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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="11-102.1" title_number="11" title_name="Miscellaneous Rules" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Lives in being” means the lives of particular individuals in existence at the time of the creation of a nondonative property interest.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Nondonative” means given for consideration other than nominal consideration.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Property interest” means a contract, lease,  option, right of first offer, right of first refusal, right of first negotiation, or similar preemptive right relating to a right to the use, possession, transfer, or ownership of real or personal property or an interest in or appurtenant to real or personal property.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Property interest” includes a right of the type described in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph even if the right is not applicable until after another party has failed to exercise or consummate a prior right of the same type.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Property interest” does not include a property interest, power of appointment, or contract to exercise a release of a power of appointment arising out of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>A premarital or postmarital agreement;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A separation or divorce settlement;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>An election by a spouse;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>An arrangement arising out of a prospective, existing, or prior marital relationship between the parties to the relationship;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>A contract to make or not to revoke a will or trust;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>A contract to exercise or not to exercise a power of appointment;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>A transfer in satisfaction of a duty of support; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="8">
          <text>A reciprocal transfer.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The common–law rule against perpetuities as now recognized in the State does not apply to a nondonative property interest that becomes effective on or after October 1, 2007.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>For the purposes of this section, a nondonative property interest becomes effective as of the date of delivery of the property interest.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The date of delivery is presumed to be the later of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The date of the last acknowledgment of the nondonative property interest, if any; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The date stated in the document creating  the nondonative property interest.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A nondonative property interest that becomes effective on or after October 1, 2007, shall be void unless the nondonative property interest:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is not subject to the rule against perpetuities under § 11–102 of this subtitle; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is exercised or vested within the applicable period of time set forth in paragraph (2), (3), or (4) of this subsection.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A document creating a nondonative property interest that does not state a date or make reference to lives in being by which the property interest must be exercised or vested shall be void unless exercised or vested within 7 years of the effective date of the property interest.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A document creating a nondonative property interest that either expressly states a date by which the property interest shall be exercised or vested or one from which the date may be determined shall be void on the earlier of the expressed or determined date or 60 years after the effective date of the property interest.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A document creating a nondonative property interest that refers to one or more lives in being for determining the date by which the property interest shall be exercised or vested shall be void:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>If the reference is to the duration of not more than 10 identified lives in being and not more than 21 years, at the expiration of the period of time referenced; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the reference is to the duration of more than 10 identified lives in being or to identified lives in being and more than 21 years, at the expiration of 60 years.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
