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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="14.5-110" title_number="14.5" title_name="Maryland Trust Act" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="In General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Whenever notice to qualified beneficiaries of a trust is required under this title, the trustee shall also give notice to any other beneficiary that has sent the trustee a request for notice.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A charitable organization expressly designated to receive distributions under the terms of a charitable trust has the rights of a qualified beneficiary under this title if the charitable organization on the date the qualification of the charitable organization is being determined:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Would be a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal on the termination of the interests of other distributees or permissible distributees then receiving or eligible to receive distributions; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Would be a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal if the trust terminated on that date.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person appointed to enforce a trust created for the care of an animal as provided in § 14.5–407 of this title or another noncharitable purpose as provided in § 14.5–408 of this title has the rights of a qualified beneficiary under this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The State’s Attorney General has the rights of a qualified beneficiary with respect to a charitable trust having the principal place of administration of the charitable trust in this State.</text>
  </level>
</section>
