Ch. 651                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1353

302(d).

SECTION 46. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections 101(h),
403, 408(a), 501(b), and 502 of Article 93A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Protection of Minors and
Other Persons Under Disability," subtitles "Subtitle 1. General Provisions,"
"Subtitle 4. Minors' Recoveries in Tort," and "Subtitle 5. Miscellaneous
Provisions Relating to Minors," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, all to read as follows:

101.

(h) A "minor" is a person who has not reached his [twenty-first]
EIGHTEENTH birthday;

403.

The banking or savings and loan institution, or national banking association
shall not thereafter allow the withdrawal of any of the money except upon the
order of a circuit court, unless it be to pay the money to the minor upon the
minor's attainment of his [twenty-first] EIGHTEENTH birthday or to pay the
money to the executor or administrator of the minor's estate upon the death of the
minor prior to attainment of his [twenty-first] EIGHTEENTH birthday. Payment
by any such institution or association in accordance with the order of the court, or
to a minor on or after his attaining his [twenty-first] EIGHTEENTH birthday, or
to the personal representative of a minor's estate on or after the death of the
minor prior to his attaining his [twenty-first] EIGHTEENTH birthday, shall be a
complete discharge of such institution's or association's liability with respect to the
money so paid.

408.

(a)   "Minor" means any person under [legal age] EIGHTEEN YEARS OF
AGE who actually resided in Maryland at the time of the happening of the
occurrence out of which the claim, action, or judgment arises; or any person under
legal age who actually resides in Maryland at the time money is paid to him or to
any person acting for him because of a claim, action, or judgment in tort.

501.

(b)   Whenever money is distributable from a trust or estate or from any other
source to a minor, and there is no legally appointed guardian of the property of
such minor, the circuit court of the county in which the minor resides or the court
in which the estate is being administered may order that such money be deposited
in any banking institution or insured savings and loan association formed under the
laws of this State or in this State under the laws of the United States to be named
in the order, in which it may draw interest, in the name of the minor, subject,
however, to the order of such court where it shall remain, and the trustee or any
person having custody of the minor, shall retain the book of deposit or receipt for
such deposit until the minor reaches the age of [twenty-one] EIGHTEEN, or a
guardian is appointed, and such order and the deposit made in pursuance thereof
shall be a release to the trustee or personal representative.

502.

(a) Any married female who has attained the age of sixteen years and who
holds title to property with her husband as tenants by the entireties is hereby
authorized to join with her husband in an instrument of conveyancing, either a
deed, deed of trust, deed of trust note and financing statement, mortgage, in the