1602                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 612

Commissioners of Anne Arundel County] on the last Sunday of
October in each year.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 612
(House Bill 1320)

AN ACT to repeal Section 1-210(a) of Article 93 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1971 Supple-
ment), title "Decedents' Estates," subtitle "I. General Provisions,"
subheading "Part 2. Determining Relationship," and to enact new
Section 1-210 (a) in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the
section repealed; to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tions 3-104 and 3-110 of the same Article and title, subtitle "III.
Intestate Succession and Statutory Shares," subheading "Part 1.
Intestate Succession," to alter and clarify the manner of deter-
mining by representation shares in intestate succession, to alter
and clarify the order of intestate succession by establishing the
parentelic system, to alter and clarify the rights of inheritance
of certain persons not surviving the decedent by thirty days, and
providing for the application of these provisions to the estates of
certain decedents.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 1-210 (a) of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1969 Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "De-
cedents' Estates," subtitle "I. General Provisions," subheading
"Part 2. Determining Relationship," be and it is hereby repealed and
that new Section 1-210 (a) is enacted in lieu thereof, to stand in
the place of the section repealed; and that Sections 3-104 and 3-110
of the same Article and title, subtitle "III. Intestate Succession and
Statutory Shares," subheading "Part I. Intestate Succession," be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and all
to read as follows:

1-210.

[(a) When representation is provided in this article, the prop-
erty shall be divided into as many equal shares as there are (1)
children or brothers and sisters of the decedent, as the case may be,
who survive the decedent and (2) children or brothers and sisters
of the decedent, as the case may be, who did not survive the
decedent but of whom issue did survive the decedent. A child, or
brother or sister, as the case may be, who did survive the decedent
shall receive one share, and the share of each deceased child, or
brother or sister (leaving issue who did survive the decedent), as the
case may be, shall be divided among his issue in the same manner.]

(a) When provision is made for representation in this article,
the shares shall be determined as follows: