AH-401 Condominiums and HOA – Priority of Residents over Monetization of Outside Users

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CITIZEN-DRAFTED BILL AH-401 
 
Requested: August 24, 2024 
Suggested assignment to: Environment and Transportation 
AN ACT concerning 
Condominiums and HOA – Priority of Residents over Monetization of Outside Users 
FOR the purpose of ensuring that owners and renters who are residents of condominiums are not unfairly 
burdened by use of facilities by outside users, and to ensure that monetization of resources does not run 
counter to the interests and access of residents to those resources.   
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW. 
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. 
Underlining indicates amendments to bill. 
Strike out indicates matter stricken from the bill by amendment or deleted from the law by amendment. 
 
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as 
follows: 
Article – Real Property 
11-108 
(e)  TO  THE  EXTENT  THAT  THE  GOVERNING  BODY  ALLOWS  THE  USE  OF  CONDOMINIUM  FACILITIES 
AND SERVICES OF THE COMMON ELEMENTS BY PERSONS WHO ARE NOT OWNERS OR RENTERS OF THE 
CONDOMINIUM,  THE CORRESPONDING FEES  FOR  USE  OF  FACILITIES  AND  SERVICES  OF  THE  COMMON 
ELEMENTS BY THOSE PERSONS SHALL BE DOUBLE THE REASONABLE AMOUNT CHARGED TO AN OWNER, 
RENTER, OR LEASEHOLD ESTATE OF THE CONDOMINIUM. 
 
11B-112.2   
( g ) The adoption of a budget does not impair the authority of the homeowners association to obligate 
the homeowners association for expenditures for any purpose consistent with any provision of this title. 
(  h  ) TO  THE  EXTENT  THAT  THE  GOVERNING  BODY  ALLOWS  THE  USE  OF  COMMUNITY  FACILITIES  AND 
SERVICES  OF  THE  COMMON  ELEMENTS  BY  PERSONS  WHO  ARE  NOT  OWNERS  OR  RENTERS  OF  THE 
COMMON  ELEMENTS,  THE CORRESPONDING FEES  FOR  USE  OF  FACILITIES  AND  SERVICES  OF  THE 
COMMON ELEMENTS BY  THOSE PERSONS SHALL BE DOUBLE  THE REASONABLE AMOUNT  CHARGED TO 
AN OWNER, RENTER, OR LEASEHOLD ESTATE IN THE COMMUNITY. 
 
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect October 1, 2025.