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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="10-302" title_number="10" title_name="Lawyers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Trust Money">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a lawyer or the firm of the lawyer maintains an attorney trust account in accordance with this subtitle and the Maryland Rules, the lawyer may not accept trust money.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each attorney trust account shall be maintained at an approved financial institution, as provided in the Maryland Rules.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An attorney trust account may be an interest bearing or noninterest bearing account.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An attorney trust account may be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a savings account;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a checking account;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an account that is subject to negotiable orders of withdrawal; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>any combination of these accounts.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A lawyer who deposits trust money in a noninterest bearing account is not liable for damages that relate to the loss of interest on the trust money if the deposit is made in compliance with:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the provisions of this Part I of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the applicable provisions of the Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
