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Article: Ground rent bills assailed: Measures to alter system, end ejectment called unconstitutional.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2007
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Byline: June Arney
Mar. 5--Ground rent owners and some legal scholars contend that a number of proposed bills to change the state's ground rent system are unconstitutional.
They have focused their criticism in Annapolis on measures that would wipe out ground rents if their owners don't list them in a public registry within three years and forbid rent owners from seizing people's homes because of unpaid ground rent. The constitutional challenges have lengthened the conversation -- adding hours to hearings in both chambers. But some of the lawmakers who have pushed hardest for change say they have not slowed reform momentum or relegated the bills to ...
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Article: BALTIMORE COUNTY EXECUTIVE SMITH ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR ...
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... ... taking homes from homeowners due to an unpaid ground rent. The proposed legislation would only allow ... Department of Assessments and Taxation would require ground rent owners to register each ground rent for $20, and any ground rents that are not ...
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