HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1445

CHAPTER 818.
(Senate Bill 416)

AN ACT to amend the laws pertaining to juvenile and
related causes in Baltimore City, to confer jurisdiction
in such causes upon the Circuit Court of Baltimore City,
to provide for the care and treatment of children found
by said court to be dependent, delinquent, neglected or
feeble-minded, and to abolish the offices of Magistrate
and Assistant Magistrate, for Juvenile Causes in Balti-
more City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland and the Baltimore City Charter (1938 Edi-
tion), title "Courts", be and the same is hereby amended
by adding a new sub-title "Juvenile Causes" and nineteen
new sections following Section 420 of said Article 4, said
new sections to be known as Sections 420(A), 420(B),
420 (C), 420 (D), 420 (E), 420 (F), 420 (G), 420 (H),
420(1), 420(J), 420 (K), 420 (L), 420(M), 420(N),
420(0), 420(P), 420(Q), 420(R), and 420(S), and
to read as follows:

JUVENILE CAUSES

420(A). In addition to the jurisdiction now possessed
and exercised by the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, said
Court shall have jurisdiction in juvenile causes as herein-
after defined. The Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall
assign a judge of said Bench to exercise such jurisdiction.
It is considered basic to the operation of this sub-title that
the Judge so assigned need not be subject to rotation.

420(B). When used in this sub-title, unless the con-
text otherwise requires:

(a) "Judge" means the judge assigned by the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City to ^exercise the jurisdiction in
juvenile causes herein conferred.

(b) "Child" means a person under the age of sixteen
years and subject to the jurisdiction of the court.

(e). "Dependent child" means a child who has been de-
prived of support or care by reason of the death, con-
tinued absence from the home, physical or mental incapac-
ity, or poverty of his parent or guardian.

(d) "Delinquent child" means a child (1) who violates
any law or ordinance, or who commits any act which, if