www.charlesjeromeware.com " Here to make a Difference. Maryland-based, Nationally-respected."
Premier lead poisoning and lead paint defense attorney Charles Jerome Ware is also the author of the best-selling consumer book, Legal Consumer Tips and Secrets : Avoiding Debtors' Prison in the United States, 154 pages. Chapter 12 of this best-selling book is titled " Home Improvement Consumer Secrets and Tips". The book is available from all major book outlets, including AMAZON, etc.
If you are a Maryland landlord , homeowner, or tenant --- and you are having renovation or home improvement work done on the property--- it is very important that you hire a Maryland-license home improvement contractor. The Maryland Home Improvement Commission (MHIC) licenses and regulates home improvement contractors, subcontractors and sales persons. The MHIC investigates complaints by homeowners, awards monetary damages against licensed contractors, and prosecutes violators of the home improvement law and regulations.
If you are a residential rental landlord of a pre-1978 built residential rental property, you are required by Maryland as well as by Federal law to hire only state-lead certified (by the Maryland Department of the Environment, or MDE) and/or Federally-licensed (by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA) contractors and/or workers to perform any lead abatement or removal, and any renovation work on the rental property.
The law is : A person performing maintenance, repair, or renovation work involving the disturbance of at least three square feet of lead paint in a residential rental dwelling unit constructed prior to 1950 must follow certain Maryland State lead-safe work practices [ COMAR 26.16.01]. The Federal "Pre-Renovation Lead Information Rule, also known as Section 406 (b) of the Toxic Substances Control Act, requires people performing renovation for compensation in a pre-1978 built residential unit to distribute a lead hazard information pamphlet prior to commencing the renovation
No comments:
Post a Comment