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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="9-102" title_number="9" title_name="Special Provisions Relating to Distribution" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A trustee appointed by will to execute a trust contained in it may decline to accept the appointment by filing a statement of renunciation with the register of the county in which the will is admitted to probate before the trustee receives property or performs an act pursuant to the trust.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Unless the will provides otherwise, the trust shall thereafter be administered as if the trustee had not been appointed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The renunciation may not be construed to release or impair the right of the person to a legacy under the will by which the person was appointed trustee, unless the legacy is expressly declared in the will to be compensation for the person’s services as trustee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Unless the will provides otherwise, in all cases not provided for in this section, a trustee may renounce or resign the trustee’s trust only in accordance with the Maryland Rules.</text>
  </level>
</section>
