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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="8-805" title_number="8" title_name="Landlord and Tenant" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Residential Ground Leases">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Irredeemable ground rent” means a ground rent created under a ground lease executed before April 9, 1884, that does not contain a provision allowing the leasehold tenant to redeem the ground rent.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Redeemable ground rent” means a ground rent that may be redeemed in accordance with this section or redeemed or extinguished in accordance with § 8–804(f) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An irredeemable ground rent shall be converted to, and become, a redeemable ground rent, unless within the times specified in subsection (e) of this section, a notice of intention to preserve irredeemability is recorded among the land records of the county where the property is located and filed with the Department.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The conversion of an irredeemable ground rent to a redeemable ground rent occurs on the day following the end of the period in which the notice may be recorded among the land records of the county where the property is located or filed with the Department.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A disability or lack of knowledge of any kind does not prevent the conversion of an irredeemable ground rent to a redeemable ground rent if no notice of intention to preserve irredeemability is filed within the times specified in subsection (e) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any ground lease holder of an irredeemable ground rent may record a notice of intention to preserve irredeemability among the land records of the county where the land is located.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The notice may be recorded by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The person claiming to be the ground lease holder; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the ground lease holder is under a disability or otherwise unable to assert a claim on the ground lease holder’s own behalf, any other person acting on the ground lease holder’s behalf.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To be effective and to be entitled to be recorded, the notice shall be executed by the ground lease holder, acknowledged before a notary public, and contain substantially the following information:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An accurate description of the leasehold interest affected by the notice, including, if known, the property improvement address;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The name of every ground lease holder of an irredeemable ground rent;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The name of every leasehold tenant as of the time the notice is filed according to the land records or the records of the Department;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The recording reference of the ground lease;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The recording reference of every leasehold tenant’s leasehold deed, as of the time the notice is filed, according to the land records or the records of the Department;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>The recording reference of every irredeemable ground rent ground lease holder’s deed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>The block number for the leasehold interest if the property is located in Baltimore City.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A notice that substantially meets the requirements of this section shall be accepted for recording among the land records on payment of the same fees as are charged for the recording of deeds.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The filing of a notice is exempt from the imposition of a State or local excise tax.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The notice shall be indexed as “Notice of Intention to Preserve Irredeemability”:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>In the grantee indices of deeds under the name of every ground lease holder of an irredeemable ground rent;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>In the grantor indices of deeds under the name of every leasehold tenant as of the time the notice is filed according to the land records or the records of the Department; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>In the block index in Baltimore City.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To preserve the irredeemability of an irredeemable ground rent, a notice of intention to preserve shall be recorded on or before December 31, 2010.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a notice of intention to preserve is not recorded on or before December 31, 2010, the ground rent becomes a redeemable ground rent.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If a notice is recorded on or before December 31, 2010, the ground rent shall remain irredeemable for a period of 10 years from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2020, both inclusive.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The effectiveness of a filed notice to preserve irredeemability shall lapse on January 1, 2021, and the ground rent shall become a redeemable ground rent, unless:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>A renewal notice containing substantially the same information as the notice of intention to preserve irredeemability is recorded within 6 months before the expiration of the 10–year period set forth in paragraph (3) of this subsection; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The renewal notice is filed with the Department on or before April 1, 2023.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The effectiveness of any subsequently filed renewal notice shall lapse after the expiration of the applicable 10–year period and the ground rent shall become a redeemable ground rent, unless:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Further renewal notices are recorded within 6 months before the expiration of the applicable 10–year period; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Each renewal notice is filed with the Department within 3 months after the date of recordation in the land records.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A ground rent made redeemable in accordance with this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is redeemable at any time following the date of conversion of the irredeemable ground rent to a redeemable ground rent; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Shall be redeemable for a sum equal to the annual rent reserved multiplied by 16.66, which is capitalization at 6 percent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
