(a) A person must not make or enforce any deed restriction, covenant, rule, or regulation, or take any other action, that would require the owner of any building to install any roof material that does not have a class A rating, or an equivalent rating that indicates the highest level of fire protection, issued by a nationally recognized independent testing organization.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) A person includes a homeowners’ association as defined in section 24B-1.
(2) The owner of any building includes a unit owner in a condominium, a lot owner in a homeowners’ association, and a shareholder in a cooperative housing corporation.
(c) This section applies to all deed restrictions, covenants, rules, and regulations adopted before and after this section became law [March 9 1989]. (1989 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 1.)
Editor’s note—Section 22-98 is cited in Reiner v. Ehrlich, 212 Md. App. 142, 66 A.3d 1132 (2013).