BALTIMORE LEAD PAINT POISONING : DEFENSE COUNSEL UPDATE

www.charlesjeromeware.com.    "Here to make a difference."

Charles Jerome Ware, Attorneys & Counselors, LLC, is a premier Maryland-based national landlord lead-paint poisoning defense law firm.  For an initial courtesy  consultation, contact us at charlesjeromeware@msn.com,  (410) 730-5016  or  (410) 720-6129.

BALTIMORE LEAD PAINT POISONING CASES CONTINUE TO DECLINE.

According to recent reports by Maryland's Department of the Environment, the number of lead paint poisoning cases in Baltimore are continuing to decline, despite the fact that state and federal officials
have lowered the threshold lead levels in the blood reflecting the need for lead poisoning concern.

State and local officials credit much of the decline in lead poisoning cases to Maryland's 20-year old law requiring landlords of homes built before 1950, when lead-based paint was widely used, to reduce risks that young tenants could be exposed to peeling or flaking paint  [ " Lead poisoning cases continue to decline"; The Baltimore Sun; 09/24/2013; by Timothy B. Wheeler].

According to state officials, most of the more seriously lead-poisoned children lived in residential units (homes) that are not now regulated by the state: either owner-occupied or rental housing built between 1950 and 1978. However, state regulators are now expanding their focus to newer rental homes and are authorized to increase scrutiny on renovation practices that might generate lead-paint dust in owner-occupied homes as well.

                                                     2015  Developments

Regulators at the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) plan to begin regulating newer rental homes in 2015, as state law requires; particularly in regards to renovations.