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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-404" title_number="5" title_name="Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Immunities and Prohibited Actions -- Businesses, Associations, and Charities">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Agent of a charitable organization” means a person who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is or was a director, officer, or employee of a charitable organization; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>On a volunteer basis, is or was providing services or performing duties on behalf of a charitable organization.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Charitable organization” means an organization, institution, association, society, or corporation that is exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Farmer” means a person, including a corporation, who engages in an activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of a farm product.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Farm product” has the meaning stated in § 10-601 of the Agriculture Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>“Glean” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To harvest or collect farm products from the fields of a farmer who grants access to the fields without charging a fee; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To distribute the farm products to needy individuals, including unemployed and low-income individuals.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a farmer is not personally liable for damages in a civil action brought against the farmer for injury to a person or property by a charitable organization or an agent of a charitable organization that the farmer permitted to glean on the farmer’s property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This section does not limit any liability that otherwise exists for willful or malicious failure to guard or warn against any dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity.</text>
  </level>
</section>
