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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="17-101" title_number="17" title_name="Maryland General and Limited Power of Attorney Act" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Agent” means a person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated an agent, attorney–in–fact, or otherwise.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Agent” includes an original agent, coagent, successor agent, and a person to which an agent’s authority is delegated.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Electronic” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Electronic power of attorney” means a power of attorney containing one or more electronic signatures and executed in compliance with this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Electronic presence” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Electronic signature” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Incapacity” means the inability of an individual to manage property or business affairs because the individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Meets the grounds required for the appointment of a guardian of the property of a disabled person described in § 13–201 of this article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Missing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Detained, including incarcerated in a penal system; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Outside the United States and unable to return.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Physical presence” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Power of attorney” means a writing or other record that grants authority to an agent to act in the place of the principal, whether or not the term “power of attorney” is used.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Principal” means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Property” includes both real and personal property and any right or title in real or personal property, whether held individually or jointly and whether indivisible, beneficial, contingent, or of any other nature.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Real estate transaction” means any activity involving the transfer or creation of an estate, interest, lien, or encumbrance in real property, including rights or interests appurtenant to, and the disposition of proceeds derived from, the property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Record” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Remotely witnessed power of attorney” means a power of attorney signed by the principal under circumstances where any witness is in the electronic presence of the principal or other witness when the witness attests and signs the power of attorney.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Sign” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Statutory form power of attorney” means a power of attorney that is substantially in the same form as one of the powers of attorney set forth in Subtitle 2 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Statutory form power of attorney” does not include a power of attorney set forth in Subtitle 2 of this title in which a principal incorporates by reference one or more provisions of another writing into the section of the power of attorney entitled “Special Instructions (Optional)”.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Stocks and bonds” means evidence of ownership in or debt issued by a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, association, or similar entity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Stocks and bonds” includes stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, membership interests, mutual fund interests, money market account interests, voting trust certificates, equipment trust certificates, certificates of deposit, certificates of participation, certificates of beneficial interest, stock rights, stock warrants, and any other instruments evidencing rights of a similar character issued by or in connection with any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, association, or similar entity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“Supervising attorney” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
