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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="17-401" title_number="17" title_name="Disposition of Abandoned Property" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Abandoned Property in Possession of a Museum">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Address of the lender” means the most recent address of a lender as shown on the museum’s records pertaining to property on loan from the lender.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Conservation measure” means any action taken toward the long–term preservation of property.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Conservation measure” includes examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care of property, supported by research and education.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Lender” means a person whose name appears on the records of a museum as the person legally entitled to, or claiming to be legally entitled to, property held by the museum.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Loan” means a deposit of property not accompanied by a transfer of title to that property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Museum” means an institution located in the State that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is operated by a person primarily for education, scientific, historic preservation, or aesthetic purposes; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Owns, borrows, cares for, exhibits, studies, archives, or catalogs property.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Permanent loan” means a loan of property to a museum for an indefinite period.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Property” means a tangible object under a museum’s care that has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Undocumented property” means property in the possession of a museum for which the museum cannot determine the owner by reference to the museum’s records.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Unsolicited donation” means any property that is left in the control of a museum that is from an unknown source and can be reasonably assumed to have been intended as a gift to the museum.</text>
  </level>
</section>
