DATE
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DESCRIPTION
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01/04/1991
File
Size: 48KB
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Land
Records – Prerequisites
to Recording – certificate of preparation required
on all deeds submitted for recording on or after 01/01/1991,
regardless of effective date of deed
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01/04/1991
File
Size: 48KB
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Land
Records – Prerequisites
to Recording – certificate of preparation for an
instrument prepared by a party that is an entity may only
be signed by an officer, partner, employee, or other "in-house" agent
with authority to act for entity
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01/04/1991
File
Size: 48KB
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Land
Records – Prerequisites
to Recording – certificate of preparation could be
provided by preparer affirming preparation to a notary
public
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01/07/1991
File
Size: 168KB
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Business
Licenses – only
licenses issued to palm readers, fortune tellers, and soothsayers
in Cecil, Charles, and Calvert Counties are subject to
the reporting requirements under the Federal Drug Enforcement
Act of 1990
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02/06/1991
File
Size: 52KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – refund of recordation tax should be granted
if mortgage or deed of trust voided during a statutory
rescission period
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02/06/1991
File
Size: 197KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – deed of trust granted by Maryland Economic
Development Corporation (MEDCO) to a private bank is exempt
because MEDCO is exempt from paying recordation tax
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02/14/1991
File
Size: 263KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – deed of trust granted to a federal credit
union is not exempt from recordation tax
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02/25/1991
File
Size: 190KB
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Civil – Fees – appeal
fees
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03/21/1991
File
Size: 158KB
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Land
Records – Prerequisites
to Recording – certificate of preparation not required
on assignments and releases of mortgages and deeds of trust
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04/11/1991
File
Size: 311KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – correction of error in 11/15/1990 memorandum
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04/12/1991
File
Size: 780KB
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Land
Records – Recordability – mortgage
or deed of trust may be re-recorded with the addition of
an affidavit of consideration if addition is executed by
lender, but not grantor
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04/12/1991
File
Size: 736KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – "original stockholder" means a
stockholder who held her stock in corporation at the time
the corporation acquired the property now being distributed
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04/23/1991
File
Size: 241KB
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Administrative – consequences
of exceeding budget
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05/23/1991
File
Size: 193KB
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Administrative – Clerk
may only accept a monetary gift to the office if Governor
consents, and may only spend such gift pursuant to an appropriation
for such expenditure
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06/13/1991
File
Size: 100KB
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Civil – Filing – combined
complaint and affidavit for confessed judgment
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06/13/1991
File
Size: 193KB
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Land
Records – Recording
Fees & Surcharges – surcharge not applicable
to certain instruments
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06/18/1991
File
Size: 399KB
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Land
Records – Releases – form
and cross-indexing of release
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06/27/1991
File
Size: 51KB
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Land
Records – Recording
Fees & Surcharges – surcharge applicable to deeds
and supplements to deeds
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07/05/1991
File
Size: 61KB
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Civil – Filing – effective
07/01/1991, notice of discovery materials to be filed,
rather than discovery materials themselves
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07/09/1991
File
Size: 183KB
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Records – Access
to Public Records – agency may choose to provide
print-outs and is not required to grant access directly
to the electronic data storage medium
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07/30/1991
File
Size: 124KB
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Administrative – classification
of employees as exempt or non-exempt for purposes of the
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
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08/01/1991
File
Size: 112KB
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Land
Records – Recording
Fees & Surcharges – surcharge applies to financing
statements recorded in Land Records
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08/01/1991
File
Size: 97KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – statement of lien, pursuant to Maryland Contract
Lien Act, is subject to recordation tax
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08/28/1991
File
Size: 253KB
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Administrative – retention
of property that had been evidence in a case
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09/27/1991
File
Size: 115KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – reconveyance by land installment contract
purchaser back to seller
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10/09/1991
File
Size: 740KB
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Administrative – non-lawyer
may not represent employee in grievance hearing, unless
non-lawyer representation in such a hearing was specifically
allowed by an act of the General Assembly or a rule of
the Court of Appeals
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10/22/1991
File
Size: 636KB
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Civil – Clerk
cannot provide forms or sample pleadings (except those
forms established by statute or rule), because doing so
would be the unauthorized practice of law by the Clerk
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11/13/1991
File
Size: 144KB
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Land
Records – Releases – assignments
of mortgage do not have to be entered in same fashion as
releases
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11/20/1991
File
Size: 40KB
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Civil – Fees – request
for waiver of prepayment of fees
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12/02/1991
File
Size: 459KB
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Land
Records – Recordation & Transfer
Taxes – application of Tax-Prop. §12-108(q)
to nonstock corporations
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12/17/1991
File
Size: 184KB
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Land
Records – Indexing – no duty to index more
than required by statute
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