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Last page edit 03/11/08
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Click here for laws specific to Baltimore City §8–112 of the Maryland Real Property Code requires that if improvements on property rented for a term of less than seven years becomes uninhabitable because of fire or unavoidable accident, the tenancy terminates, and all liability for rent stops starting on the day of fire or unavoidable accident. Where tenant has a written lease with termination provisions, tenant should give notice of intent to vacate as provided in the lease. (The lease or other written agreement may not require that the tenant give a longer notice to terminate than the landlord must give. Md. Code, Real Property, Section 8-501.) In month-to-month or week-to-week tenancies where there is no written lease and no code requirement, state or local, relating to notice from tenant to landlord, the common law requirement is that the length of notice must be equal to the base period of the tenancy, such as one week or one month. The Maryland Code is silent on this issue, and the few reported cases do not give clear guidance. If there is any question at all about the actual term of the tenancy, tenant should give notice for the longer period of time. The notice should be in writing. A departing tenant should close the windows, lock the doors, leave the dwelling in reasonably clean condition (typically, swept with a broom), and return the keys to the landlord. |
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Source: Baltimore Neighborhoods (BNI) - See main Landlord Tenant section for more information on BNI. Updated by the Maryland State Law Library (MSLL). |
Last date legally reviewed: 03/11/08 (PLL/M.A.J.) | ||
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