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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="8-706" title_number="8" title_name="Real Estate Investment Trusts" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Conversions of Real Estate Investment Trusts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The conversion of an other entity to a real estate investment trust shall be completed on the later of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The formation of the real estate investment trust in accordance with this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The effectiveness of articles of conversion filed for record with the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The conversion of a real estate investment trust to an other entity shall be completed on the effectiveness of articles of conversion filed for record with the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Articles of conversion are effective on the later of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The time the Department accepts the articles of conversion for record; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The future effective time of the articles of conversion as set forth in articles of conversion that have been accepted by the Department for record.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, at the time the conversion of an other entity to a real estate investment trust is completed:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The other entity shall be converted to a real estate investment trust;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The conversion shall have the effects set forth in § 8–704 of this subtitle; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>The real estate investment trust shall be subject to all of the provisions of the Maryland REIT Law.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The existence of the real estate investment trust shall be deemed to have commenced on the date the other entity commenced its existence in the place in which the other entity was first incorporated, created, formed, or otherwise came into being.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At the time the conversion of a real estate investment trust to an other entity is completed, the conversion shall have the effects set forth in § 8–704 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
