{"id":"MD-038","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Maryland","state":"MD","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr.","authority":"Md. Code, Pub. Safety Title 14; Real Property 8-401, 8-402.1","instrument":"Order of the Governor (Mar. 16, 2020), Temporarily Prohibiting Evictions of Tenants Suffering Substantial Loss of Income Due to COVID-19","title":"Temporarily Prohibiting Evictions of Tenants Suffering Substantial Loss of Income Due to COVID-19","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16","end":"Amended Apr. 3, 2020, Oct. 16, 2020 and Dec. 17, 2020 (20-12-17-02, adding repossessions, residential foreclosure initiation and commercial evictions); rescinded 11:59 p.m. Aug. 15, 2021 (MD-031 II.b)","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-04-03","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["CRT","OTHER"],"addressees":["courts","landlords","tenants"],"clause":"I. Until the state of emergency is terminated and the catastrophic health emergency is rescinded, the effect of Section 8-401 of the Real Property Article of the Maryland Code is hereby suspended as follows: a. No court shall give any judgment for possession or repossession, or warrant for restitution of possession or repossession of residential real property, if the tenant can demonstrate to the court, through documentation or other objectively verifiable means, that the tenant suffered a substantial loss of income resulting from COVID-19 or the related proclamation of a state of emergency and catastrophic health emergency, including, without limitation, due to job loss, reduction in compensated hours of work, closure of place of employment, or the need to miss work to care for a home-bound school-age child. II. [same for Section 8-402.1]","enforcement":"Suspension of statute; courts bound","functions":["PM property management","SV servicing and collections","CL closings (foreclosure initiation from Dec. 17, 2020)","CM commercial leasing (commercial evictions barred from Dec. 17, 2020)"],"notes":"","sourceUrl":"https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Executive-Order-Temp-Evictions-Prohibiting.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200319085647/https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Executive-Order-Temp-Evictions-Prohibiting.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":158111,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MD","url":"/library/MD-038","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MD-038","citation":"Governor Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr, Order of the Governor (Mar. 16, 2020), Temporarily Prohibiting Evictions of Tenants Suffering Substantial Loss of Income Due to COVID-19 (Ex. MD-038)","stateName":"Maryland","related":["MD-031","SEC-13-071","MD-003","MD-035","MD-070","MD-032","MD-004","MD-033","MD-036","MD-002","MD-096","MD-098"]}