Section 3-125 - Liens created in favor of Service or municipality. - Maryland Statutes

§ 3-125. Liens created in favor of Service or municipality.
 

(a)  Recording and indexing of notice of lien required.- Any lien created in favor of the Service or a municipality pursuant to this subtitle is effective against the person on whose property the lien exists and the owner of record. However, the lien is not effective against any third party unless written notice of the lien is recorded and indexed in a permanent record maintained in the office of the clerk of the circuit court in each county in which the property subject to the lien or any part of it is located. 

(b)  Contents of notice.- The notice shall contain the name and address of the owner of record against whose property the lien exists, the name and address of the Service or municipality, the amount of the lien, a description or reference to the property subject to the lien, and the date the lien was created. 

(c)  Recording and indexing of release of lien.- On presentation of a release of any lien of the Service or municipality, the clerk of the proper court in which the lien is recorded and indexed shall record and index the release and shall note in the lien docket the date the release is filed and the fact that the lien is released. 

(d)  Expense for lien docket; fees of clerk.- The clerk of the proper court shall provide a suitable well-bound book, at the expense of the county or city, to be called the environmental service lien docket, in which the notices of liens shall be recorded and indexed. The clerk may not collect more than $2 for recording and indexing each lien or release of any lien. 
 

[1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 4, § 1; 1982, ch. 820, § 3; 1989, ch. 815; 1993, ch. 196, § 1.]