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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="10-312" title_number="10" title_name="Lawyers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Trust Money">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The trustees appointed under § 10-311 of this subtitle shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>receive contributions to the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>manage the assets of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To the extent the trustees consider reimbursement proper and reasonable, the trustees may use the Fund to reimburse a person for a loss that was caused by a defalcation of a lawyer if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the lawyer caused the loss while acting for the person as an attorney at law or a fiduciary; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the person cannot recover the money under a bond.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The trustees may enforce a claim for restitution arising by subrogation, assignment, or otherwise against any person whose actions gave rise to a claim that the Fund pays.</text>
  </level>
</section>
