964 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 797

48B. When used in this sub-title, unless the context clearly
requires otherwise:

(a) "Court" means the Circuit Court of the county, sitting
for juvenile causes.

(b) "Judge" means a Judge of the Circuit Court exercising
the jurisdiction in juvenile causes herein conferred.

(c) "Child" means a person under the age of eighteen (18)
years who is within the jurisdiction of the Court.

(d) "Dependent child" means a child who has been de-
prived of support or care by reason of the death, continued
absence from the home, physical or mental incapacity, or pov-
erty of his parent or guardian.

(e) "Delinquent child" means a child (1) who violates any
law or ordinance, or who commits any act which, if committed
by an adult, would be a crime not punishable by death or
life imprisonment; (2) who is incorrigible or ungovernable
or habitually disobedient or who is beyond the control of his
parents, guardian, custodian or other lawful authority; (3)
who is habitually a truant; (4) who without just cause and
without the consent of his parents, guardian or other custo-
dian, repeatedly deserts his home or place of abode; (5) who
is engaged in any occupation which is in violation of law,
or who associates with immoral or vicious persons; or (6')
who so deports himself as to injure or endanger the morals of
himself or others.

(f) "Neglected child" means a child (1) who is without
proper guardianship; (2) whose parent, guardian or per-
son with whom the child lives, by reason of cruelty, mental
incapacity, immorality or depravity, is unfit to care prop-
erly for such a child; (3) who is under unlawful or im-
proper care, supervision, custody or restraint, by any per-
son, corporation, agency, association, institution or other
organization or who is unlawfully kept out of school; (4)
whose parent, guardian or custodian neglects or refuses, when
able to do so, to provide necessary medical, surgical, institu-
tional or hospital care for such child; or (5) who is in such
condition of want or suffering, or is under such improper
guardianship or control, or is engaged in such occupation as
to injure or endanger the morals or health of himself or others.

(g) "Feeble-minded child" means a child who has a level of
intelligence sufficiently low that he is unable to compete with
his fellows on equal terms or to manage his affairs with ordi-
nary prudence.

48C. Except as otherwise provided herein the Judge shall
have (a) original, exclusive jurisdiction concerning any child
who is dependent, delinquent, neglected or feeble-minded; (b)
original jurisdiction to determine paternity of such a child in