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[Excerpted from The Baltimore Sun, Saturday, August 22, 2015, front page, "Maryland warns landlords about lead compliance", by Timothy B Wheeler]
With many Maryland landlords failing to respond to the state's expanded effort to curb childhood lead poisoning, officials are mass-mailing pointed reminders this summer to tens of thousands of property owners to register their rental units or risk being fined.
In mid-July, the State Department of the Environment (MDE) began sending letters to 87,000 owners of properties built between 1950 and 1978 that should have registered with the state earlier this year if they are being rented and contain lead-based paint. * * *
For nearly 20 years, the state has required rental units built before 1950 to be inspected and tested to certify they are safe. That was the year Baltimore City banned the sale of lead-based paint. Lawmakers expanded the regulatory effort beginning this year (2015) because lead paint for home interiors was not banned in the rest of the state until 1977.
[MDE] said it has registered nearly 51,000 rental units that were built between 1950 and 1978, but state real estate assessment records indicate there could be up to five times that number statewide. This is the second round of mailings to those property owners since the registration requirement took effect in January 2015. * * *
Homes or residential units built before 1978 do not have to register if they are not being rented, or if they do not have lead paint. Owners claiming a unit is lead-free must submit a certificate verifying that information. MDE reports that landlords have declared more than 34,000 rental units lead-free so far in 2015.
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