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Recent Legal Library Articles
2004 Comes Early to Baltimore County Rezoning Process
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:16:57-05:00Monday, March 10th, 2003|Categories: Land Use Law|
Months before the ball drops at Times Square signaling the arrival of 2004, the year 2004 comprehensive zoning map process begins in Baltimore County. The year 2004 comprehensive rezoning actually commences September 2, 2003. All landowners - whether needing a zoning change for proposed new ...
2002 Legislative Report: A Review of Real Estate Legislation Enacted by the Maryland General Assembly
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:19:02-05:00Friday, May 10th, 2002|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The 2002 Session of the Maryland General Assembly met in Annapolis for 90 days to act on more than 2,300 bills. The 416th Session began on January 9, 2002 and adjourned April 8, 2002. The Governor has scheduled signing ceremonies through May 16, 2002, when ...
Use Of IDOTs To Avoid Recordation Tax Under Attack By Maryland Attorney General
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:28-05:00Wednesday, April 10th, 2002|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The Attorney General of Maryland has filed suit against a landowner challenging the use of an Indemnity Deed of Trust (IDOT) to avoid payment of recordation tax. Earlier this month, the Attorney General filed suit in the Circuit Court for Howard County against Grayson Homes ...
New Federal Law Absolves Brownfields Developers of Superfund Liability
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:22:19-05:00Sunday, March 10th, 2002|Categories: Environmental Law|
The nation’s laws that govern hazardous waste sites date back to the late 1970s with the discovery of thousands of barrels of toxic materials buried illegally outside of Buffalo, New York. Congress responded to Love Canal and other contaminated sites by enacting the Comprehensive Environmental ...
Maryland S.B. 316 Seeks To Impose New Tax On Real Estate Transactions
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:34-05:00Sunday, February 10th, 2002|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The recent introduction of Senate Bill 316 in the 2002 Maryland General Assembly session, a bill seeking to impose recordation and transfer taxes on the transfer of controlling interest in certain business entities that own real estate, creates an important opportunity to review the subject ...
Light, Liberty And Pursuit Of The Regulation Of Light In Baltimore County
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:02-05:00Thursday, January 10th, 2002|Categories: Land Use Law|
As I sat listening to the chamber of commerce considering Baltimore County government’s proposal to legislate a reduction in outdoor lighting, I couldn’t ignore an historical irony: the debate was taking place on June 29, 2001, precisely 200 years to the day, from the birth ...
Real Estate Is Impacted By The Soldiers’ And Sailors’ Civil Relief Act
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:22-05:00Monday, December 10th, 2001|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940 should be read “with an eye friendly to those who drop their affairs to answer their country’s call.” The purpose of this federal Act, that dates from World War II, is to postpone or suspend some of ...
Zoning Laws Don’t Apply To Adult Website
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:16:56-05:00Saturday, November 10th, 2001|Categories: Land Use Law|
Ruling that Tampa’s zoning ordinance was misapplied when the U.S. District Court erroneously found that voyeurdorm.com offered adult entertainment to the public from a house in a residential zone, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed the decision. Voyeurdorm.com operates an ...




