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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="6.5-103" title_number="6.5" title_name="Protection of Charitable Assets" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If the Secretary of State and the Attorney General find or have reasonable grounds to believe that a person has misapplied, diverted, or wasted a charitable asset or breached a fiduciary or other legal duty in the governance, management, or administration of a charitable asset, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General may enter into a settlement agreement that includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>payment by the responsible party of the value by which the charitable asset has been diminished; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>transfer of the charitable asset to another charitable organization consistent with the charitable asset’s charitable purpose.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Attorney General may sue in the circuit court for the county in which the alleged violation occurred for an order that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>restrains the responsible party from misapplying, diverting, or wasting a charitable asset in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>secures:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>payment of the value by which the charitable asset has been diminished; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>transfer of the charitable asset to another charitable organization consistent with the charitable asset’s charitable purpose.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The remedies under this section are in addition to and do not limit the powers and duties of the Secretary of State and the Attorney General under § 6–205 of this article or § 6.5–102 of this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
