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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="7-103.1" title_number="7" title_name="Administration of the Estate" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Duties of Personal Representative; Notice of Appointment">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Promptly after appointment, the personal representative of a decedent’s estate shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Make a reasonably diligent effort to ascertain the names and addresses of the decedent’s creditors; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Mail or otherwise deliver a notice to those creditors whose names and addresses the personal representative has ascertained of the time within which their claims may be presented under § 8–103(a) of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notice under this section shall be sufficient if the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to a creditor a copy of the notice required by § 7-103(b) of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The failure of a creditor to receive notice under this section shall not extend the time within which the creditor may present a claim beyond 6 months from the date of the decedent’s death.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The personal representative, individually and on behalf of the estate, is not liable for failing under this section to ascertain or notify a creditor or for giving notice to a person who is not a creditor of the decedent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
