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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="13-901" title_number="13" title_name="Protection of Minors, Disabled Persons, Susceptible Adults, and Older Adults" subtitle_number="9">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Adverse immigration action” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Arrest or apprehension by a law enforcement officer for an alleged violation of federal immigration law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Detention or custody by the Department of Homeland Security or a federal, State, or local agency authorized or acting on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Departure from the United States under an order of removal, deportation, exclusion, voluntary departure, or expedited removal, or a stipulation of voluntary departure;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The denial, revocation, or delay of the issuance of a visa or transportation letter by the Department of State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The denial, revocation, or delay of the issuance of a parole document or reentry permit by the Department of Homeland Security; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The denial of admission or entry into the United States by the Department of Homeland Security.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Attending physician” means a physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of a parent described under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If more than one physician shares the responsibility for the treatment and care of a parent or if another physician is acting on the attending physician’s behalf, any physician described in this paragraph may act as the attending physician under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If no physician has responsibility for the treatment and care of a parent, any physician who is familiar with the parent’s medical condition may act as the attending physician under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Debilitation” means a person’s chronic and substantial inability, as a result of a physically incapacitating illness, disease, or injury, to care for the person’s dependent minor child.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Debilitated” means the state of having a debilitation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Incapacity” means a person’s chronic and substantial inability, as a result of mental impairment, to understand the nature and consequences of decisions concerning the care of the person’s dependent minor child, and a consequent inability to care for the child.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Incapacitated” means the state of having an incapacity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Standby guardian” means a person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Appointed by a court under § 13–903 of this subtitle as standby guardian of the person or property of a minor, whose authority becomes effective on the incapacity or death of the minor’s parent, or on the consent of the parent; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Designated under § 13–904 of this subtitle as standby guardian of the person or property of a minor, whose authority becomes effective on the incapacity of the minor’s parent, on the debilitation and consent of the parent, or in the event of an adverse immigration action against the parent and the consent of the parent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
