Ch. 496

LAWS OF MARYLAND

BY adding to

Article - Estates and Trusts

Section 7-103.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Estates and Trusts

1-103.

(a) Unless personal service or some other method of notice
is expressly required in this article or by the Maryland Rules,
the first notice required or permitted to be given a person is
sufficient if deposited as restricted delivery mail, postage
prepaid, return receipt requested, addressed to the addressee at
the address last known to the sender, with delivery restricted to
the addressee.

5-503.

(a) As used in this subtitle, "leasehold" property" refers
only to a leasehold interest in real property.

(b) A foreign personal representative shall publish once a
week for three successive weeks a notice in a newspaper of
general circulation in each county in which real or leasehold
property of the decedent was located, announcing his appointment,
his name and address, the name and address of his Maryland agent
for service of process on file with the register in each county
where real or leasehold property was located, the name of the
court which appointed him, a brief description of all real and
leasehold property owned by the decedent in the county, and that
claims may be filed with the register within six months from the
date of first publication. He shall record in each appropriate
office of the register a certification that he has published
notice as required.

(C) A FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE SHALL GIVE NOTICE TO
ALL KNOWN CREDITORS OF THE DECEDENT AS REQUIRED UNDER § 7-103.1
OF THIS ARTICLE.

[(C)] (D) Within six months from the date of first

publication, a creditor may file with the register a written
statement of his claim, in the form set forth in § 8-104 (c), and
deliver or mail a copy of the statement to the personal
representative. The register shall maintain a book known as the
"Claims Against Nonresident Decedents" book in which every claim
and release shall be recorded. Unless and until a release of a

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