Source: https://govt.westlaw.com/mdc/Document/NBF649A50AC9911E09A4BA65324B6A42C?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)
Timestamp: 2020-08-14 05:32:34
Document Index: 25830699

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 11', '§ 11', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 4', '§ 2', '§ 5', '§ 1', '§ 3', '§ 11', '§ 11']

§ 11-111.1. Family child care homes and no-impact home-based businesses
MD Code, Real Property, § 11-111.1
(b)(1) The provisions of this section relating to family child care homes do not apply to a condominium that is limited to housing for older persons, as defined under the federal Fair Housing Act.1
(2) The provisions of this section relating to no-impact home-based businesses do not apply to a condominium that has adopted, prior to July 1, 1999, procedures in accordance with its covenants, declaration, or bylaws for the regulation or prohibition of no-impact home-based businesses.
Construction of general provisions restricting commercial or business activities
(c)(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (d) and (e)(1) of this section, a recorded covenant or restriction, a provision in a declaration, or a provision of the bylaws or rules of a condominium that prohibits or restricts commercial or business activity in general, but does not expressly apply to family child care homes or no-impact home-based businesses, may not be construed to prohibit or restrict:
(ii) Use of the roads, sidewalks, and other common elements of the condominium by users of the family child care home.
Provisions prohibiting use of unit as family child care home or no-impact home-based business
(d)(1)(i) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, a condominium may include in its declaration, bylaws, or rules and restrictions a provision expressly prohibiting the use of a unit as a family child care home or no-impact home-based business.
(ii) A provision described under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph expressly prohibiting the use of a unit as a family child care home or no-impact home-based business shall apply to an existing family child care home or no-impact home-based business in the condominium.
(2) A provision described under paragraph (1)(i) of this subsection expressly prohibiting the use of a unit as a family child care home or no-impact home-based business may not be enforced unless it is approved by a simple majority of the total eligible voters of the condominium under the voting procedures contained in the declaration or bylaws of the condominium.
(3) If a condominium includes in its declaration, bylaws, or rules and restrictions, a provision prohibiting the use of a unit as a family child care home or no-impact home-based business, it shall also include a provision stating that the prohibition may be eliminated and family child care homes or no-impact home-based businesses may be approved by a simple majority of the total eligible voters of the condominium under the voting procedures contained in the declaration or bylaws of the condominium.
(4) If a condominium includes in its declaration, bylaws, or rules and restrictions a provision expressly prohibiting the use of a unit as a family child care home or no-impact home-based business, the prohibition may be eliminated and family child care or no-impact home-based business activities may be permitted by the approval of a simple majority of the total eligible voters of the condominium under the voting procedures contained in the declaration or bylaws of the condominium.
Provisions restricting number of family child care homes
(e) A condominium may include in its declaration, bylaws, or rules and restrictions a provision that:
(1) Regulates the number or percentage of family child care homes operating in the condominium, provided that the percentage of family child care homes permitted may not be less than 7.5 percent of the total units of the condominium;
(2) Requires child care providers to pay on a pro rata basis based on the total number of family child care homes operating in the condominium any increase in insurance costs of the condominium that are solely and directly attributable to the operation of family child care homes in the condominium; and
(3) Imposes a fee for use of common elements in a reasonable amount not to exceed $50 per year on each family child care home or no-impact home-based business which is registered and operating in the condominium.
Notification of family child care homes or no-impact home-based businesses
(f)(1) If the condominium regulates the number or percentage of family child care homes under subsection (e)(1) of this section, in order to assure compliance with the regulation, the condominium may require residents to notify the condominium before opening a family child care home.
(2) The condominium may require residents to notify the condominium before opening a no-impact home-based business.
(g)(1) A child care provider in a condominium:
(2) A condominium may not require a child care provider to obtain insurance in an amount greater than the minimum amount required under paragraph (1) of this subsection.
(h) A condominium may restrict or prohibit a no-impact home-based business in any common elements.
Construction with other sections
(i) To the extent that this section is inconsistent with any other provision of this title, this section shall take precedence over any inconsistent provision.
Added by Acts 1989, c. 491, § 1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 1989, c. 492, § 1, eff. July 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, c. 70, § 4, eff. Oct. 1, 1997; Acts 1998, c. 341, § 2, eff. July 1, 1998; Acts 2006, c. 44, § 5, eff. April 8, 2006; Acts 2010, c. 72, § 1, eff. April 13, 2010; Acts 2011, c. 564, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 2012 .
MD Code, Real Property, § 11-111.1, MD REAL PROP § 11-111.1