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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="15-401" title_number="15" title_name="Fiduciaries" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Charitable purpose” means the relief of poverty, the advancement of education or religion, the promotion of health, the promotion of a governmental purpose, or any other purpose the achievement of which is beneficial to the community.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Endowment fund” means an institutional fund or part of an institutional fund that, under the terms of a gift instrument, is not wholly expendable by the institution on a current basis.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Endowment fund” does not include assets that an institution designates as an endowment fund for the use of the institution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Gift instrument” means a record, including an institutional solicitation, under which property is granted to, transferred to, or held by an institution as an institutional fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Institution” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person, other than an individual, organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, to the extent that the subdivision, agency, or instrumentality holds funds exclusively for a charitable purpose; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A trust that had both charitable and noncharitable interests, after all noncharitable interests have terminated.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Institutional fund” means a fund held by an institution exclusively for charitable purposes.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Institutional fund” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Program–related assets;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A fund held for an institution by a trustee that is not an institution; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A fund in which a beneficiary that is not an institution has an interest, other than an interest that could arise on violation or failure of the purposes of the fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Program–related asset” means an asset held by an institution primarily to accomplish a charitable purpose of the institution and not primarily for investment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.</text>
  </level>
</section>
