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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="15-526" title_number="15" title_name="Fiduciaries" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Principal and Income Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If a trustee makes or expects to make a principal disbursement described in this section, the trustee may transfer an appropriate amount from income to principal in one or more accounting periods to reimburse principal or to provide a reserve for future principal disbursements.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Principal disbursements to which subsection (a) applies include the following, but only to the extent that the trustee has not been and does not expect to be reimbursed by a third party:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An amount chargeable to income but paid from principal because it is unusually large, including extraordinary repairs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A capital improvement to a principal asset, whether in the form of changes to an existing asset or the construction of a new asset, including special assessments;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Disbursements made to prepare property for rental, including tenant allowances, leasehold improvements, and broker’s commissions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Periodic payments on an obligation secured by a principal asset to the extent that the amount transferred from income to principal for depreciation is less than the periodic payments; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Disbursements described in § 15–524(a)(7) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the asset whose ownership gives rise to the disbursements becomes subject to a successive income interest after an income interest ends, a trustee may continue to transfer amounts from income to principal as provided in subsection (a) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
