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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="15-518" title_number="15" title_name="Fiduciaries" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Principal and Income Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>To the extent that a trustee accounts for receipts from an interest in minerals or other natural resources pursuant to this section, the trustee shall allocate them as follows:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>If received as nominal delay rental or nominal annual rent on a lease, a receipt shall be allocated to income;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If received from a production payment, a receipt shall be allocated:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>If and to the extent that the agreement creating the production payment provides a factor for interest or its equivalent, to income; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The balance shall be allocated to principal;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If an amount received as a royalty, shut–in–well payment, take–or–pay payment, bonus, or delay rental is more than nominal, 90% shall be allocated to principal and the balance to income; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If an amount is received from a working interest or any other interest not provided for in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection, 90% of the net amount received shall be allocated to principal and the balance to income.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An amount received on account of an interest in water that is renewable shall be allocated to income.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the water is not renewable, 90% of the amount shall be allocated to principal and the balance to income.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This subtitle applies whether or not a decedent or donor was extracting minerals, water, or other natural resources before the interest became subject to the trust.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a trust owns an interest in minerals, water, or other natural resources on October 1, 2000, the trustee may allocate receipts from the interest as provided in this subtitle or in the manner used by the trustee before October 1, 2000.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the trust acquires an interest in minerals, water, or other natural resources after October 1, 2000, the trustee shall allocate receipts from the interest as provided in this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
