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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="18-1907" title_number="18" title_name="Student Financial Assistance" subtitle_number="19" subtitle_name="Maryland 529 Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “fiduciary” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An employee of the Program or the Trust who exercises any discretionary authority or control over:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The management or administration of the Trust; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The management or disposition of the assets of the Trust; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An individual to whom the State Treasurer has delegated fiduciary duties in accordance with § 18–1905 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A fiduciary shall discharge the fiduciary’s duties with respect to the Trust:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Solely in the interest of the participants;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For the exclusive purposes of providing benefits to the participants and providing reasonable expenses of administering the Trust;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>With the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing, that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character with like aims;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>By diversifying the investments of the Trust so as to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>In accordance with the laws governing the Trust; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>In accordance with the documents and instruments governing the Trust to the extent that the documents and instruments are consistent with this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In exercising authority, control, or discretion with respect to the Trust, a fiduciary may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Use the assets of the Trust for the fiduciary’s own interest or account;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Act in a transaction involving the Trust on behalf of a person, or represent a person, if the interests of the person are adverse to the interests of the Trust or the interests of participants;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Receive any consideration for the fiduciary’s own account from a person dealing with the Trust in connection with a transaction involving the assets of the Trust; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Become an endorser or surety or, in any manner, an obligor, for money lent to or borrowed from the State Treasurer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
