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<subtitle article="gcl" title_number="24" subtitle_number="7" title_name="Maryland Commercial Receivership Act" subtitle_name="Actions Against Receiver and Termination of Receivership">
  <section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="24-701" title_number="24" title_name="Maryland Commercial Receivership Act" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Actions Against Receiver and Termination of Receivership">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A court may award to a receiver from receivership property or proceeds the reasonable and necessary fees and expenses of performing the duties and exercising the powers of the receiver.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A court may order one or more of the following persons to pay the reasonable and necessary fees and expenses of the receivership, including reasonable attorney’s fees and costs:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>A person that requested the appointment of the receiver, if the receivership does not produce sufficient funds to pay the fees and expenses; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>A person whose conduct would have justified the appointment of the receiver under § 24–201(a)(1) of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="24-702" title_number="24" title_name="Maryland Commercial Receivership Act" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Actions Against Receiver and Termination of Receivership">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A receiver is entitled to all defenses and immunities under applicable State law for an act or omission within the scope of the receiver’s appointment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A person shall receive approval from the court that appointed the receiver before taking the following actions:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>An action against the receiver personally based on an act or omission in administering receivership property; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>An action by a person other than the receiver against a professional person that has provided services to the receiver based on an act or omission in performing the services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="24-703" title_number="24" title_name="Maryland Commercial Receivership Act" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Actions Against Receiver and Termination of Receivership">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A court may remove a receiver for cause on its own motion or the motion of an interested party.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A court shall replace a receiver that dies, resigns, or is removed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>A receiver replaced under subsection (b) of this section is discharged if a court finds that a receiver that resigns or is removed, or the representative of a deceased receiver, has:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>Accounted fully for and turned over to the successor receiver all receivership property; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Filed a report of all receipts and disbursements during the service of the replaced receiver.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="d">
      <text>On the transfer of title to any receivership property, the receivership shall terminate automatically as to receivership property subject to the requirements of § 24–602 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="e">
      <text>A court may discharge a receiver and terminate the court’s administration of the receivership property if the court finds that:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>Appointment of the receiver was improvident; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The circumstances no longer warrant continuation of the receivership.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>