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MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-516 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 5 - Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 4-516 - Donor Registry

    (a)    In this section, “qualified nonprofit entity” means a procurement organization exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or an entity exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that actively functions in a supporting relationship to one or more procurement organizations if the procurement organization or other entity has a board of directors whose members are experienced in:        (1)    Organ, tissue, and eye donation;        (2)    Working with donors and donor families; and        (3)    Educating the public about the importance of the process of organ, tissue, and eye donation.    (b)    (1)    The Secretary of Health shall contract with a qualified nonprofit entity for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of a donor registry.        (2)    The Secretary of Health shall use funds from the Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund established under Title 13, Subtitle 9 of the Health – General Article or any other funds as may be appropriate to compensate the nonprofit entity contracted with under paragraph (1) of this subsection for the reasonable cost of establishing, maintaining, and operating the donor registry, including the reasonable cost of public education programs to increase public awareness about the existence and purpose of the registry and organ, tissue, and eye donation.    (c)    The Motor Vehicle Administration shall cooperate with the qualified nonprofit entity contracted with under subsection (b)(1) of this section for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor’s making, amending of, or revoking of an anatomical gift.    (d)    A donor registry shall be accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to allow:        (1)    A donor to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made or amended an anatomical gift;        (2)    A donor to revoke an anatomical gift; or        (3)    A procurement organization to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at the death or imminent death of a donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.    (e)    Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at the death or imminent death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made or amended an anatomical gift.    (f)    (1)    This section does not prohibit a person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the State.        (2)    A registry that is not established by or under contract with the State shall comply with subsections (d) and (e) of this section.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-517 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 5 - Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 4-517 - Conflicts With Advance Health Care Directives of Donor

    (a)    In this section, “advance health care directive” means a power of attorney for health care or a record signed or authorized by a prospective donor in accordance with §§ 5–601 through 5–618 of the Health – General Article containing the prospective donor’s direction concerning a health–care decision for the prospective donor.    (b)    (1)    (i)    If a prospective donor has a declaration or advance health care directive and the terms of the declaration or directive and the express or implied terms of a potential anatomical gift are in conflict with regard to the administration of measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for transplantation or therapy:                1.    The prospective donor’s attending physician and prospective donor shall confer to resolve the conflict; or                2.    If the prospective donor is incapable of resolving the conflict, an agent acting under the prospective donor’s declaration or directive shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict.            (ii)    If there is not an agent or the agent is not reasonably available, another person authorized by a law other than this subtitle to make health care decisions on behalf of the prospective donor shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict.        (2)    Information relevant to the resolution of the conflict under this subsection may be obtained from the appropriate procurement organization and any other person authorized to make an anatomical gift for the prospective donor under § 4–507 of this subtitle.        (3)    Before resolution of a conflict under this subsection, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part from a prospective donor may be administered unless it is determined that the administration of those measures would not provide the prospective donor with appropriate end–of–life care, consistent with reasonable medical judgment.        (4)    If the conflict under this subsection is not resolved expeditiously, the direction of the declaration or advance health care directive controls.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-520 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 5 - Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 4-520 - Construction of Subtitle

    In applying and construing this subtitle, which is a uniform act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact the provisions of this subtitle.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-521 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 5 - Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 4-521 - Subtitle Does Not Authorize Electronic Delivery of Notices

    This subtitle modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(a) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b).
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-522 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 5 - Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 4-522 - Short Title

    This subtitle may be cited as the Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-601 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-601 - Definitions

    (a)    In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.    (b)    “Authorized person” or “person authorized to act in connection with international wills” means a person, including a member of the diplomatic and consular service of the United States designated by Foreign Service Regulations, who, under § 4–609 of this subtitle or by the laws of the United States, is empowered to supervise the execution of international wills.    (c)    “International will” means a will executed in conformity with §§ 4–602 through 4–605 of this subtitle.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-602 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-602 - Validity of International Will; Scope of Subtitle

    (a)    A will is valid as regards form, irrespective particularly of the place where the will has been made, the location of the assets, and the nationality, domicile, or residence of the testator, if the will is made in the form of an international will complying with the requirements of this subtitle.    (b)    The invalidity of a will as an international will does not affect its formal validity as a will of another kind.    (c)    This subtitle does not apply to any form of testamentary disposition made by two or more persons in one instrument.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-603 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-603 - Requirements

    (a)    An international will:        (1)    Shall be made in writing;        (2)    Does not need to be written by the testator;        (3)    May be written in any language; and        (4)    May be written by hand or by any other means.    (b)    (1)    The testator shall declare in the presence of at least two witnesses and a person authorized to act in connection with international wills that the document is the testator’s will and that the testator knows the contents of the document.        (2)    The testator need not inform the witnesses or the authorized person of the contents of the will.    (c)    In the presence of the witnesses and of the authorized person, a testator shall:        (1)    Sign the will; or        (2)    If the testator has previously signed the will, acknowledge the testator’s signature.    (d)    (1)    If a testator is unable to sign, the absence of the testator’s signature does not affect the validity of the will if:            (i)    The testator indicates the reason for the testator’s inability to sign; and            (ii)    The authorized person makes note on the will of the reason for the testator’s inability to sign.        (2)    If a testator is unable to sign, another person present, including the authorized person or one of the witnesses, may sign the testator’s name for the testator if:            (i)    The other person signs at the direction of the testator; and            (ii)    The authorized person makes note on the will of the other person signing the testator’s name at the direction of the testator.        (3)    Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of this subsection, a person is not required to sign the testator’s name at the testator’s direction.    (e)    The witnesses and the authorized person shall there and then attest the will by signing their names in the presence of the testator.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-604 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-604 - Signatures, Date, Declaration of Safekeeping, Compliance With Section

    (a)    (1)    The signatures required under § 4–603 of this subtitle shall be placed at the end of the will.        (2)    If the will consists of more than one sheet, each sheet shall be numbered.        (3)    If a will consists of more than one sheet, each sheet shall be signed by:            (i)    The testator; or            (ii)    1.    If the testator is unable to sign the testator’s name, a person signing at the direction of the testator; or                2.    If there is no person signing at the direction of the testator, the authorized person.    (b)    The date of the will shall be:        (1)    The date of the authorized person’s signature on the will; and        (2)    Noted at the end of the will by the authorized person.    (c)    (1)    The authorized person shall ask the testator whether the testator wishes to make a declaration concerning the safekeeping of the testator’s will.        (2)    If the testator responds by an express request for the safekeeping of the will, the place where the testator intends to have the will kept shall be included in the certificate described under § 4–605 of this subtitle.    (d)    A will executed in compliance with § 4–603 of this subtitle is not invalid solely because the will does not comply with this section.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-605 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-605 - Certificate

    (a)    An authorized person shall attach to the will a certificate to be signed by the authorized person establishing that the requirements for valid execution of an international will have been met.    (b)    The authorized person shall keep a copy of the certificate and deliver a copy to the testator.    (c)    A certificate under this section shall be substantially in the following form:“CERTIFICATE(Convention of October 26, 1973)    I, __________________ (name, address, and capacity), a person authorized to act in connection with international wills, certify that on ________________________ (date) at__________________(place)___________________(testator)____________________(name, address, and date and place of birth) in my presence and that of the witnesses: _____________________ (name, address, and date and place of birth); and _____________________ (name, address, and date and place of birth) has declared that the attached document is the testator’s will and that the testator knows the contents of the will.    I further certify that in my presence and in the presence of the witnesses:    (1)    the testator has signed the will or has acknowledged the testator’s signature previously affixed;    (2)    following a declaration of the testator stating that the testator was unable to sign the testator’s will for the following reason ____________________, I have noted this declaration on the will and the signature has been affixed  by _____________ (name and address);    (3)    the witnesses and I have signed the will;    (4)    each page of the will has been signed by _______________________ (name and address) and numbered;    (5)    I have satisfied myself as to the identity of the testator and of the witnesses as designated above;    (6)    the witnesses met the conditions requisite to act as such according to the law under which I am acting; and    (7)    the testator has requested me to include the following statement concerning the safekeeping of the testator’s will: ____________________________________________________________________.PLACE OF EXECUTION _____________________DATE ________________________________________SIGNATURE _________________________________ and, if necessary, SEAL”.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-606 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-606 - Certificate -- Effect

    (a)    In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the certificate of an authorized person under § 4–605 of this subtitle is conclusive of the formal validity of the instrument as a will under this subtitle.    (b)    The absence or irregularity of a certificate does not affect the formal validity of a will under this subtitle.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-607 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-607 - Rules of Revocation

    An international will is subject to the ordinary rules of revocation of wills.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-608 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-608 - Derivation of Provisions and Interpretation

    (a)    Sections 4–601 through 4–607 of this subtitle derive from Annex to Convention of October 26, 1973, Providing a Uniform Law on the Form of an International Will.    (b)    In interpreting and applying this subtitle, regard shall be given to its international origin and the need for uniformity in its interpretation.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  4-609 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 4 - Wills|Subtitle 6 - Maryland International Wills Act|Section 4-609 - Authorized Person

    An individual who has been admitted to practice law before the courts of this State and who is currently licensed to do so is an authorized person under this subtitle.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  5-101 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 5 - Opening the Estate|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Section 5-101 - Scope of Title

    (a)    This subtitle is applicable to the portion of the probate proceeding which relates to the probate of a will, if any, and the grant of letters.    (b)    Probate of a will, if any, and the grant of letters, may be accomplished after filing of a petition for probate by:        (1)    Administrative probate by the register of wills as described in Subtitle 3 of this title; or        (2)    Judicial probate by the court as described in Subtitle 4 of this title.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  5-102 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 5 - Opening the Estate|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Section 5-102 - Necessity of Proceeding

    (a)    Unless it is admitted to administrative or judicial probate, or recorded as provided in § 5–504 of this title, a will is ineffective to transfer property or to nominate a personal representative.    (b)    Except for a foreign personal representative, a person may not qualify as or exercise the powers and duties of a personal representative unless the person has been appointed administratively or judicially.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  5-103 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 5 - Opening the Estate|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Section 5-103 - Venue

    (a)    The venue for administrative or judicial probate is in the county in which the decedent was domiciled at the time of death, or, if the decedent was not domiciled in Maryland, the county in which the petitioner believes the largest part in value of the property of the decedent in Maryland was located at the time of death.    (b)    (1)    For the purpose of determining venue for the administration of the estate of a decedent who was not domiciled in Maryland at the time of death, the situs of tangible personal property is its location.        (2)    (i)    The situs of intangible personal property is the location of the instrument evidencing a debt, obligation, stock, or chose in action.            (ii)    If there is no instrument, the residence of the debtor governs.        (3)    The situs of an interest in property held in trust is any county where the trustee may be sued.    (c)    (1)    Probate proceedings concerning a decedent may not be maintained in more than one county.        (2)    If a proceeding is commenced in more than one county, the court of the county where proceedings are filed first has exclusive jurisdiction to determine venue.        (3)    If proper venue is finally determined to be in another county, the proceeding, including a will, petition, or any other paper filed, shall be transferred to the proper court.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  5-104 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 5 - Opening the Estate|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Section 5-104 - Order of Right to Letters

    In granting letters in administrative or judicial probate, or in appointing a successor personal representative, or a special administrator as provided in Title 6, Subtitle 4 of this article, the court and register shall observe the following order of priority, with any person in any one of the following paragraphs considered as a class:        (1)    The personal representatives named in a will admitted to probate;        (2)    The personal representatives nominated in accordance with a power conferred in a will admitted to probate;        (3)    The surviving spouse and children of an intestate decedent, or the surviving spouse of a testate decedent;        (4)    The residuary legatees;        (5)    The children of a testate decedent who are entitled to share in the estate;        (6)    The grandchildren of the decedent who are entitled to share in the estate;        (7)    Subject to §§ 3–111 and 3–112 of this article, the parents of the decedent who are entitled to share in the estate;        (8)    The brothers and sisters of the decedent who are entitled to share in the estate;        (9)    Other relations of the decedent who apply for administration;        (10)    The largest creditor of the decedent who applies for administration;        (11)    Any other person having a pecuniary interest in the proper administration of the estate of the decedent who applies for administration; or        (12)    Any other person.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  5-105 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 5 - Opening the Estate|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Section 5-105 - Restrictions on Right to Letters

    (a)    (1)    In this section, “serious crime” means a crime that reflects adversely on an individual’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness to perform the duties of a personal representative.        (2)    “Serious crime” includes fraud, extortion, embezzlement, forgery, perjury, and theft.    (b)    Subject to § 5–104 of this subtitle, the register or court may grant letters to:        (1)    A trust company;        (2)    Any other corporation authorized by law to be a personal representative; or        (3)    Subject to subsection (c) of this section, any individual.    (c)    Letters may not be granted to a person who, at the time a determination of priority is made, has filed with the register a declaration in writing that the person renounces the right to administer or is:        (1)    Under the age of 18 years;        (2)    Mentally incompetent;        (3)    Convicted of a serious crime, unless the person shows good cause for the granting of letters;        (4)    Not a citizen of the United States unless the person is a permanent resident of the United States and is:            (i)    The spouse of the decedent;            (ii)    An ancestor of the decedent;            (iii)    A descendant of the decedent; or            (iv)    A sibling of the decedent;        (5)    A full–time judge of a court established under the laws of Maryland or the United States including a judge of an orphans’ or probate court, or a clerk of court, or a register, unless the person is the surviving spouse or is related to the decedent within the third degree; or        (6)    A nonresident of the State, unless there shall be on file with the register an irrevocable designation by the nonresident of an appropriate person who resides in the State on whom service of process may be made in the same manner and with the effect as if it were served personally in the State on the nonresident.
MD. Estates and Trusts Code Ann. §  5-106 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Estates and Trusts|Title 5 - Opening the Estate|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Section 5-106 - Appointment

    (a)    (1)    Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection and subsection (b) of this section, when there are several eligible persons in a class entitled to letters, the court or register may grant letters to one of them, or to more than one of them, as necessary or convenient for the proper administration of the estate.        (2)    Subject to § 5–105 of this subtitle, all personal representatives named in the will or nominated in accordance with a power conferred in the will are entitled to probate.    (b)    Within classes (3) through (10) of § 5–104 of this subtitle, letters may be granted to two or more persons in different classes provided that the person or class first entitled to letters consents.