Maryland § 14-876

§ 14-876.

    (a)    A circuit court may not set a hearing for an in rem foreclosure until 30 days after the complaint for an in rem foreclosure is filed.

    (b)    At the hearing, any interested party shall have the right to be heard and to contest the delinquency of the taxes and the adequacy of the proceedings.

    (c)    If the circuit court finds that the county or municipal corporation sent notice and a copy of the complaint to each interested party in accordance with § 14–875(d) of this subtitle and that the information set forth in the complaint is accurate, the court shall:

        (1)    enter a judgment that:

            (i)    proper notice has been provided to all interested parties; and

            (ii)    the real property is a vacant lot or an improved property cited as vacant and unsafe or unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice; and

        (2)    order that ownership of the real property be transferred to the county or municipal corporation on behalf of which the complaint was filed.

    (d)    (1)    The county or municipal corporation shall record a judgment under subsection (c) of this section in the land records of the county.

        (2)    The title acquired in an in rem foreclosure proceeding shall be an absolute or fee simple title including the right, title, and interest of each of the defendants in the proceeding whose property has been foreclosed unless a different title is specified in the judgment entered.

        (3)    A judgment in an action under this part is binding and conclusive, regardless of legal disability, on:

            (i)    all persons, known and unknown, who were parties to the action and who had a claim to the property, whether present or future, vested or contingent, legal or equitable, or several or undivided; and

            (ii)    all persons who were not parties to the action and had a claim to the property that was not recorded at the time that the action was commenced.