Just cause eviction rules in Harford County, MD — sometimes called tenant protection or "for cause" eviction ordinances — list the specific legal reasons a landlord can end a tenancy.
Maryland requires no just cause to end a tenancy, and Harford County has added none. A landlord evicts only through District Court, never self-help, but may decline to renew a lease or end a periodic tenancy with proper written notice for any reason.
Maryland has no statewide just-cause eviction law. A landlord who wants a tenant out uses one of the statutory court actions: summary ejectment for nonpayment under Real Property 8-401, or a holdover action under 8-402 after a lease ends or a periodic tenancy is terminated by notice. No cause beyond the expiration itself is needed to refuse renewal, though the 2021 law now requires a 10-day written notice of intent to file before a nonpayment case, and a month-to-month tenancy takes 60 days' written notice to end. Maryland lets counties add just-cause protection by local law; Harford County has not. So the general rule controls: proper notice and a court order, but no good-cause requirement.
A landlord who resorts to self-help, changing locks, removing belongings, or cutting utilities, faces liability; eviction runs only through the sheriff on a District Court judgment. Filing a nonpayment case without the 10-day notice gets the case dismissed.
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