Town of Ridgely, MD Grinder Pumps

The Town will continue to make repairs to grinder pumps under the following conditions:

The Town will not make repairs necessitated by any action (other than the expiration of the warranty period) which will void the warranty issued by the manufacturer of such pumps and will not make repairs necessitated by misuse of the grinder pump.

Except as hereinafter provided in Subsection C, whenever the ownership of a property served by a grinder pump should change, the Town will not thereafter repair the grinder pump serving the property of which ownership has changed.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection B above, the following changes in ownership of property will not be deemed to be a transfer of ownership to which Subsection B applies:

(1)

The creation of a lien or other encumbrance (such as a mortgage or deed of trust) which does not relate to a transfer of rights of occupancy in the property;

(2)

A transfer by devise, descent, or operation of law on the death of a joint tenant (that is, co-owners with rights of survivorship) or tenant by the entirety (co-ownership by spouses with rights of survivorship);

(3)

The granting of a leasehold interest of three years or less not containing an option to purchase;

(4)

A transfer to a relative resulting from the death of a borrower;

(5)

A transfer where the spouse or children of the borrower become an owner of the property;

(6)

A transfer resulting from a decree of a dissolution of marriage or legal separation agreement, or from an incidental property settlement agreement, by which the spouse of the borrower becomes an owner of the property;

(7)

A transfer into an inter vivos trust in which the borrower is and remains a beneficiary and which does not relate to a transfer of rights of occupancy in the property.