that needed to be corrected. None of these violations were in the basement or concerned using the basement rooms as sleeping areas. Apparently, these minor violations were corrected. The City of Gaithersburg conducted a re-inspection of the home on April 16, 1998 and issued a Final Rental Housing License on April 17, 1998. The April 16, 1998 re-inspection did not include an inspection of the basement because no violations had been found in the basement on March 4,1998. The City of Gaithersburg successfully moved for summary judgment against appellants’ claims on the grounds that no private cause of action exists against a municipality when it fails to enforce its own safety regulations. Willow Tree Learning Ctr., Inc. v. Prince George’s County, 85 Md.App. 508, 515, 584 A.2d 157 (1991) (<HOLDING>). The Court entered the following Orders:
recognizing that negligent conduct of police investigations does not give rise to a cause of action because the duty to protect citizens and enforce the law is one owed generally to the public holding that there must be evidence that the parent corporation assumed a duty to ensure safety holding that absence of private analog to states licensing and regulation of daycare facilities barred negligence action recognizing duty of parent to control conduct of child holding that duty of county and inspector under statute and ordinance to ensure safety of playground equipment at a daycare center was owed to public generally and could not be the basis for a negligence cause of action brought by a parent of an injured child