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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="16-101" title_number="16" title_name="Maryland Uniform Transfer-on-Death (Tod) Security Registration Act" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following terms have the meanings indicated unless the context otherwise requires.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Beneficiary form” means a registration of a security which indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security on the death of the owner.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Devisee” means any person designated in a will to receive a disposition of real or personal property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Heirs” means those persons, including the surviving spouse, who are entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to the property of a decedent.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Personal representative” includes executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Property” includes both real and personal property or any interest therein and means anything that may be the subject of ownership.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Register”, including its derivatives, means to issue a certificate showing the ownership of a certificated security or, in the case of an uncertificated security, to initiate or transfer an account showing ownership of securities.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Registering entity” means a person who originates or transfers a security title by registration, and includes a broker or trust company maintaining security accounts for customers and a transfer agent or other person acting for or as an issuer of securities.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Security” means a share, participation, or other interest in property, in a business, or in an obligation of an enterprise or other issuer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Security” includes a certificated security, an uncertificated security, and a security account.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Security account” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A reinvestment account associated with a security, a securities account with a broker, a cash balance in a brokerage account, cash, interest, earnings, or dividends earned or declared on a security in an account, a reinvestment account, or a brokerage account, whether or not credited to the account before the owner’s death;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A cash balance or other property held for or due to the owner of security as a replacement for or product of an account security, whether or not credited to the account before the owner’s death; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A securities account maintained by a trust company for one or more customers.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Security account” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An account as defined in § 1–204(b)(2) of the Financial Institutions Article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A securities account held by a trust company as a fiduciary as defined in § 15–101 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Trust company” has the meaning stated in § 1-101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
