WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 415
CHAPTER 89
(House Bill 86)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3
of Article 67 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Negligence Causing Death", increasing from
one to three years YEAR TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS the
period of limitations for the bringing of actions for negli-
gence causing death.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 3 of Article 67 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Negligence Causing Death",
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

3. Every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife,
husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall
have been so caused and shall be brought by and in the name
of the State of Maryland for the use of the person entitled to
damages; "parent" shall include the mother of an illegitimate
child whose death shall have been so caused; "child" shall
include an illegitimate child whenever the person whose death
is so caused is the mother of such child; and in every such
action the jury may give such damages as they may think
proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the
parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such
action shall be brought, and the amount so recovered, after
deducting the costs not recovered from the defendant, shall
be divided amongst the above-mentioned parties, in such
shares as the jury by their verdict shall find and direct; pro-
vided, that not more than one action shall lie for and in
respect of the same subject-matter of complaint; and that
every such action shall be commenced within [twelve calendar
months]

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EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE
DECEASED person.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1950.

Approved March 28, 1950.

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike-out indicates matter stricken out of bill.f bill.