City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0244R

• File #: 07-0244R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for State Legislation - To Abolish Future Ground Rents and To Limit the Deleterious Economic Affects of Ground Rent Ejectments on Property Owners in Baltimore City
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/22/2007
• In control: IMMEDIATE ADOPTION
• Final action: 1/22/2007
• Title: Request for State Legislation - To Abolish Future Ground Rents and To Limit the Deleterious Economic Affects of Ground Rent Ejectments on Property Owners in Baltimore City FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2007 Session of the Maryland General Assembly to introduce legislation to abolish the archaic system of residential ground rents in Baltimore City and to limit the devastating economic impact of ejectment proceedings on persons who own property located on existing ground rent lands; urging the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings and House Environmental Matters Committees to give the legislation favorable consideration; and, should both Houses of the legislature report the measures favorably, fervently calling upon the Governor to sign the legislation into law.
• Sponsors: Agnes Welch, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, James B. Kraft, Mary Pat Clarke, Paula Johnson Branch, Robert Curran, President Young, Keiffer Mitchell, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Kenneth Harris, Rochelle Spector, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake
• Indexes: Ground Rent, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/22/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
1/22/2007	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmembers Welch, Conaway, Holton, Kraft

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Request for State Legislation - To Abolish Future Ground Rents and To Limit the Deleterious Economic Affects of Ground Rent Ejectments on Property Owners in Baltimore City

FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2007 Session of the Maryland General Assembly to introduce legislation to abolish the archaic system of residential ground rents in Baltimore City and to limit the devastating economic impact of ejectment proceedings on persons who own property located on existing ground rent lands; urging the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings and House Environmental Matters Committees to give the legislation favorable consideration; and, should both Houses of the legislature report the measures favorably, fervently calling upon the Governor to sign the legislation into law.
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On November 7, 2005, the Council adopted a resolution requesting the introduction of State legislation to abolish ground rent, a specialized form of real estate ownership where the land is owned by one party, and the real property located on the land is owned by someone else. Ground rent leases are typically leases for 99 years, renewable forever at the option of the tenant who, in the practical sense, is the owner of the property. The tenant of a ground rent property pays the real property taxes and other real property asses...