BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

1941

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Article 4 — Baltimore City

9-9A. LANDLORD'S NONCOMPLIANCE WITH LEASE.

(A)    IN ADDITION 10 THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 9-9, IN
AN ACTION FOR RECOVERY OF RENT OR FOR THE POSSESSION OF
LEASED PREMISES FOR NONPAYMENT OF RENT, OR IN AN ACTION
BROUGHT BY A TENANT PRAYING FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE FORMS OF
RELIEF ENUMERATED IN SECTION 9-9, THE TENANT MAY ASSERT AS A

DEFENSE OR AS THE BASIS FOR HIS DECLARATION AFFIRMATIVE

BELIEF, THAT THERE EXISTS ON THE LEASED PREMISES A CONDITION
WHICH CONSTITUTES A MATERIAL BREACH OF A LEASE PROVISION OR

WHICH CONSTITUTES A REPUDIATION OF A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO

THE TENANT TO RENT THE PREMISES NONCOMPLIANCE BY THE

LANDLORD WITH THE WRITTEN LEASE OR A CONDITION WHICH

CONSTITUTES A REPUDIATION OF A WRITTEN INDUCEMENT TO RENT

THE PREMISES, SUCH AS BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

(1)    LACK OF ADEQUATE FUNCTIONAL AND SUFFICIENT
LAUNDRY, COOKING, OR DISHWASHING FACILITIES;

(2)    LACK OF ADEQUATE FUNCTIONAL REFRIGERATION
OR AIR CONDITIONING;

(3)    LACK OF ADEQUATE PROPER MAINTENANCE; OR

(4)    LACK OF SPECIFIED RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.

(B)    THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 9-9(D) THROUGH 9-9(N)
SHALL APPLY TO ANY ACTION OR DEFENSE BASED UPON THIS
SECTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 16, 1978,

CHAPTER 624

(House Bill 760)

AN ACT concerning

State and Local Central Committees

FOR the purpose of requiring the parties party's State
central committee maintain in its files a copy of its