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COURT MAY ASSIGN A MASTER OR MASTERS IN JUVE-
NILE CAUSES TO CONDUCT PROCEEDINGS IN VARIOUS
LOCALITIES THROUGHOUT BALTIMORE COUNTY AT
TIMES AND PLACES TO BE SELECTED BY THE ADMIN-
ISTRATIVE JUDGE.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 51, 67, SECTION 69, 92, 100 and 145 (d) of Article 26
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume and
1970 Supplement), title "Courts," subtitles "Juvenile Causes,"
"Minors Without Proper Care or Guardianship," and "District
Courts," respectively, be and they are hereby repealed and re enacted,
SUBTITLE "JUVENILE CAUSES," BE AND IT IS HEREBY
REPEALED AND RE-ENACTED, with amendments, to read as
follows:

51.

(a) The circuit court and district court for each county shall have
jurisdiction in juvenile causes, as hereinafter defined. When so
engaged, [it] they shall be known as "The Circuit Court or District

Court for................County, sitting as a Juvenile Court." In addi-

tion to the jurisdiction now possessed and exercised by the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City, said court shall have jurisdiction in juve-
nile causes as hereinafter defined, and a division of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore City exercising this jurisdiction shall be known
as the division for juvenile causes of said court. The Supreme Bench

of Baltimore City shall assign a judge or judges of said bench to

exercise such jurisdiction.

     (b) As used in this subtitle, "court" means the circuit court and

district court of the county sitting for juvenile causes.

67.

The clerk of the [circuit] court in each county shall act also as
clerk of said court for all cases arising under this subtitle, in all

appropriate respects as said clerk serves the [circuit] court in its

other capacities, including the keeping of a separate docket book.

69.

Any judge or judges of any of the eight judicial circuits or twelve
districts who otherwise have [not] no power to appoint a master
or masters in chancery may appoint a master or masters in chancery
for the purposes of this subtitle. Any master or masters in chancery
appointed under authority of this section shall receive such annual
salary as the board of county commissioners or county council or
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, as the case may be, may
provide in its budget, to be paid by the particular political sub-
division. Any master in chancery shall perform his duties under the
supervision of the judge or judges who appointed him and in accord-
ance with the rules and procedures of that court. IN BALTIMORE
COUNTY THE ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT MAY ASSIGN A MASTER OR MASTERS IN JUVENILE
CAUSES TO CONDUCT PROCEEDINGS IN VARIOUS LOCALI-
TIES THROUGHOUT BALTIMORE COUNTY AT TIMES AND
PLACES TO BE SELECTED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE
JUDGE.