PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 31

10-209. FEDERAL RECORD OF MISSING INDIVIDUAL.

AN OFFICIAL WRITTEN REPORT OR RECORD OR DULY CERTIFIED COPY OF AN
OFFICIAL WRITTEN REPORT OR RECORD THAT AN INDIVIDUAL IS MISSING, MISSING
IN ACTION, INTERNED IN A NEUTRAL COUNTRY, OR IS BELEAGUERED, BESIEGED
OR CAPTURED BY AN ENEMY OR IS DEAD OR IS ALIVE, MADE BY ANY OF THE
PERSONS REFERRED TO IN § 10-208 OF THIS SUBTITLE SHALL BE RECEIVED IN ANY
COURT, OFFICE, OR OTHER PLACE IN THE STATE AS EVIDENCE OF THE FACTS
STATED IN THE REPORT OR RECORD.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived without substantive
change from former Art. 96 1/2, § 44.

Throughout this section, the references to an "individual" who is "missing in
action..." are substituted for the former references to a "person" who "missing
in action..." because only an individual, and not other entities that may be
included in the term "person" under Art. 1, § 15 of the Code, can be missing
in action, etc. as referred to in this section.

10-210. EVIDENCE OF SIGNATURE AND AUTHORITY.

(A) SIGNATURE BY FEDERAL OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE.

FOR THE PURPOSE OF §§ 10-208 AND 10-209 OF THIS SUBTITLE, ANY FINDING,
REPORT, OR RECORD, OR DULY CERTIFIED COPY OF A FINDING, REPORT, OR
RECORD, PURPORTING TO HAVE BEEN SIGNED BY AN OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF
THE UNITED STATES DESCRIBED IN §§ 10-208 AND 10-209 OF THIS SUBTITLE, SHALL BE
PRESUMED TO HAVE BEEN SIGNED AND ISSUED BY THE OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH LAW, AND THE PERSON SIGNING SAME SHALL BE PRESUMED TO
HAVE ACTED WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE PERSON'S AUTHORITY.

(B) AUTHORITY OF FEDERAL OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE TO CERTIFY.

IF A COPY PURPORTS TO HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED BY A PERSON AUTHORIZED
BY LAW TO CERTIFY THE COPY, THE CERTIFIED COPY SHALL BE EVIDENCE OF THE
PERSON'S AUTHORITY SO TO CERTIFY.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived without substantive
change from former Art. 96 1/2, § 45.

10-918. SUITS ON NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS.

(A) EFFECT OF INABILITY TO PRODUCE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT.

SUBJECT TO SUBSECTIONS (B) AND (C) OF THIS SECTION, A PARTY WHO IS
OTHERWISE ENTITLED TO SUE AND RECOVER UPON OR UNDER ANY PROMISSORY
NOTE, BILL OF EXCHANGE, BILL OF LADING, WAREHOUSE OR STORAGE RECEIPT,
OR OTHER NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT, IS NOT PRECLUDED FROM RECOVERING BY
REASON OF THE PARTY'S INABILITY TO PRODUCE THE INSTRUMENT IN EVIDENCE
AT THE TRIAL OR SURRENDER THE INSTRUMENT TO THE DEFENDANT.

(B) ACCOUNTING FOR INSTRUMENT REQUIRED.

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