Legislation Details

Reference No. CB-018-2022    Draft No. 1
Type: Council Bill Status: Enacted
Meeting Body County Council
Meeting Date 6/7/2022
Introduced Date 5/10/2022 Public Hearing Date 06/07/2022
Effective date: 8/8/2022    
Title: AN ACT CONCERNING RENTAL HOUSING INSPECTIONS for the purpose of requiring the inspection of certain rental housing dwellings over a certain period of time; requiring certain rental housing properties receiving certain payment in lieu of taxes agreements to be inspected over a certain period of time; requiring a certain reporting requirement; providing for a certain exemption from the rental housing inspection requirement; and generally relating to rental housing inspections.
Proposers/Sponsors: Dannielle M. Glaros, Thomas E. Dernoga, Jolene Ivey, Rodney C. Streeter, Calvin S. Hawkins, Todd M. Turner, Deni L. Taveras, Edward P. Burroughs, Sydney J. Harrison, Johnathan M. Medlock
Code sections: 13-110 -
Attachments: 1. B2022018, 2. CB-018-2022 AIS, 3. CB-018-2022 AIS, 4. CB-018-2022 Report, 5. CB-018-2022 - PAFI, 6. CB-018-2022 OOL Comments
Contact: Kathy Canning, Legislative Officer

Title 

AN ACT CONCERNING RENTAL HOUSING INSPECTIONS for the purpose of requiring the inspection of certain rental housing dwellings over a certain period of time; requiring certain rental housing properties receiving certain payment in lieu of taxes agreements to be inspected over a certain period of time; requiring a certain reporting requirement; providing for a certain exemption from the rental housing inspection requirement; and generally relating to rental housing inspections.

 

Background

This rental housing inspections bill requires inspections of rental housing dwellings with ten or more units for all rental housing properties over twenty-years old every three-years. It requires that all rental housing properties with ten or more units receiving a payment in lieu of taxes agreement pursuant to Md. Ann. Code Art. Local Government, Section 1-1308 be inspected every three-years.  It requires municipalities that conduct rental housing inspections of dwellings with ten or more units to provide the Code Official information about their inspections resulting in violations within 30 days of the issuance of the violation notice. Lastly, it provides that, at the option of the Code Official, municipal inspections may take the place of inspections by the Code Official if they take place within the three-year inspection time-frame that commences on the date of the last inspection of the rental housing property which is noted on file.