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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="17-112" title_number="17" title_name="Maryland General and Limited Power of Attorney Act" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A power of attorney terminates when:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The principal dies;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The principal becomes incapacitated, if the power of attorney is not durable;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The principal revokes the power of attorney;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The power of attorney provides that it terminates;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The purpose of the power of attorney is accomplished; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The principal revokes the agent’s authority or the agent dies, becomes incapacitated, or resigns, and the power of attorney does not provide for another agent to act under the power of attorney.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An agent’s authority terminates when:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The principal revokes the authority;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The agent dies, becomes incapacitated, or resigns;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An action is filed for the dissolution or annulment of the agent’s marriage to the principal or their legal separation, unless the power of attorney otherwise provides; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The power of attorney terminates.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, an agent’s authority is exercisable until the authority terminates under subsection (b) of this section, even if there has been a lapse of time since the execution of the power of attorney.</text>
  </level>
</section>
