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MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  5-1202 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 5 - Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities|Subtitle 12 - Consumer Debt Collection Actions|Section 5-1202 - Effect of Expiration of Statute of Limitations

    (a)    A creditor or a collector may not initiate a consumer debt collection action after the expiration of the statute of limitations applicable to the consumer debt collection action.    (b)    (1)    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any payment toward, written or oral affirmation of, or any other activity on the debt that occurs after the expiration of the statute of limitations applicable to the consumer debt collection action does not revive or extend the limitations period.        (2)    This subsection may not be interpreted to affect the statute of limitations applicable to a cause of action arising from a separate written agreement or written payment plan entered into by the debtor and the creditor or collector before the expiration of the statute of limitations applicable to the consumer debt collection action.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  5-1204 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 5 - Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities|Subtitle 12 - Consumer Debt Collection Actions|Section 5-1204 - Construction Not to Alter Licensing Requirements Applicable to Debt Buyers or Collectors

    This subtitle may not be construed to alter any licensing requirement under federal or Maryland law applicable to debt buyers or collectors.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-101 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-101 - Definitions; Jurisdiction as to Federal Land

    (a)    (1)    For purposes of personal jurisdiction, venue, and service of process, the following terms have the meanings indicated.        (2)    “County” includes any federal enclave, reservation, or land within the geographical limits of the county.        (3)    “Resident” includes a person residing on a federal enclave, reservation, or land in the State or a county.        (4)    “State” includes any federal enclave, reservation, or land within the geographical limits of the State.    (b)    It is the intention of the General Assembly to extend the personal jurisdiction and venue of courts of the State and the power to serve process of those courts to any person on federal enclaves, reservations, or lands within the State to the fullest extent permitted by the Constitution and laws of the United States.    (c)    The jurisdiction of the United States over land acquired by it shall continue only so long as the United States owns, leases, or occupies the land.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-102 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-102 - Persons Domiciled In, Organized Under Laws Of, or Maintaining Principal Place of Business in State

    (a)    A court may exercise personal jurisdiction as to any cause of action over a person domiciled in, served with process in, organized under the laws of, or who maintains his principal place of business in the State.    (b)    This section does not limit any other basis of personal jurisdiction of a court of the State.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-102.1 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-102.1 - Director of Maryland Corporation or Trustee of Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust

    (a)    This section applies to an individual who, on or after October 1, 2017:        (1)    Accepts the election or appointment as a director of a Maryland corporation or a trustee of a Maryland real estate investment trust; or        (2)    Serves as a director of a Maryland corporation or a trustee of a Maryland real estate investment trust.    (b)    An individual subject to this section is deemed, by the acceptance or service, to have consented to the appointment of the resident agent of the corporation or real estate investment trust or, if there is no resident agent, the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, as an agent on which service of process may be made in any civil action or proceeding brought in the State:        (1)    (i)    By or on behalf of, or against, the corporation or real estate investment trust; and            (ii)    To which the individual is a necessary or proper party; or        (2)    Against the individual for an internal corporate claim as defined in § 1–101 of the Corporations and Associations Article.    (c)    The consent to service of process by an individual under subsection (b) of this section:        (1)    Is effective whether or not the individual is a director or trustee at the time a civil action or proceeding is commenced; and        (2)    Constitutes the consent of the individual that any process served in accordance with subsection (b) of this section has the same legal force and validity as if served on the individual.    (d)    The appointment under subsection (b) of this section of the resident agent of a corporation or a real estate investment trust or the State Department of Assessments and Taxation as an agent for service of process is irrevocable.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-103 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-103 - Cause of Action Arising From Conduct in State or Tortious Injury Outside State

    (a)    If jurisdiction over a person is based solely upon this section, he may be sued only on a cause of action arising from any act enumerated in this section.    (b)    A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person, who directly or by an agent:        (1)    Transacts any business or performs any character of work or service in the State;        (2)    Contracts to supply goods, food, services, or manufactured products in the State;        (3)    Causes tortious injury in the State by an act or omission in the State;        (4)    Causes tortious injury in the State or outside of the State by an act or omission outside the State if he regularly does or solicits business, engages in any other persistent course of conduct in the State or derives substantial revenue from goods, food, services, or manufactured products used or consumed in the State;        (5)    Has an interest in, uses, or possesses real property in the State; or        (6)    Contracts to insure or act as surety for, or on, any person, property, risk, contract, obligation, or agreement located, executed, or to be performed within the State at the time the contract is made, unless the parties otherwise provide in writing.    (c)    (1)    (i)    In this subsection the following terms have the meanings indicated.            (ii)    “Computer information” has the meaning stated in § 22-102 of the Commercial Law Article.            (iii)    “Computer program” has the meaning stated in § 22-102 of the Commercial Law Article.        (2)    The provisions of this section apply to computer information and computer programs in the same manner as they apply to goods and services.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-103.1 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-103.1 - Nonresident Defendant in Civil Action Involving Child Support or Alimony

    A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant in any civil proceeding arising out of the marital relationship or involving a demand for child support, spousal support, or counsel fees if the plaintiff resides in this State at the time suit is filed and the nonresident defendant has been personally served with process in accordance with the Maryland Rules and:         (1)    This State was the matrimonial domicile of the parties immediately before their separation; or        (2)    The obligation to pay child support, spousal support, or counsel fees arose under the laws of this State or under an agreement executed by one of the parties in this State.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-103.2 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-103.2 - Nonresident Defendant in Paternity Proceeding

    A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant alleged to be the father in a paternity proceeding if:         (1)    The mother resides in this State at the time the suit is filed;        (2)    The nonresident alleged father personally has been served with process in accordance with the Maryland Rules; and        (3)    The act of conception is alleged to have occurred in this State.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-103.3 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-103.3 - Recognition and Enforceability of Foreign Defamation Judgments

    (a)    In this section, “defamation” includes invasion of privacy by false facts.    (b)    A court may exercise personal jurisdiction, to the fullest extent permitted by the United States Constitution, over any person who obtains a judgment in a defamation proceeding outside the United States against any person who is a resident of this State or has assets in this State for the purpose of providing declaratory relief with respect to that person’s liability for the judgment or determining whether the judgment may not be recognized under § 10–704 of this article if the Maryland resident or person who has assets in this State may have to take actions in Maryland to comply with the foreign defamation judgment.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-104 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 1 - Bases of Personal Jurisdiction|Section 6-104 - Stay or Dismissal of Action Which Should Be Heard in Another Forum; Consolidation of Actions in District Court and Circuit Court

    (a)    If a court finds that in the interest of substantial justice an action should be heard in another forum, the court may stay or dismiss the action in whole or in part on any conditions it considers just.    (b)    (1)    When actions involving at least one of the same parties, with the same subject matter, issues, and defenses arising out of the same circumstances, are instituted in the District Court and a circuit court of the State, the party who filed the action in the District Court may file a motion in that court to remove the action to the circuit court for consolidation with the action pending in circuit court.        (2)    If the motion is granted, the court shall forward all pleadings to the circuit court.        (3)    An action removed to the circuit court and consolidated with an action in that court under the provisions of this section shall proceed in the circuit court, without regard to the amount in controversy, as if originally instituted in the circuit court.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-201 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 2 - Venue|Section 6-201 - General Rule

    (a)    Subject to the provisions of §§ 6–202 and 6–203 of this subtitle and unless otherwise provided by law, a civil action shall be brought in a county where the defendant resides, carries on a regular business, is employed, or habitually engages in a vocation. In addition, a corporation also may be sued where it maintains its principal offices in the State.    (b)    If there is more than one defendant, and there is no single venue applicable to all defendants, under subsection (a) of this section, all may be sued in a county in which any one of them could be sued, or in the county where the cause of action arose.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-202 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 2 - Venue|Section 6-202 - Additional Venue Permitted

    In addition to the venue provided in § 6-201 or § 6-203, the following actions may be brought in the indicated county:         (1)    Divorce -- Where the plaintiff resides;        (2)    Annulment -- Where the plaintiff resides or where the marriage ceremony was performed;        (3)    Action against a corporation which has no principal place of business in the State -- Where the plaintiff resides;        (4)    Replevin or detinue -- Where the property sought to be recovered is located;        (5)    Action relating to custody, guardianship, maintenance, or support of a child -- Where the father, alleged father, or mother of the child resides, or where the child resides;        (6)    Suit on a bond against a corporate surety -- Where the bond is filed, or where the contract is to be performed;        (7)    Action for possession of real property -- Where a portion of the land upon which the action is based is located;        (8)    Tort action based on negligence -- Where the cause of action arose;        (9)    Attachment on original process -- Where the property is located or where the garnishee resides;        (10)    Nondelivery or injury of goods against master or captain of a vessel -- Where the goods are received on board the vessel or where delivery is to be made under the contract;        (11)    Action for damages against a nonresident individual -- Any county in the State;        (12)    Action against a person who absconds from a county or leaves the State before the statute of limitations has run -- Where the defendant is found;        (13)    In a local action in which the defendant cannot be found in the county where the subject matter of the action is located -- In any county in which the venue is proper under § 6-201.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-203 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 2 - Venue|Section 6-203 - Exceptions to General Rule

    (a)    The general rule of § 6-201 of this subtitle does not apply to actions enumerated in this section.    (b)    (1)    The venue of the following actions is in the county where all or any portion of the subject matter of the action is located:            (i)    Partition of real estate;            (ii)    Enforcement of a charge or lien on land;            (iii)    Eminent domain;            (iv)    Trespass to land; and            (v)    Waste.        (2)    If the property lies in more than one county, the court where proceedings are first brought has jurisdiction over the entire property.    (c)    The venue of an action to recover damages against a railroad company for injury to livestock is the county where the injury occurred.    (d)    The venue of an action for guardianship under Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Family Law Article is in the county where the court has jurisdiction over the child in need of assistance case under Title 3, Subtitle 8 of this article.    (e)    (1)    Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, the venue for a proceeding for adoption of an individual who is physically within this State or subject to the jurisdiction of an equity court is in a county where:            (i)    The petitioner is domiciled;            (ii)    The petitioner has resided for at least 90 days next preceding the filing of the petition;            (iii)    A licensed child placement agency having legal or physical custody of the individual is located;            (iv)    The individual is domiciled, if the individual is related to the petitioner by blood or marriage or is an adult; or            (v)    An equity court has continuing jurisdiction over the custody of the individual.        (2)    The venue in an adoption of an individual under Title 5, Subtitle 3, Part III of the Family Law Article is in the court with jurisdiction over the individual under Title 3, Subtitle 8 of this article.        (3)    The venue in an adoption of an individual under Title 5, Subtitle 3, Part IV of the Family Law Article is in the court where the individual’s guardianship case is pending.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-301 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-301 - Manner of Service

    In addition to any method allowed by law, service of process may be made in accordance with the Maryland Rules.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-302 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-302 - Service on Sunday or Holiday; Exceptions

    (a)    The process of a court or administrative office or agency of the State or local government may be served on a Sunday or holiday.    (b)    A writ of distraint, or for eviction or possession may not be served on Sunday.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-303 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-303 - Where Service Resisted

    (a)    If a person resists service of civil process by threats, violence, or superior force, or by preventing the officer serving the process from entering the premises so that the officer cannot serve the process without force or personal risk, the officer shall leave a copy of the process:        (1)    With a responsible person at the premises; or if that is not possible        (2)    Posted as near the premises as practicable.    (b)    Service under this section is as effective as actual personal service.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-304 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-304 - Service Made Outside of State

    If the exercise of personal jurisdiction is authorized by this title, the defendant may be served with process where he is found, whether within or outside of the State.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-305 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-305 - When Witness or Party May Not Be Served

    (a)    A nonresident person who is within the State for the purpose of testifying in or prosecuting or defending an action may not be served with process.    (b)    A nonresident person passing through this State to or from another state in response to a summons to testify may not be served with process. This subsection does not apply to process arising from acts done by the person after his entry into this State.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-306 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-306 - Service on Insurance Company

    Process may be served on an insurance, surety, or bonding company by serving it on an accredited agent or on one of the persons described in the Maryland Rules.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-307 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-307 - Duty of Department of Assessments and Taxation When Served With Process

    When process is served on the Department of Assessments and Taxation in accordance with the Maryland Rules, the Director shall record the date and time of the service, and shall forward a copy of the process and notice of the service to the defendant at his mailing address, if known, or to his principal place of business.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-308 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-308 - Service on Police Department of Baltimore City

    In a suit against the Police Department of Baltimore City, process may be served on the Police Department of Baltimore City in the same manner as service is made on an agency of the State as provided in Maryland Rule 2-124.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-309 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-309 - Service by Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Employees

    (a)    Designated employees of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services may serve a criminal summons, warrant, or charging document.    (b)    The authority of an individual designated to serve criminal process under this section shall be limited to the service of process within institutions operated by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.    (c)    The Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services shall ensure that an employee designated to serve criminal process has received adequate training.    (d)    This section may not be construed to limit the authority of any employee of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to serve civil process as provided in the Maryland Rules.
MD. Courts and Judicial Proceedings Code Ann. §  6-310 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Courts and Judicial Proceedings|Title 6 - Personal Jurisdiction, Venue, Process and Practice|Subtitle 3 - Process|Section 6-310 - Service by Local Detention Center Employees

    (a)    In this section, “administrator” includes the sheriff, director, superintendent, warden, or other officer in charge of a local detention center.    (b)    The administrator may designate employees of the local detention center to serve a criminal summons, warrant, or charging document.    (c)    (1)    Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the authority of an individual designated to serve criminal process under this section shall be limited to the service of process within the local detention center.        (2)    The authority of an individual designated to serve criminal process under this section by the administrator of the local detention center in Harford County shall be limited to the service of process within:            (i)    The local detention center;            (ii)    The Circuit Court for Harford County; or            (iii)    The District Court of Maryland for Harford County.    (d)    The administrator shall ensure that an employee designated to serve criminal process has received adequate training.    (e)    This section may not be construed to limit the authority of any employee of the local detention center to serve civil process as provided in the Maryland Rules.