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285. When used in this sub-title:

1.    "Child" means a person under the age of eighteen who is sub-
ject to the jurisdiction of the court.

2.    "Dependent child" means a child who has been deprived of
support or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the
home, physical or mental incapacity, or poverty of his parent or
guardian.

3.    "Delinquent child" means a child (a) 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;
(b) who is incorrigible or ungovernable or habitually disobedient,
or who is beyond the control of his parents, guardian, custodian or
other lawful authority; (c) who is habitually a truant; (d) who
without just cause, and without the consent of his parents, guardian
or other custodian, repeatedly deserts his home or place of abode;
(e) who is engaged in any occupation which is in violation of law, or
who associates with immoral or vicious persons; or (f) who so
deports himself as to injure wilfully or endanger the morals of
himself or others.

4.    "Neglected child" means a child (a) who is without proper
guardianship; (b) whose parent, guardian or person with whom the
child lives, by reason of cruelty, mental incapacity, immorality or
depravity is unfit to care properly for such a child; (c) who is under
unlawful or improper care, supervision, custody or restraint by [an]
any person, corporation, agency, association, institution or other or-
ganization or who is unlawfully kept out of school; (d) whose parent,
guardian or custodian neglects or refuses, when able to do so, to
provide necessary medical, surgical, institutional or hospital care for
such child; or (e) 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.

5.    "Feeble-minded child" means a child who by reason of con-
ditions existing from the time of his birth 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 ordinary prudence.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved March 29, 1963.

CHAPTER 163
(Senate Bill 380)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 444 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County (1955 Edition,
being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland)
title "Allegany County", sub-title "Mount Savage Special Tax
Area", amending the laws concerning the Mount Savage special
tax area in Allegany County in order to remove obsolete provisions
concerning the Citizens' Committee thereof.