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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="4-604" title_number="4" title_name="Wills" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Maryland International Wills Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The signatures required under § 4–603 of this subtitle shall be placed at the end of the will.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the will consists of more than one sheet, each sheet shall be numbered.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If a will consists of more than one sheet, each sheet shall be signed by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The testator; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>If the testator is unable to sign the testator’s name, a person signing at the direction of the testator; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>If there is no person signing at the direction of the testator, the authorized person.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The date of the will shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The date of the authorized person’s signature on the will; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Noted at the end of the will by the authorized person.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The authorized person shall ask the testator whether the testator wishes to make a declaration concerning the safekeeping of the testator’s will.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the testator responds by an express request for the safekeeping of the will, the place where the testator intends to have the will kept shall be included in the certificate described under § 4–605 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A will executed in compliance with § 4–603 of this subtitle is not invalid solely because the will does not comply with this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
