§ 8-405
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§8–405.
(a)If a tenant under a lease dies intestate and without next of kin, the landlord may bring an action for summary ejectment under § 8–401 of this subtitle against the tenant named in the lease notwithstanding the tenant’s death.
(b)The landlord shall certify to the court in the written complaint required under § 8–401(b)(1) of this subtitle that, to the best of the landlord’s knowledge, the tenant is deceased, intestate, and without next of kin.
(c)Property or income from property that a landlord holds for a deceased, intestate tenant without next of kin shall be presumed abandoned in accordance with Title 17 of the Commercial Law Article.