# Financial Institutions (GFI)

## Title 3. Banking Institutions -- Commercial Banks

### Subtitle 5. Common Trust Funds

#### Section 3-501

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Common trust fund" means a fund that a trust company maintains under this subtitle solely for the collective investment of money held by the trust company as fiduciary.

(c) "Fund plan" means a written plan for the establishment and administration of a common trust fund.

(d) "Trust company" includes a national banking association that has powers similar to those given to a trust company under the laws of this State.

(e) "Valuation date" means a date as of which a trust company determines the value of the assets in a common trust fund that it administers.

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Md. Code Ann., Fin. Inst. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)