MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            13

2-106. Time and place of sessions.

(a)    Generally. The Court, unless a different time is prescribed
by local law, shall be held in each County at the usual place of
holding court in said County, on the second Tuesday in every month
of February, April, June, August, October and December, and
oftener if need be, according to its own adjournment; and any one
of the judges of the Court, in the absence of the others shall have
power to hold court at a stated time of adjournment only for the
purpose of adjourning; any two of them shall have full power to do
any act which the Court is or shall be authorized by law to perform,
and any two of them shall have power to hold court on any day not
named in an adjournment, on the application of any person having
pressing business in the Court; provided, notice thereof be given to
all interested persons, and in such case the Register shall record
that such notice has been given. Any one of the judges, in the
absence of the others on account of prolonged illness, or in case of
vacancy, shall have full power to do any act which the Court is
authorized by law to do, provided there be attached to the proceed-
ings or papers in each case a certificate signed by the Register,
certifying to the vacancy or to the illness or inability of the judge
or judges not attending court on said day. If the Court shall not
meet on a day fixed for its meeting and shall not be adjourned as
hereinbefore provided, the Register shall adjourn the Court from day
to day until a meeting shall be had according to law.

(b)    Baltimore City. The sessions of the Court in Baltimore
City shall continue from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., if necessary for the
transaction of the business of the Court.

(c)    Montgomery County. In Montgomery County any judge of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County at the time sitting as the
Orphans' Court for said County shall have full power to do any act
which the Orphans' Court of said County is or shall be authorized by
law to perform, including the power to hold court on any day not
named in an adjournment as hereinbefore provided.

(d)    Prince George's County. Each Judge of the Court for Prince
George's County shall spend at least three days each week in the
conduct of the business of the Court.

2-107. Chief Judge.

(a)    General. The Governor shall, of the three persons elected
Judges of the Court in the several Counties, designate and com-
mission one as Chief Judge of his respective Court; and full power
and authority are hereby vested in each of said Judges so designated
and commissioned as Chief Judge to act as such Chief Judge, and all
writs and other process tested in the names of said Chief Judges
respectively are hereby declared valid to all intents and purposes.

(b)    Montgomery County. Whenever reference is made in this
Article to the Chief Judge of the Court of any County there shall be
meant thereby, with regard to Montgomery County, the Judge of the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County then sitting as the Orphans'
Court for Montgomery County; and, whenever reference is made
to the Judges of the Court in plural number, it shall be understood
that, with respect to Montgomery County, such reference shall be
to the Judge of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County then sitting