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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="14-601" title_number="14" title_name="Trusts" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Maryland Trust Decanting Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The definitions in § 14.5–103 of this article apply in this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Authorized fiduciary” means a trustee or other fiduciary, other than a settlor, who has discretion to distribute or direct a trustee to distribute all or part of the principal of the first trust to a beneficiary.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Authorized fiduciary” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A special fiduciary appointed under § 14–606 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A special needs fiduciary, as defined in § 14–610 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Charitable interest” means an interest in a trust that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is held by an identified charitable organization and makes the organization a qualified beneficiary;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Benefits only charitable organizations and, if the interest were held by an identified charitable organization, would make the organization a qualified beneficiary; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is held solely for charitable purposes and, if the interest were held by an identified charitable organization, would make the organization a qualified beneficiary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Charitable organization” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person, other than an individual, organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality that holds funds exclusively for charitable purposes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Court” means the court in this State having jurisdiction in matters relating to trusts.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Current beneficiary” means a beneficiary that, on the date the beneficiary’s qualification is determined, is a distributee or permissible distributee of trust income or principal.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Current beneficiary” includes a person who is a beneficiary solely because the person holds a presently exercisable general power of appointment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Current beneficiary” does not include a person who is a beneficiary only because the person holds a power of appointment other than a presently exercisable general power of appointment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Decanting power” means the power of an authorized fiduciary to distribute property of a first trust to one or more second trusts or to modify the terms of a first trust.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Expanded distributive discretion” means a discretionary power of distribution that is not limited to an ascertainable standard or a reasonably definite standard.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“First trust” means a trust over which an authorized fiduciary may exercise decanting power.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“First trust instrument” means the trust instrument of a first trust.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Powerholder” means a person in which a settlor creates a power of appointment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Presently exercisable power of appointment” means a power of appointment exercisable by the powerholder at the relevant time.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Presently exercisable power of appointment” includes a power of appointment exercisable only after the occurrence of a specified event, the satisfaction of an ascertainable standard, or the passage of a specified time only after:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The occurrence of the specified event;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The satisfaction of the ascertainable standard; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The passage of the specified time.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Presently exercisable power of appointment” does not include a power exercisable only at the powerholder’s death.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Reasonably definite standard” means a clearly measurable standard under which a holder of a power of distribution is legally accountable within the meaning of 26 U.S.C. § 674(b)(5)(A) and any applicable regulations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Record” means information that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Inscribed on a tangible medium; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Stored in an electronic or other medium; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Retrievable in perceivable form.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Second trust” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A first trust which has been modified under this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A trust to which a distribution of property from a first trust has or may be made under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Second trust instrument” means the trust instrument of a second trust.</text>
  </level>
</section>
