MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                           7

restriction by will; providing that additional, extended powers
may be conferred upon a personal representative by will or by
agreement of all interested persons; providing a personal repre-
senative acting under extended powers with the authority to
deliver inventories and accounts to all interested persons and to
the Register in lieu of filing such documents among the public
records; establishing 18 as the minimum age for execution of
wills; providing in certain situations for 30 days' survivorship as
a condition for a person's taking as an heir or legatee; providing
for incorporation by reference in a will under certain conditions;
providing certain uniform statutory forms to be used in the
administration of estates; requiring that notice be given to heirs
in a testate as well as an intestate administration; increasing the
limit on the value of small estates and providing that no inheri-
tance tax be paid thereon; placing the laws relating to wards and
guardians in a separate article of the Code and, except for such
laws, providing for the precedence of the provisions of this Act
over all other laws affecting Article 93 heretofore enacted, includ-
ing any passed at this session signed by the Governor prior to his
signing of this Act; and relating generally to the estates of
deceased persons, their composition, devolution, administration
and distribution and to the rights of spouses, relatives and credi-
tors therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 1 to 43, inclusive, Sections 45 to 163, inclusive, Sections
171 to 174, inclusive, Section 214, Sections 225 to 263, inclusive,
Sections 265 to 273, inclusive, and Sections 277 to 393, inclusive of
Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume and 1968 Supplement), title "Testamentary Law," be, and
they are hereby repealed; and Sections 1-101 to 12-102 be and they
are hereby enacted in lieu thereof to stand in the place of the sections
so repealed under the new title "Decedents Estates" and to read as
follows :

SUBTITLE I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 1—Definitions and Use of Terms.

1-101. Definitions.

When used in this Article, unless otherwise apparent from the
context:

(a)    "Administrative probate" means probate as defined in Sec-
tion 5-301.

(b)    "Child" is defined in Sections 1-205 through 1-208.

(c)    "County" includes Baltimore City.

(d)    "Court" is defined in Section 2-101.

(e) "Extended powers" refers to those power set forth in Section

7-402.

(f) (E) "Heir" means a person entitled pursuant to Part 1
of Subtitle III to property of an intestate decedent.