Part 2 – Intestate’s Estate
Current through 2026-07-17. Source: City of Balt., Md., Ord. 26-129. Published by the Baltimore City Department of Legislative Reference.
Balt., Md., Code art. 18, § 1-6 (2026)
§ 1-6 Scope of Part.LinkCopy Citation
This Part applies to all funds which shall be paid to or received by the Director of Finance, or in any other way, or through any other person or persons, passed over and transferred to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 19-1 through 19-4 of the Baltimore City Public Local Laws.
History: Ord. 1883-088
History: Ord. 76-145
Balt., Md., Code art. 18, § 1-7 (2026)
§ 1-7 Allocation of funds.LinkCopy Citation
Funds received from an intestate’s estate:
(1)
shall be held subject to the order of the Board of School Commissioners of the City of Baltimore, in like manner as the funds derived from taxation for said purposes are held; and
(2)
are declared to be a separate and distinct revenue, to be applied to the use and support of the public schools, in addition to the annual tax levied and the annual appropriation made for that purpose.
History: Ord. 1883-088
Balt., Md., Code art. 18, § 1-8 (2026)
§ 1-8 Notice to Board.LinkCopy Citation
It shall be the duty of the Director of Finance to notify and inform the Board of School Commissioners, by a communication in writing, whenever any funds arising from the aforesaid source shall be hereafter received by him, and the amount of the same.
History: Ord. 1883-088
History: Ord. 76-145
Balt., Md., Code art. 18, § 1-9 (2026)
§ 1-9 Accounts.LinkCopy Citation
(a)In general.
Whenever said Board shall intend to apply any portion or all of the aforesaid funds, hereafter received from intestate estates, the warrant or order drawn for said funds, or any portion thereof, shall show upon its face that it is drawn upon said funds.
(b)Separate account.
It shall be the duty of the City Comptroller and the Director of Finance to keep a separate account of all receipts and disbursements for said special and specific fund.
History: Ord. 1883-088
History: Ord. 76-145
Balt., Md., Code art. 18, § 1-10 (2026)
§ 1-10 Collection of claims.LinkCopy Citation
The Mayor is authorized, upon the presentation to him of satisfactory evidence of the existence of any just and valid claim on the part of the corporation, on account of the school fund, against a certain estate, and which claim it is, in his judgment, judicious to prosecute, to employ for that purpose the services of one or more agents, and to agree with such agent or agents for such compensation to him or them as he may deem fair and reasonable, provided the said compensation shall be entirely contingent upon the recovery of the money.
Balt., Md., Code art. 18, § 1-11 to 1-15 (2026)
§§ 1-11 to 1-15LinkCopy Citation
Reserved