository and to collect fees for a deposit.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The clerk of the court shall permit the deposit of copies of disclosures, however reproduced.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The clerk of the court may adopt regulations as necessary or desirable to implement the depository.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The State Court Administrator shall establish, so as to cover the reasonable and ordinary expenses of maintaining the depository, the amount of the fees that the clerk of the court may charge for deposits in the depository.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The clerk of the court shall maintain a depository index; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>All disclosures shall be filed under the name of the homeowners association.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Material contained in the depository may not be viewed as recordation under Title 3 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
