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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="13-301" title_number="13" title_name="Protection of Minors, Disabled Persons, Susceptible Adults, and Older Adults" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Adult” means an individual who has attained the age of 21 years.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Broker” means a person lawfully engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities or commodities for the person’s own account or for the account of others.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Conservator” means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as general, limited, or temporary guardian of a minor’s property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Court” means a circuit court, an orphans’ court, or a court exercising the jurisdiction of an orphans’ court.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Custodial property” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any interest in property transferred to a custodian under this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The income from and proceeds of that interest in property.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Custodian” means a person so designated under § 13-309 of this subtitle or a successor or substitute custodian designated under § 13-318 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Financial institution” means a bank, trust company, savings institution, or credit union chartered and supervised under State or federal law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Legal representative” means an individual’s personal representative or conservator.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Member of the minor’s family” means the minor’s parent, stepparent, spouse, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, or aunt, whether of the whole or half blood or by adoption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Minor” means an individual who has not attained the age of 21 years.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Personal representative” means an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, or special administrator of a decedent’s estate or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Qualified minor’s trust” means a trust, including a trust created by a custodian for the use and benefit of a minor:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Of which a minor is the sole beneficiary during the minor’s lifetime; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That meets the requirements of § 2503(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations implementing that section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“State” includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Transfer” means a transaction that creates custodial property under § 13-309 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Transferor” means a person who makes a transfer under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
