Howard County Quitclaim Deed (LLC Grantor) Form

A limited liability company owns Maryland real property in its own name and conveys it through a human being. This fill-in-the-blank quitclaim deed is built for that arrangement: the Grantor is a limited liability company, one authorized individual signs in the company's name, and the deed releases whatever right, title, and interest the company holds at delivery, without covenant or warranty of title.

Where a company signature gets its force

Corporations and Associations Article Section 4A-203 gives a Maryland limited liability company the general power to sell, transfer, and convey its assets. Section 4A-401(a)(2) supplies the agency half: the act of a member, including the execution in the company's name of any instrument, for apparently carrying on the business of the company in the usual way, binds the company. Articles of organization may narrow that default under Section 4A-401(a)(3), and an operating agreement may vest management in nonmembers under Section 4A-402(a)(1). Section 2 collects the signer, the capacity, and the authorization relied on; the power itself lives in the company's governing documents, and a recital of capacity states what it asserts and no more.

An acknowledgment that speaks to authority

The notarial certificate carries more freight on an entity deed. Under State Government Article Section 18-201(b), an acknowledgment of a record signed in a representative capacity is the individual's declaration, before the notarial officer, of having signed with proper authority and as the act of the entity identified in the record. The certificate on this form is the Section 18-216(c) short form written for that act, naming the individual, the type of authority, and the company on whose behalf the deed was executed.

Two tax questions an entity grantor answers

The first is residency, asked of the company rather than of a person. Tax-General Article Section 10-912 keeps a deed off the record unless a withholding payment or a statutory alternative arrives with it, and Section 10-912(d)(1)(i) lets that certification sit in the deed's recitals, where Section 8 puts it. A resident entity is one formed under Maryland law, or registered with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to do business here; the Comptroller's withholding publication puts the figure for a nonresident entity at 8.25 percent of the total payment. The second is exemption: Section 12-108(p) of the Tax-Property Article counts a limited liability company as a business entity and lifts the recordation tax off a transfer between a parent business entity and its wholly owned subsidiary, with Section 13-207(a)(9) carrying that result into the State transfer tax.

What the LLC configuration recites

The form recites exactly one Grantor, a limited liability company identified by name, jurisdiction of organization, and principal office, and exactly one individual signing in the company's name, with a printed name line carrying that individual's capacity, one acknowledgment certificate in representative capacity, and a preparation certificate holding its own capacity blank and signature line. Patterns presenting this configuration appear throughout the land records: an investment company releasing a parcel to the adjoining owner, a parent company moving a parcel to a subsidiary it wholly owns, and a company winding up and releasing its last parcel to a member. The form is not set up for a conveyance needing two or more authorized signatures, for a corporation or limited partnership grantor, or for an owner signing personally.

What the clerk's counter reads

Section 11 carries the certification Real Property Article Section 3-104(f) requires before any deed reaches the record, made by a party named in the instrument, or by or under the supervision of a Maryland attorney. Printed names accompany the company name and the signature under Section 3-104(d), and the page answers Section 3-104(e)(1)(i) in 12 point type against a statutory floor of 8, with three inches of official-use space atop page one and an inch clear at each side, margins the two 2026 acts amending the section treat differently, so the form keeps both. Section 4 carries the election district Section 3-104(f)(2) puts on the face of a deed recorded in Prince George's County, and recording itself completes the conveyance: under Section 3-101(a) an estate above seven years passes when the deed is executed and recorded.

The download holds the blank fillable quit claim deed configured for a limited liability company grantor, a completed example working a Prince George's County transfer through every blank, and a plain-language guide covering each section, entity signing authority, grantee vesting, notarization, the taxes, and county recording. It is informational and is not legal advice.