Section 1-103 - Notice. - Maryland Statutes

§ 1-103. Notice.
 

(a)  First notice.-  

(1) Unless personal service or some other method of notice is expressly required in this article or by the Maryland Rules, the first notice required to be given a person is sufficient if deposited as first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the addressee at the address last known to the sender. 

(2) At the expense of the estate, the orphans' court may require or the personal representative may elect to have the first notice given by restricted delivery mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, addressed to the addressee at the address last known to the sender, with delivery restricted to the addressee. 

(b)  Subsequent notice.- A subsequent notice is sufficient if deposited as first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the same address at which the first notice was received or, after notice in writing from the addressee of a change of address, to his new address. 

(c)  Failure of notice.- If no return receipt is received apparently signed by the addressee, and there is no proof of actual notice, no action taken in a proceeding may prejudice the rights of the person entitled to notice unless proof is made by verified writing to the satisfaction of the court or register that reasonable efforts to locate the addressee and warn him of the pendency of the action have been made. 

(d)  Notice to minor or disabled person.- If the person to whom notice is sent is a minor or disabled person, and the minority or disability was not known to the sender at the time of the first notice, but was later discovered, any subsequent notice shall be sent to the judicially appointed guardian, if any, or, if none, the parent of the minor or disabled person, or other person who has assumed responsibility for the minor or disabled person. 

(e)  Waiver of notice.- A person, including a guardian or a guardian ad litem, may waive notice by a writing signed by him or his attorney and filed in the proceeding. A personal representative is not required to give notice to himself. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 93, § 1-103; 1974, ch. 11, § 2; 1977, ch. 153; 1996, ch. 417.]