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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="8-212.1" title_number="8" title_name="Landlord and Tenant" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Residential Leases">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Active duty” has the meaning stated in § 9–901 of the State Government Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Change of assignment” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Permanent change of station orders;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Temporary duty orders for a period exceeding 90 days;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Orders requiring a person to move into quarters located on a military installation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A release from active duty, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Retirement;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Separation or discharge under honorable conditions; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Demobilization of an activated member of a reserve component who was serving on active duty orders for at least 180 consecutive days.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Reserve component” has the meaning stated in § 9–901 of the State Government Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, if an active service member or the active service member’s spouse enters into a residential lease of property and the active service member subsequently receives a change of assignment, before or after occupying the property, any liability of the active service member or the active service member’s spouse, for rent under the lease may not exceed:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any rent or lawful charges then due and payable plus 30 days’ rent after written notice and proof of the change of assignment is given to the landlord; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The cost of repairing damage to the premises caused by an act or omission of the tenant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
