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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="24-201" title_number="24" title_name="Maryland Commercial Receivership Act" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Appointment of Receiver">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A court may appoint a receiver:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before judgment, to protect a party that demonstrates an apparent right to property that is the subject of the action, if the property or the revenue–producing potential of the property:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is being subjected to or is in danger of waste, loss, dissipation, or impairment; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Has been or is about to be the subject of a fraudulent conveyance voidable under Title 15, Subtitle 2 of this article;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After judgment, to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Carry the judgment into effect; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Preserve nonexempt property:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Pending appeal; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>When an execution has been returned unsatisfied and the owner refuses to apply the property in satisfaction of the judgment;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In an action seeking dissolution of a corporation under § 3–411 or § 3–415 of the Corporations and Associations Article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>To a receivership under § 24–103(a)(3) of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In connection with or anticipation of a foreclosure or any other enforcement of a mortgage, a mortgagee is entitled to the appointment of a receiver.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On request, a court shall appoint a receiver for the mortgaged property if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>There is a default under the mortgage; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>Appointment of a receiver is necessary to protect the property from waste, loss, transfer, dissipation, or impairment;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The mortgagor agreed in a signed record, including the mortgage or an assignment of leases and rents, to the appointment of a receiver on default;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>The owner agreed, after default and in a signed record, to the appointment of a receiver;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>The property and any other collateral held by the mortgagee are not sufficient to satisfy the secured obligation;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>The owner fails to turn over to the mortgagee proceeds or rent the mortgagee was entitled to collect; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>The holder of a subordinate lien obtains the appointment of a receiver for the property.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A court may condition appointment of a receiver without prior notice under § 24–501(b)(1) of this title, or without a prior hearing under § 24–501(b)(2) of this title, on the giving of security by the person seeking the appointment for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The payment of damages;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Reasonable attorney’s fees; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>If the court concludes that the appointment was not justified, costs incurred by any person.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the court later concludes that the appointment was justified, the court shall release the security.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
