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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="5-604" title_number="5" title_name="Cemeteries" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Perpetual Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A trustee appointed under this subtitle must be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a national banking association;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a bank, as defined in the Maryland Uniform Fiduciaries Act;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a savings bank insured by a unit of the federal government;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a savings and loan association insured by a unit of the federal government; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a person who annually provides, with the trust report, the proof of a fidelity bond that meets the requirements of subsection (b) of this section from a recognized bonding institution authorized to do business in the State in an amount equal to the trust fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The fidelity bond provided under subsection (a)(5) of this section shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for the benefit of the trust account of the cemetery or its burial space owners or both;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>conditioned such that the applicant shall comply with all Maryland laws and regulations relating to trust accounts; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>subject to the approval of the Director.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A trustee may not use any perpetual care trust funds required to be held in trust in accordance with this subtitle to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>purchase an interest in any contract or agreement to which the registrant, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle, or any entity owned or under the control of a registrant, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle, or a spouse, child, parent, or sibling of a registrant or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle is a party; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>make any loan or direct or indirect investment of any kind:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to any registrant, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle or to any spouse, child, parent, or sibling of a registrant or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>to or in any entity or business operations owned or under the control of a registrant, permit holder, or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle, or a spouse, child, parent, or sibling of a registrant or any other person subject to the trust requirements of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>on or in any real property of a cemetery, or the buildings or structures appurtenant to the property; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>in any permanent improvements of a cemetery or its facilities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
