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Letter from State Law Department on House Bill No. 799

Honorable Marvin Mandel
Governor of Maryland
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Re: House Bills 218 and 799
Dear Governor Mandel:

I have reviewed House Bills 218 and 799 for legal sufficiency.

Section (d) of House Bill 218 obviously intended to provide that
great-grandparents would inherit, by representation, in the event a
decedent was not survived by parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents,
or the issue of any of these. However, inadvertently, Section (d) fails
to refer to or exclude brothers, sisters, or their issue, and I feel the
bill is, therefore, defective. If enacted, unintended legal contests could
develop between brothers, sisters, or their issue, on the one hand, and
great-grandparents, or their issue, on the other hand, over the right
to inherit.

House Bill 799 should not be enacted into law if House Bill 218
is vetoed. House Bill 799 establishes the methods for determining
representation for the issue of grandparents and great-grandparents.
However, without the amending effect of House Bill 218, Section 3-104
of Article 93 of the Maryland Code prohibits the taking, by represen-
tation, of the issue of grandparents or great-grandparents. Further-
more, the language of Section 2 of House Bill 799 would, in my opinion,
present difficult problems of interpretation.

Sincerely yours,
/s/ Francis B. Burch,

Attorney General.

House Bill No. 863—Montgomery County Review of Highway

Programs

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 211-I
of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland 1969 Replacement
Volume), title "State Roads," subtitle "Expenditure of Commission's
Funds and Programming and Scheduling of Highway Projects," to
provide for State Roads Commission reporting and briefing of the
Montgomery County State Delegates, Senators, County Executive and
County Council on the highway construction and reconstruction pro-
gram for Montgomery County and to require that a public hearing on
this program be held by the State Delegates, Senators, County Execu-
tive and County Council.

May 28, 1971.

Honorable Thomas Hunter Lowe
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. Speaker :

In accordance with Article II, Section 17, of the Maryland Con-
stitution, I have today vetoed House Bill 863.