HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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       SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act

shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 8, 1980.

CHAPTER 117
(House Bill 1970)
AN ACT concerning

Estates and Trusts - Definition of Issue

FOR the purpose of clarifying the meaning of the word
issue", in the Estates and Trusts Article of the
Annotated Code of Maryland.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Estates and Trusts

Section 1-209

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1979 Supplement)

     SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article - Estates and Trusts
1-209.

(A)  IN CONSTRUING ALL PROVISIONS OF THE ESTATES OF
DECEDENTS LAW AND, UNLESS A CONTRARY INTENTION IS INDICATED
IN CONSTRUING THE TERMS OF A WILL, [Issue] ISSUE means every
living lineal descendant except a lineal descendant of a
living lineal descendant.

(B)  A person who is treated as a child of a person
pursuant to §§ 1-205 through 1-208 shall be considered for
all purposes as:

(1)  a lineal descendant of the person; and

(2)  subject to the exception in the first
sentence of this section, a lineal descendant of all persons
of whom the person is a lineal descendant.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.