Sec. 33-61C. Standard of care.
Montgomery County, Md., Code § 33-61C (2026)
Sec. 33-61C. Standard of care.LinkCopy Citation
A fiduciary must discharge the fiduciary’s duties regarding the retirement systems:
(a)
only in the best interest of the participants and their beneficiaries;
(b)
only to provide benefits to the participants and their beneficiaries, and defray reasonable expenses of administering the retirement systems;
(c)
with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances that a prudent person acting in a similar capacity and familiar with the same matters would use to conduct a similar enterprise with similar purposes;
(d)
by diversifying the investments of the retirement systems to minimize the risk of large losses, unless it is clearly not prudent to diversify under the circumstances;
(e)
according to a good faith interpretation of the law governing the retirement systems;
(f)
according to a good faith interpretation of the documents and instruments governing the retirement systems, if they comply with this Article.