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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="15-403" title_number="15" title_name="Fiduciaries" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in the gift instrument, an institution may appropriate for expenditure or accumulate so much of an endowment fund as the institution determines is prudent for the uses, benefits, purposes, and duration for which the endowment fund is established.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless stated otherwise in the gift instrument, the assets in an endowment fund are donor–restricted assets until appropriated for expenditure by the institution.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In making a determination to appropriate for expenditure or accumulate under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the institution shall exercise ordinary business care and prudence under the facts and circumstances prevailing at the time of the action or decision, and shall consider, if relevant, the following factors:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The duration and preservation of the endowment fund;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The purposes of the institution and the endowment fund;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>General economic conditions;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The possible effect of inflation or deflation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The expected total return from income and the appreciation of investments;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Other resources of the institution; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>The investment policy of the institution.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To limit the authority to appropriate for expenditure or accumulate under subsection (a) of this section, a gift instrument must specifically state the limitation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Terms in a gift instrument designating a gift as an endowment, or a direction or authorization in the gift instrument to use only “income”, “interest”, “dividends”, or “rents, issues, or profits”, or “to preserve the principal intact”, or words of similar import:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Create an endowment fund of permanent duration unless other language in the gift instrument limits the duration or purpose of the fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Do not otherwise limit the authority to appropriate for expenditure or accumulate under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, fair market value shall be calculated:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>If an endowment fund has existed at least 3 years, on the basis of the market value determined at least quarterly and averaged over a period of not less than 3 years immediately preceding the year in which the appropriation for expenditure is made; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If an endowment fund has existed for fewer than 3 years, for the period the endowment fund has existed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The appropriation for expenditure in any year of an amount greater than 7 percent of the fair market value of an endowment fund creates a rebuttable presumption of imprudence.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The institution shall notify the Attorney General of the appropriation for expenditure in any year of an amount greater than 7 percent of the fair market value of an endowment fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>This subsection does not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Apply to an appropriation for expenditure permitted under law other than this subtitle or by the gift instrument; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Create a presumption of prudence for an appropriation for expenditure of an amount less than or equal to 7 percent of the fair market value of the endowment fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
