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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="8-405" title_number="8" title_name="Landlord and Tenant" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Landlord's Remedies Other Than Distraint">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If a tenant under a lease dies intestate and without next of kin, the landlord may bring an action for summary ejectment under § 8–401 of this subtitle against the tenant named in the lease notwithstanding the tenant’s death.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The landlord shall certify to the court in the written complaint required under § 8–401(b)(1) of this subtitle that, to the best of the landlord’s knowledge, the tenant is deceased, intestate, and without next of kin.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Property or income from property that a landlord holds for a deceased, intestate tenant without next of kin shall be presumed abandoned in accordance with Title 17 of the Commercial Law Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
