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Options Exist To Change FEMA Floodplain Determination
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:22:29-05:00Wednesday, September 10th, 2003|Categories: Environmental Law|
At a time when the Federal Emergency Management Agency is about to launch an effort to redraw the 100,000 flood maps across the country, it is important to be aware what options exist if a property owner disagrees with a floodplain determination. In the parlance ...
High Court to Determine Who Owns the Waters of the Potomac
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:21:55-05:00Wednesday, September 10th, 2003|Categories: Environmental Law|
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments during the first week of October to determine who owns the waters of the Potomac River, deciding whether Maryland can prevent Virginia from drawing water from a newly constructed intake pipe in the middle of the ...
A Brief History of Zoning in Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:16:58-05:00Sunday, August 10th, 2003|Categories: Land Use Law|
Zoning is a relatively new invention in Maryland. Zoning did not exist when the province of Maryland was first granted in 1634 and it was not until nearly 300 years later that the courts first upheld the enactment of a zoning ordinance in Baltimore City. ...
Demolition of Premises Does Not Terminate Obligation to Pay Rent by Prior Tenant
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:21-05:00Sunday, August 10th, 2003|Categories: Real Estate Law|
Circuit City defaulted on a 20-year lease in the Wintergreen Plaza Shopping Center when the electronics retailer relocated to a different Rockville Pike shopping center in violation of a “continuous operation” provision of the lease. And in this case, instructive to landlords and tenants alike, ...
Does Maryland Now Make the Landlord an Insurer Against Crime?
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:19-05:00Thursday, July 10th, 2003|Categories: Real Estate Law|
At approximately 1:17 a.m. on June 13, 1998, an unidentified intruder entered apartment A-2 of the Pelham Wood Apartments, a second floor two-bedroom unit, through a sliding glass door and upon encountering the tenant in the apartment master bedroom shot him in the abdomen. The ...
A Right and Responsibility to Shape the Public Good
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:27-05:00Saturday, May 10th, 2003|Categories: Real Estate Law|
Comments of Stuart D. Kaplow, Chair of the Board of the Greater Towson Committee, at the occasion of the 2003 annual meeting. This is an historic time - 2003 is the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the first business in Towson. The first residents ...
USA Patriot Act to Impose New Requirements on Real Estate Settlements
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:17-05:00Saturday, May 10th, 2003|Categories: Real Estate Law|
Under the USA Patriotic Act “persons involved in real estate closings and settlements” are required to establish anti-money laundering programs. Participants in residential and commercial real estate transactions now risk the imposition, by the federal government, of onerous anti-money laundering requirements that would have been ...
Sun Sets in 2003 on Legislation to Outlaw Unmetered Water Billing
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:29-05:00Sunday, April 20th, 2003|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The Maryland General Assembly has sent to ‘summer study’ legislation that prohibits landlords from unmetered water billing to tenants. House Bill 976 prohibits landlords from using a “ratio utility system” to charge a tenant for water consumption and waste water or sewerage use by the ...




