State or county public administrator; powers and authority

The state public administrator and the duly appointed and acting county public administrators shall have all the powers and authority of a fiduciary now or hereafter conferred by law, and shall be subject to the same obligations and liabilities in the administering of estates coming under their control by reason of their appointment as fiduciary under the provisions of this act. It is the intent of this act that all estates coming within the supervision and control of the state public administrator and the control of the duly appointed and acting county public administrators shall be administered in like manner as other estates of decedents are or may be administered, except only as herein provided.