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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="5-706" title_number="5" title_name="Cemeteries" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Preneed Burial Contracts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Each trust account shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>titled “preneed trust account”; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>established by the seller in the seller’s name.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A trustee appointed under this subtitle must be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a national banking association, as defined in the Financial Institutions Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a banking institution, as defined in the Financial Institutions Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any other financial institution allowed by law to engage in the trust business; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a person who provides a fidelity bond from a recognized bonding institution in an amount equal to the trust fund and inuring to the benefit of the trust account of the cemetery or burial goods business, or the preneed buyers, or both.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A seller may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>commingle money from 2 or more preneed burial contracts; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>establish more than 1 trust account.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A trust account established under this subtitle shall be a single purpose trust.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Money in the trust account is not available to a creditor as an asset of the seller.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Money in the trust account may be withdrawn only on the combined signatures of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>2 officers of a corporate seller; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>at least 2 individuals authorized to withdraw money for an unincorporated seller.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
