File #: O-21-23    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 5/11/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/23/2023 Final action: 10/23/2023
Title: Landlord-Tenant Relations - Relocation Expenses - For the purpose of requiring a landlord to pay a tenant a relocation payment if the tenant's housing is condemned as unfit for human habitation under certain circumstances; requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with a right of first refusal to re-occupy rental housing under certain circumstances; and generally related to landlord-tenant relations.
Sponsors: Dajuan K. Gay
Indexes: Housing and Human Welfare Committee
Attachments: 1. O-21-23 First Reader, 2. O-21-23 Legislative Summary, 3. O-21-23 Fiscal Impact Note, 4. O-21-23 Staff Report, 5. O-21-23 Maryland Judicial Conference Review, 6. O-21-23 Office of Law Legal Opinion - Preemption and Landlord Tenant Matters
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Landlord-Tenant Relations - Relocation Expenses - For the purpose of requiring a landlord to pay a tenant a relocation payment if the tenant's housing is condemned as unfit for human habitation under certain circumstances; requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with a right of first refusal to re-occupy rental housing under certain circumstances; and generally related to landlord-tenant relations.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 21-23

Introduced by: Alderman Gay
Co-sponsored by:

Referred to
Housing and Human Welfare Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Landlord-Tenant Relations - Relocation Expenses

FOR the purpose of requiring a landlord to pay a tenant a relocation payment if the tenant's housing is condemned as unfit for human habitation under certain circumstances; requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with a right of first refusal to re-occupy rental housing under certain circumstances; and generally related to landlord-tenant relations.

BY reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2022 Edition
18.08.010

BY enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2022 Edition
18.08.020
18.08.030


SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Title 18 - LANDLORD AND TENANT RELATIONS
Chapter 18.08 - ESSENTIAL SERVICES
Chapter 18.08.010 - Service and facilities essential to health and safety. Definitions.
A. All residentially leased buildings or dwelling units shall be maintained, by the landlord, in full compliance with the residential housing standards as enumerated in Chapter 17.40 of this code and applicable provisions of the Annotated Code of Maryland. A tenant shall have the remedies specified in Subsection B of this section when the landlord is in material compliance with Chapter 17.40.
B. If, after actual notice to the landlord by the t...

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