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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="16-107" title_number="16" title_name="Maryland Uniform Transfer-on-Death (Tod) Security Registration Act" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>On death of a sole owner or the last to die of all multiple owners, ownership of securities registered in beneficiary form passes to the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survive all owners.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On proof of death of all owners and compliance with any applicable requirements of the registering entity, a security registered in beneficiary form may be reregistered in the name of the beneficiary or beneficiaries who survived the death of all owners.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Until division of the security after the death of all owners, multiple beneficiaries surviving the death of all owners hold their interests as tenants in common.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If no beneficiary survives the death of all owners, the security belongs to the estate of the deceased sole owner or the estate of the last to die of all multiple owners.</text>
  </level>
</section>
