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<subtitle article="gle" title_number="12" subtitle_number="5" title_name="Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust" subtitle_name="Limitation of Liability">
  <section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="12-501" title_number="12" title_name="Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Limitation of Liability">
    <level label="a">
      <text>An employer may not be held liable for:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>an employee’s decision to participate in or opt out of the Program;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>the investment decisions of employees whose assets are deposited in the Program;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>the administration, investment, or investment performance of the Trust or the Program; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>the Program design or the benefits paid to Program participants.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>An employer is not a fiduciary, and may not be considered to be a fiduciary, of the Trust or the Program.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="12-502" title_number="12" title_name="Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Limitation of Liability">
    <level label="a">
      <text>The State may not be held liable for the payment of the retirement savings benefit earned by Program participants in accordance with this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>The debts, contracts, and obligations of the Board, Trust, or the Program are not the debts, contracts, and obligations of the State and neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State is pledged directly or indirectly to the payment of the debts, contracts, and obligations.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>