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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="9-401" title_number="9" title_name="Witnesses" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Foreign jurisdiction” means a state other than this State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Foreign subpoena” means a subpoena issued under authority of a court of record of a foreign jurisdiction.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Subpoena” means a document, however denominated, issued under authority of a court of record requiring a person to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Attend and give testimony at a deposition;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Produce and permit inspection and copying of designated books, documents, records, electronically stored information, or tangible things in the possession, custody, or control of the person; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Permit inspection of premises under the control of the person.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
