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EmailMaryland Court of Appeals Rules on Ground Rents
A ruling by the Court of Appeals in the case
of Muskin v. State Department of Assessments and Taxation overturns a key part of the 2007 law which extinguished unregistered ground rents. Under the law, ground rent leasholders were given three years to register ground rents with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation or the ground rent would be subject to being extinguished. The ruling issued by the court said that extinguishing the ground rents is an unconstitutional taking. The State Department of Assessments and Taxation has updated its website with the following: "All groundrents that would have been extinguished for failure to register them are as valid as they were before the registration deadline. Any Certificate of Extinguishment issued by this Department is void and has no effect." Read more on ground rents.
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