MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                          81

(L) ALL PROVISIONS OF SUBTITLE XI NOT SPECIFI-
CALLY MENTIONED IN THIS SECTION 12-102 SHALL BE-
COME EFFECTIVE ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
ARTICLE.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new Article 93A be and
it is hereby added to the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume and 1968 Supplement), to follow immediately after
Article 93 thereof, to be entitled "Wards and Guardians" and to be
composed of: (1) Sections 164 to 168, inclusive, Section 170, Sec-
tions 175 to 213, inclusive, Sections 215 to 224, inclusive, Section 264
and Sections 274 to 276, inclusive, of Article 93 of said Code, which
sections shall be and they are hereby repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, as Sections 1 to 59, inclusive, of new Article 93A; and
(2) together with new Sections 60 and 61, which sections shall be
and they are hereby added to said new Article 93A, which amended
and new sections shall read as follows:

ARTICLE 93A

WARDS AND GUARDIANS

IN GENERAL

[164] 1. Guardian to be appointed when infant becomes entitled
to property by inherintance, etc.

Whenever land shall descend or be devised to a male or female
under the age of twenty-one years, or any such male or female shall
be entitled to a distributive share of the personal estate of any in-
testate, or to a legacy or bequest under a last will or codicil, or may
acquire any real or personal property or estate by gift or by pur-
chase, and the said male or female shall not have a guardian ap-
pointed by last will and testament, agreebly to law, the orphans'
court of the county in which such infant shall reside shall have
power to appoint a guardian to such infant until the age of twenty-
one years; and such appointment may be made at any time after the
probate of the will, or administration granted on the estate of the
deceased under whom the infant appears to be so entitled to land,
and it may be made if the court shall think proper, in the case of
personal estate, either before or after the administrator shall have
passed his account.

[165] 2. When infant acquires property by purchase or gift.

In case any infant in this State shall be entitled to personal prop-
erty by purchase or by gift, other than by last will and testament,
recorded in this State, and there be no guardian appointed to such
infant within this State, the orphans' court of the county in which
such infant shall reside shall have the right to appoint a guardian to
such infant.

[166] 3. Appointment where infant has parents living.

The orphans' court shall have the right and power to appoint a
guardian to any such infant as aforesaid, although such infant may
have a father or mother living at the time of such appointment; pro-
vided, notice be given by the court, by publication or otherwise, to