Each tenant must, in addition to all other applicable legal requirements:
(a) Keep that part of the premises that the tenant occupies and uses as clean, sanitary, and safe as the conditions of the premises permit. A tenant of a single-family dwelling unit must cut any grass and weeds periodically and must not allow grass and weeds to grow more than 12 inches high.
(b) Dispose from the dwelling unit all rubbish, garbage and other organic or flammable waste in a clean and sanitary manner. A tenant of a single-family dwelling unit also must provide and maintain appropriate receptacles to remove ashes, rubbish, and garbage.
(c) Keep all plumbing fixtures as clean and sanitary as their condition permits.
(d) Properly use and operate all electrical and plumbing fixtures.
(e) Not permit any person on the premises with the tenant's permission to willfully or wantonly destroy, deface, damage, impair, or remove any part of the structure or dwelling unit or the facilities, equipment, or appurtenances.
(f) Comply with all covenants, rules, and requirements that are brought to the attention of the tenant, that the tenant consents to in writing, and that are reasonably necessary to preserve the property of the landlord, other tenants, or any other person.
(g) not knowingly or willingly touch, damage, remove or alter any indoor mercury service regulator on the premises of any rental property. (1972 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 1; 1992 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 1; 2000 L.M.C., ch. 32, § 1; 2021 L.M.C., ch. 15, § 1.)
Editor’s note—Section 29-29 is cited in Joseph v. Bozzuto Management Company, 173 Md. App. 305, 918 A.2d 1230 (2007).