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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-115" title_number="5" title_name="Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Limitations">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Foreign jurisdiction” means a state, other than this State, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a foreign country.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Manufacturer” means a designer, assembler, fabricator, constructor, compounder, producer, or processor of a product or its component parts.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Manufacturer” includes an individual or entity not otherwise a manufacturer that imports a product or otherwise holds itself out as a manufacturer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Product” means a tangible article, including attachments, accessories, and component parts, and accompanying labels, warnings, instructions, and packaging.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Seller” means a wholesaler, distributor, retailer, or other individual or entity other than a manufacturer that is regularly engaged in the selling of a product whether the sale is for resale by the purchaser or is for sale to or consumption by the ultimate consumer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If a cause of action against a manufacturer or seller of a product for personal injury allegedly caused by a defective product arose in a foreign jurisdiction and by the laws of that jurisdiction the cause of action may not be maintained by reason of a lapse of time, an action may not be maintained in this State, except in favor of one who is a resident of this State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This section may not be applied to a cause of action:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>That was precluded, for any period of time, from being filed before July 1, 1991 by operation of law or a court order; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For wrongful death described under Title 3, Subtitle 9 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
