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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="15-519" 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 the sale of timber and related products pursuant to this section, the trustee shall allocate the net receipts:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To income to the extent that the amount of timber removed from the land does not exceed the rate of growth of the timber during the accounting periods in which a beneficiary has a mandatory income interest;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To principal to the extent that the amount of timber removed from the land exceeds the rate of growth of the timber or the net receipts are from the sale of standing timber;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To or between income and principal if the net receipts are from the lease of timberland or from a contract to cut timber from land owned by a trust, by determining the amount of timber removed from the land under the lease or contract and applying the rules in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>To principal to the extent that advance payments, bonuses, and other payments are not allocated pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In determining net receipts to be allocated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, a trustee shall deduct and transfer to principal a reasonable amount for depletion.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This subtitle applies whether or not a decedent or transferor was harvesting timber from the property before it became subject to the trust.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a trust owns an interest in timberland on October 1, 2001, the trustee may allocate net receipts from the sale of timber and related products 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 timberland after October 1, 2000, the trustee shall allocate net receipts from the sale of timber and related products as provided in this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
