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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 18.15.02.03" title_num="18" subtitle_num="15" chapter_num="02" heading="Duties and Responsibilities.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Department's duties and responsibilities respecting the registration of ground rents are ministerial. In registering a ground rent or refusing to register a ground rent pursuant to this chapter, the Department does not:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Determine that a ground rent does or does not exist;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Determine that a lot does or does not exist;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Determine that information contained in a registration form is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Create a presumption that the information contained in a registration form is correct or incorrect, in whole or in part.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The responsibility for the legal effectiveness of a ground rent registration rests with the ground lease holder. The Department bears no responsibility for effectiveness.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The Department and its employees and agents are immune from any liability resulting from inaccurate, incomplete, or illegible information submitted in a ground rent registration form.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>