2013 Maryland Code
CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS

• Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
• § 1-101 - Definitions [Effective October 1, 2013].
• § 1-102 - Applicability and construction of article
• § 1-103 - Short title for Titles 1 through 3
• § 1-201 - Recording or filing of charter and other documents Effective until October 1, 2013].
• § 1-202 - Recordation of charter or other document
• § 1-203 - Recording, filing, and other fees [Effective until October 1, 2013].
• § 1-204 - Organization and capitalization fee
• § 1-205 - Unrecorded and unfiled charter documents
• § 1-206 - Effect of acceptance for recording or filing
• § 1-207 - Certificate of correction
• § 1-208 - Resident agent [Effective until October 1, 2013]
• § 1-209 - Filing charter amendment on cessation of family farm.
• § 1-301 - Execution of articles
• § 1-302 - Alternative to acknowledgment and verification
• § 1-303 - Corporate acknowledgments
• § 1-304 - Affixing corporate seal
• § 1-401 - Service of process and notice
• § 1-402 - Financial accounts of Maryland corporation presumed proper
• § 1-403 - Defense of ultra vires
• § 1-404 - Improper use of corporate indication
• § 1-405 - Forfeiture of charter, revocation of permit, or injunction against business other than corporation for illegal conduct connected with organized crime
• § 1-406 - Trade names
• § 1-501 - "Entity" defined
• § 1-502 - Requirements
• § 1-503 - Prohibited language in names
• § 1-504 - Name to be distinguishable
• § 1-505 - Exclusive use of name
• § 1-506 - Foreign entities
• § 1-507 - Grandfather clause
• § 1-508 - Regulations
• § 2-101 - Purpose for which corporation may be formed; application of other statutes
• § 2-102 - Formation generally
• § 2-103 - General powers
• § 2-104 - Articles of incorporation
• § 2-105 - Charter provisions relating to capital stock
• § 2-106 - Corporate name
• § 2-107 - Reserved name
• § 2-108 - Resident agent and principal office
• § 2-109 - Organization meeting of directors; adoption of bylaws
• § 2-110 - Contents and keeping of bylaws
• § 2-111 - Books and records
• § 2-112 - Closed-end investment company; required submissions to stockholders; elimination of trading discount to net asset value
• § 2-201 - Power to issue stock and convertible securities; effect of authorization
• § 2-202 - Subscription for stock
• § 2-203 - Price and consideration for stock
• § 2-204 - Requisites to issuance
• § 2-205 - Preemptive rights
• § 2-206 - Payment for stock and convertible securities
• § 2-207 - Installment payments for stock purchased by officers, directors, or employees
• § 2-208 - Classification or reclassification of unissued stock by board
• § 2-209 - Stock ledger
• § 2-210 - Issuance of stock certificate
• § 2-211 - Contents of stock certificate
• § 2-212 - Signature and seal on certificates for stock and other securities
• § 2-213 - Lost stock certificate
• § 2-214 - Fractional shares
• § 2-215 - Liability of subscribers and holders
• § 2-216 - Prohibited acts; penalty
• § 2-301 - "Distribution" defined
• § 2-302 - Capital account
• § 2-303 - Determination of amount of stated capital and capital surplus
• § 2-304 - Application of capital surplus
• § 2-305 - Expenses of organization, reorganization, and financing
• § 2-306 - Reduction of stated capital
• § 2-307 - Articles of reduction and articles of amendment and reduction
• § 2-308 - Surplus considered capital surplus
• § 2-309 - Distributions; stock dividends and stock splits
• § 2-310 - Acquisition of own stock -- In general
• § 2-311 - Restrictions on making distributions
• § 2-312 - Liabilities of directors; contribution
• § 2-313 - Annual statement of affairs
• § 2-314 - Annual statement of affairs
• § 2-315, 2-316 - Liabilities of directors; liabilities of stockholder.
• § 2-401 - Function of directors
• § 2-402 - Number of directors
• § 2-403 - Qualifications of directors
• § 2-404 - Election and tenure of directors
• § 2-405 - Directors holding over
• § 2-406 - Removal or resignation of director
• § 2-407 - Vacancy on board
• § 2-408 - Action by directors
• § 2-409 - Meetings of directors
• § 2-410 - Dissent of director to action of board
• § 2-411 - Executive and other committees
• § 2-412 - Required and permitted officers
• § 2-413 - Election, tenure, and removal of officers
• § 2-414 - Powers and duties of officers and agents
• § 2-415 - Holding more than one office
• § 2-416 - Financial assistance to officers and employees
• § 2-417 - Liability of directors and officers is joint and several; contribution
• § 2-418 - Indemnification of directors, officers, employees, and agents
• § 2-419 - Interested director transactions
• § 2-501 - Annual meeting
• § 2-502 - Special meeting
• § 2-503 - Place of meetings
• § 2-504 - Notice; meetings; stockholder proposals
• § 2-505 - Informal action by stockholders
• § 2-506 - Quorum; voting
• § 2-507 - General right to vote; proxies
• § 2-508 - Voting by certain holders of stock
• § 2-509 - Voting of stock held by corporation
• § 2-510 - Voting trust
• § 2-511 - Record date and closing of transfer books
• § 2-512 - Stockholder's right of inspection
• § 2-513 - Additional right of inspection of stockholders of 5 percent of stock
• § 2-514 - Certification of beneficial owners of stock
• § 2-601 - General rule; exception
• § 2-602 - Power to amend charter
• § 2-603 - Charter amendment -- No stock outstanding or subscribed for
• § 2-604 - Charter amendment -- Stock outstanding or subscribed for
• § 2-605 - Charter amendment -- Minor changes in name or designation of stock classes or series
• § 2-606 - Charter amendment -- Multiple amendments
• § 2-607 - Contents of articles of amendment
• § 2-608 - Restatement of charter
• § 2-609 - Amendment and restatement of charter
• § 2-610 - Execution and filing of articles
• § 2-611 - Effect of articles
• § 2-612 - Abandonment of proposed amendment
• § 3-101 - Definitions
• § 3-102 - General rule
• § 3-103 - Consideration for stock or assets
• § 3-104 - Transfers in ordinary course of business; mortgages; share exchanges by voluntary action or agreement
• § 3-105 - Procedure
• § 3-106 - Procedure for merger of subsidiary corporation if charter of parent not amended
• § 3-107 - Filing of articles
• § 3-108 - Abandonment of proposed consolidation, merger, share exchange, or transfer of assets
• § 3-109 - Contents of articles of consolidation, merger, share exchange, or transfer
• § 3-110 - Execution of articles
• § 3-111 - Action by Department
• § 3-112 - Property certificate for assessment records
• § 3-113 - Time consolidation, merger, share exchange, or transfer effective
• § 3-114 - Effect of consolidation or merger
• § 3-115 - Effect of transfer of assets
• § 3-116 - Waiver of exemptions
• § 3-117 - Consolidations and mergers of foreign corporations
• § 3-201 - Definitions.
• § 3-202 - Right to fair value of stock
• § 3-203 - Procedure by stockholder
• § 3-204 - Effect of demand on dividend and other rights
• § 3-205 - Withdrawal of demand
• § 3-206 - Restoration of dividend and other rights
• § 3-207 - Notice and offer to stockholders
• § 3-208 - Petition for appraisal; consolidation of proceedings; joinder of objectors
• § 3-209 - Notation on stock certificate
• § 3-210 - Appraisal of fair value
• § 3-211 - Action by court on appraisers' report
• § 3-212 - Surrender of stock
• § 3-213 - Rights of successor with respect to stock
• § 3-301 - Reorganization by order of court
• § 3-302 - Sale of property or franchise under court order
• § 3-303, 3-304 - Reorganization by order of court; sale of property or franchise under court order.
• § 3-401 - General rule
• § 3-402 - Approval of voluntary dissolution -- No stock outstanding or subscribed for
• § 3-403 - Approval of voluntary dissolution -- Stock outstanding or subscribed for
• § 3-404 - Notice to creditors and employees of voluntary dissolution
• § 3-405 - Abandonment or rescission of voluntary dissolution
• § 3-406 - Articles of dissolution
• § 3-407 - Filing articles with Department; payment of taxes
• § 3-408 - Time voluntary dissolution effective
• § 3-409 - Procedure by Department after acceptance of articles
• § 3-410 - Powers of directors in voluntary dissolution
• § 3-411 - Appointment of receiver in voluntary dissolution
• § 3-412 - Distributions to stockholders in voluntary dissolution
• § 3-413 - Grounds for petition by stockholders or creditors for involuntary dissolution
• § 3-414 - Appointment of receiver in involuntary dissolution -- In general
• § 3-415 - Appointment of receiver in involuntary dissolution -- Insolvency
• § 3-416 - Appointment of officer, director, or stockholder as receiver
• § 3-417 - Certification of involuntary dissolution to Department; notice to tax collectors
• § 3-418 - Powers of receiver in voluntary and involuntary dissolution
• § 3-419 - Liability of stockholders, officers, and directors in voluntary or involuntary dissolution
• § 3-501 - Power to reinstate expired charter and extend corporate existence
• § 3-502 - Contents and execution of articles of extension
• § 3-503 - Forfeiture of charter for nonpayment of taxes or failure to file report
• § 3-504 - Notice of proclamation; effect of compliance
• § 3-505 - Correction of mistakes
• § 3-506 - Other remedies not affected
• § 3-507 - Procedure for revival of forfeited charter
• § 3-508 - Contents of articles of revival
• § 3-509 - Conditions on acceptance of articles of revival
• § 3-510 - Evidentiary effect of acceptance of articles of revival
• § 3-511 - Meeting of stockholders after revival
• § 3-512 - Effect of extension or revival
• § 3-513 - Forfeiture of charter for misuse of powers
• § 3-514 - Prohibition against doing business after forfeiture
• § 3-515 - Powers of directors on forfeiture
• § 3-516 - Appointment of receiver on forfeiture
• § 3-517 - Distributions to stockholders on forfeiture -- When number of outstanding shares known
• § 3-518 - Distributions to stockholders on forfeiture -- When number of outstanding shares unknown
• § 3-519 - Conditions on expiration of corporate existence
• § 3-520
• § 3-601 - Definitions
• § 3-602 - Business combinations -- In general
• § 3-603 - Business combinations -- Exemptions
• § 3-604 - Application of subtitle
• § 3-605 - Short title
• § 3-701 - Definitions
• § 3-702 - Voting rights
• § 3-703 - Acquiring person statement
• § 3-704 - Special meeting
• § 3-705 - Calls
• § 3-706 - Notice of meeting
• § 3-707 - Redemption rights
• § 3-708 - Status as objecting stockholders
• § 3-709 - Application
• § 3-710 - Short title
• § 3-801 - Definitions
• § 3-802 - Applicability of subtitle
• § 3-803 - Directors -- Classes
• § 3-804 - Directors -- Removal, number, and vacancy
• § 3-805 - Special meetings of stockholders
• § 4-101 - Definitions
• § 4-102 - Execution of documents
• § 4-201 - Statement of election
• § 4-202 - Required references to close corporation status
• § 4-203 - Removal of statement from charter
• § 4-301 - At least one director required initially
• § 4-302 - Election to have no board of directors
• § 4-303 - Effect of election to have no board of directors
• § 4-401 - Unanimous stockholders' agreement
• § 4-402 - Stockholders' annual meeting
• § 4-403 - Stockholders' right of inspection
• § 4-404 - Statement of affairs
• § 4-501 - Restriction on issuance or sale of stock
• § 4-502 - Certain securities and stock options prohibited
• § 4-503 - Restrictions on transfer of stock
• § 4-504 - Denial or restriction of voting rights; unanimous stockholder vote
• § 4-601 - Consolidation, merger, share exchange, or transfer of assets
• § 4-602 - Involuntary dissolution
• § 4-603 - Avoidance of dissolution by purchase of petitioner's stock
• § 4A-101 - Definitions
• § 4A-102 - Policy
• § 4A-201 - Purpose
• § 4A-202 - Formation
• § 4A-203 - Powers
• § 4A-204 - Articles of organization
• § 4A-205 - Certificate of correction
• § 4A-206 - Execution of articles and certificates
• § 4A-207 - Filing with the Department
• § 4A-208 - Name
• § 4A-209 - Reservation of name; transfer of reserved name
• § 4A-210 - Principal office and resident agent
• § 4A-211 - Conversion of partnership to limited liability company
• § 4A-212 - Conversion of individual proprietorship to limited liability company
• § 4A-213 - Effect of converting partnership to limited liability company
• § 4A-301 - Liability to third persons
• § 4A-302 - Parties to actions
• § 4A-303 - Limited liability company property
• § 4A-401 - Member as agent of company
• § 4A-402 - Operating agreement
• § 4A-403 - Voting; meetings; actions
• § 4A-404 - Unanimous consent of members
• § 4A-405 - Business transactions of member with limited liability company
• § 4A-406 - Information regarding affairs of limited liability company
• § 4A-501 - Capital contributions
• § 4A-502 - Liability for capital contribution
• § 4A-503 - Sharing of profits and losses; distributions
• § 4A-504 - Distribution in kind
• § 4A-505 - Status of creditor
• § 4A-506, 4A-507 - Distribution in kind; status of creditor.
• § 4A-601 - Admission of members
• § 4A-602 - Interest in limited liability company
• § 4A-603 - Assignment of interest
• § 4A-604 - Right of assignee to become a member
• § 4A-605 - Withdrawal of member
• § 4A-606 - Cessation of membership
• § 4A-607 - Rights of creditor
• § 4A-701 - Merger in general
• § 4A-702 - Approval of merger
• § 4A-703 - Execution and filing of articles of merger
• § 4A-704 - Abandonment
• § 4A-705 - Rights of objector
• § 4A-706 - Certificates of merger
• § 4A-707 - Property certificate
• § 4A-708 - Effective date of merger
• § 4A-709 - Effects of consummation
• § 4A-710 - Service of process
• § 4A-801 - Right of action
• § 4A-802 - Proper plaintiff
• § 4A-803 - Pleading
• § 4A-804 - Expenses
• § 4A-901 - Dissolution
• § 4A-902 - Causes of dissolution; continuation
• § 4A-903 - Judicial dissolution
• § 4A-904 - Winding up
• § 4A-905 - Effect of dissolution on authority of members
• § 4A-906 - Distribution of assets
• § 4A-907 - Articles of dissolution; articles of continuation
• § 4A-908 - Time termination effective
• § 4A-909 - Contents of articles of cancellation
• § 4A-910 - Filing articles of cancellation with Department
• § 4A-911 - Failure to pay taxes or required contributions; proclamation
• § 4A-912 - Notice of proclamation; reinstatement upon payment
• § 4A-913 - Corrective proclamation
• § 4A-914 - Effect on other laws
• § 4A-915 - Articles of reinstatement -- Filing
• § 4A-916 - Articles of reinstatement -- Contents
• § 4A-917 - Articles of reinstatement -- Conditions of acceptance
• § 4A-918 - Articles of reinstatement -- Acceptance as evidence of compliance
• § 4A-919 - Penalties for transacting business
• § 4A-920 - No bar to valid acts or defense of suit
• § 4A-921, 4A-922 - Penalties for transacting business; no bar to valid acts or defense of suit.
• § 4A-1001 - Governing law
• § 4A-1002 - Registration
• § 4A-1003 - Issuance of registration
• § 4A-1004 - Registration of name
• § 4A-1005 - Changes and amendments to registration
• § 4A-1006 - Cancellation of registration
• § 4A-1007 - Doing business without registration
• § 4A-1008 - Action by Attorney General
• § 4A-1009 - Doing business
• § 4A-1010 - Assent to State laws
• § 4A-1011 - Compliance with title is not consent to suit
• § 4A-1012 - Law governing merger -- Foreign limited liability company
• § 4A-1013 - Forfeiture of right to do business
• § 4A-1101 - Definitions.
• § 4A-1102 - Applicability.
• § 4A-1103 - Election to be benefit limited liability company; name
• § 4A-1104 - Clear references to status as benefit limited liability company
• § 4A-1105 - Termination of status.
• § 4A-1106 - Purpose of creating general or specific public benefit.
• § 4A-1107 - Duties of manager.
• § 4A-1108 - Annual benefit report.
• § 4A-1201 - Applicability of provisions to foreign and interstate commerce
• § 4A-1202 - Severability
• § 4A-1203 - Short title
• § 5-101 - Definitions
• § 5-102 - Single or multiple professions; corporate form
• § 5-103 - Powers
• § 5-104 - Limitation on activities; investments
• § 5-105 - Professional service to be performed through licensed individuals
• § 5-106 - Corporate name -- General requirements
• § 5-107 - Inclusion of stockholder's surname; exception
• § 5-108 - Certificate of authorization for use of corporate name
• § 5-109 - Issuance of stock
• § 5-110 - Statement on stock certificate
• § 5-111 - Transfer of stock
• § 5-112 - Electing to be professional corporation
• § 5-113 - Acquisition of stock upon death or disqualification of stockholder; general requirements
• § 5-114 - Acquisition of stock upon death or disqualification of stockholder; proceedings
• § 5-115 - Proceeding to determine fair value
• § 5-116 - Assessment of costs and fees in appraisal proceeding
• § 5-117 - Directors and officers
• § 5-118 - Proxy; voting trusts
• § 5-119 - Relationship with client or patient
• § 5-120 - Privileged communications
• § 5-121 - Liability for negligent or wrongful act
• § 5-122 - Merger
• § 5-123 - Cessation in rendering professional services
• § 5-124 - Proceeding to dissolve professional corporation
• § 5-125 - Foreign professional corporation
• § 5-126 - Foreign professional corporation -- Required information
• § 5-127 - Foreign professional corporation -- Revocation of certificate
• § 5-128 - Adoption of regulations
• § 5-129 - Jurisdiction not restricted; effect on standards of professional conduct
• § 5-130 - Repeal of statute by enactment
• § 5-131 - Severability
• § 5-132 - Suspension or revocation of articles of incorporation
• § 5-133 - Short title
• § 5-134 - Applicability
• § 5-201 - Application of Maryland General Corporation Law
• § 5-202 - Provisions in charter or bylaws
• § 5-203 - Calling of organization meeting
• § 5-204 - Directors as members
• § 5-205 - When membership reduced by death or resignation
• § 5-206 - Insufficient number of members present at meeting
• § 5-207 - Consolidation, merger, and transfer of assets
• § 5-208 - Dissolution or forfeiture of charter
• § 5-209 - Disposition of property of charitable or religious corporations by court
• § 5-301 - Definitions
• § 5-302 - Formation and plan of religious corporation
• § 5-303 - Acknowledgment and entry of plan in record book
• § 5-304 - Articles of incorporation
• § 5-305 - Conveyance of assets on formation of religious corporation
• § 5-306 - Trustees -- Powers
• § 5-307 - Trustees -- Duties; succession; minister
• § 5-308 - Amendment of plan or charter
• § 5-309 - Articles of amendment
• § 5-310 - Arbitration of contested election
• § 5-311 - Members may organize another church
• § 5-312 - Validation of religious corporations and unfiled, lost, or destroyed plans or articles of incorporation
• § 5-313 - Amendment of charter by special acts prohibited
• § 5-314 - Scope of part
• § 5-315 - Formation of religious corporation
• § 5-316 - Articles of incorporation
• § 5-317 - Conveyance of assets on formation of religious corporation
• § 5-318 - Powers of corporation
• § 5-319 - Succession of corporators
• § 5-320 - Amendment of charter; articles of amendment
• § 5-321 - Scope of part
• § 5-322 - Incorporation
• § 5-323 - Members
• § 5-324 - Trustees
• § 5-325 - Bylaws
• § 5-326 - Holding of property
• § 5-327 - Absence of trust clause in deeds
• § 5-328 - Assets of certain churches in Garrett County
• § 5-329 - Scope of part
• § 5-330 - Incorporation
• § 5-331 - Charters
• § 5-332 - Trustees
• § 5-333 - Scope of part; applicability of Part I
• § 5-334 - Regulation of affairs
• § 5-335 - Parish boundaries
• § 5-336 - Corporate existence and rights not impaired
• § 5-337 - Scope of part; applicability of Part I
• § 5-338 - Regulation of affairs
• § 5-401 - "Private foundation" defined
• § 5-402 - Prohibited acts
• § 5-403 - Distributions
• § 5-404 - Effect of judicial determination
• § 5-405 - Rights and powers of courts and Attorney General not impaired
• § 5-501 - Definitions
• § 5-502 - Purposes of incorporation
• § 5-503 - Who may incorporate; capital stock
• § 5-504 - Powers in general
• § 5-505 - Articles of incorporation -- Execution; contents
• § 5-506 - Articles of incorporation -- Amendment
• § 5-507 - Corporation may be converted into cooperative
• § 5-508 - Stock
• § 5-509 - Payment by subscriber before certificate of stock or membership issued
• § 5-510 - Use of term "cooperative" in corporate name
• § 5-511 - Bylaws
• § 5-512 - Management of cooperative; number and qualifications of directors
• § 5-513 - Original directors; election and term of successors
• § 5-514 - Election of directors by districts
• § 5-515 - Vacancies on board of directors
• § 5-516 - Compensation and contracts of officers and directors
• § 5-517 - Required and permitted officers
• § 5-518 - Removal of director and officer
• § 5-519 - Meetings
• § 5-520 - Quorum
• § 5-521 - Voting
• § 5-522 - Contracts with members
• § 5-523 - Membership in another cooperative
• § 5-524 - Transactions with other cooperatives
• § 5-525 - Patronage distributions
• § 5-526 - Operating on nonprofit basis
• § 5-527 - Consolidation, merger, share exchange, transfer of assets, or dissolution
• § 5-528 - Payment when another business is purchased
• § 5-529 - Audit of financial statement of cooperative handling raw agricultural products
• § 5-530 - Cooperative and marketing agreements not in restraint of trade
• § 5-531 - Application of Maryland General Corporation Law
• § 5-532 - Penalties
• § 5-5A-01 - Applicability of subtitle
• § 5-5A-02 - Definitions
• § 5-5A-03 - Incorporation of consumer or federated cooperative; permissible business activity
• § 5-5A-04 - Number required for incorporation
• § 5-5A-05 - Formation of cooperative; evidence of membership interest
• § 5-5A-06 - General powers
• § 5-5A-07 - Contents of articles of incorporation or bylaws
• § 5-5A-08 - Limitation on stock ownership; member's withdrawal or disposal of interest; classes of ownership; stock conversion; termination of nonstock voting membership
• § 5-5A-09 - Conversion of corporation into consumer cooperative; adoption of name
• § 5-5A-10 - Use of word "cooperative" in conducting business
• § 5-5A-11 - Bylaws
• § 5-5A-12 - Management of cooperative; number and qualifications of directors
• § 5-5A-13 - Original directors; election and term of successors
• § 5-5A-14 - Bylaws provision for election of directors and delegates of members
• § 5-5A-15 - Officers
• § 5-5A-16 - Removal of directors, officers, and delegates
• § 5-5A-17 - Remuneration of officers and directors
• § 5-5A-18 - Eligibility for membership
• § 5-5A-19 - Meetings; quorum
• § 5-5A-20 - Voting
• § 5-5A-21 - Amendments to articles of incorporation; action on bylaws
• § 5-5A-22 - Apportionment of net savings
• § 5-5A-23 - Auditing; annual report
• § 5-5A-24 - Consolidation, merger, transfer of assets, dissolution, or division
• § 5-5A-25 - Division
• § 5-5A-26 - Applicability of subtitle
• § 5-5A-27 - Organization of economic activity under subtitle not cause of illegality in itself
• § 5-5A-28 - Evidence of membership capital not security
• § 5-5A-29 - Applicability of general corporation law
• § 5-5A-30 - Short title
• § 5-601 - Definitions
• § 5-602 - Rules of construction
• § 5-603, 5-604
• § 5-605 - Purpose
• § 5-606 - Formation generally
• § 5-607 - Powers
• § 5-608 - Articles of incorporation
• § 5-609 - Amendment of articles of incorporation
• § 5-610 - Name
• § 5-611 - Bylaws
• § 5-612 - Districts
• § 5-613, 5-614
• § 5-615 - Members
• § 5-616 - Meetings of members
• § 5-617 - Meetings of members -- Notice
• § 5-618 - Meetings of members -- Quorum
• § 5-619 - Meetings of members -- Voting
• § 5-620, 5-621
• § 5-622 - Board of directors
• § 5-623 - Board of directors -- Election and tenure; staggering terms of office; filling vacancies
• § 5-624 - Officers
• § 5-625, 5-626
• § 5-627 - Consolidation
• § 5-628 - Merger
• § 5-629 - Effect of consolidation or merger
• § 5-630 - Conversion of corporation to cooperative
• § 5-631 - Dissolution -- Cooperatives that have not begun doing business
• § 5-632 - Dissolution -- Cooperatives that have begun doing business
• § 5-633, 5-634
• § 5-635 - Change of principal office, resident agent, or address of resident agent
• § 5-636 - Filing of articles and other corporate documents
• § 5-637 - Fees; exemption from excise and income taxes
• § 5-638 - Revenues of cooperative
• § 5-639 - Disqualification from taking acknowledgments prohibited
• § 5-640 - Disposition of property
• § 5-641 - Liens on real and personal property
• § 5-642 - Short title
• § 5-6A-01 - Transportation cooperatives
• § 5-6B-01 - Definitions
• § 5-6B-02 - Contract for initial sale of cooperative interest; public offering statements
• § 5-6B-03 - Rescission; amendments to public offering statement; failure of developer to comply with section; return of deposits; liability for misrepresentation; waiver of rights; sale of units for nonresidential purposes
• § 5-6B-04 - Warranties
• § 5-6B-05 - Notice of conversion to tenants
• § 5-6B-06 - Option to purchase
• § 5-6B-07 - Lease extension for designated households
• § 5-6B-08 - Right of local governments to first right of purchase
• § 5-6B-09 - Authority of local governments to require first right of purchase at same terms
• § 5-6B-10 - Actions by local governments to protect consumers from displacement during rental housing emergency
• § 5-6B-11 - Deposits made on sale of cooperative interests held in escrow
• § 5-6B-12 - Consumer protection standards and enforcement
• § 5-6B-13 - Cooperative interests not security or investment security
• § 5-6B-14 - Restraints of trade
• § 5-6B-15 - Applicability of general corporation law
• § 5-6B-16 - Cooperative interest deemed personal property
• § 5-6B-17 - Perfection of security interests and cooperative interests
• § 5-6B-18 - Assignment of votes
• § 5-6B-18.1 - No-impact home-based businesses
• § 5-6B-18.2 - Election related candidate signs or signs advertising questions or propositions
• § 5-6B-18.3 - Electronic transmission of notice.
• § 5-6B-18.4 - Electronic transmission of votes or proxies
• § 5-6B-18.5 - Examination and copying of books and records of cooperative housing corporations
• § 5-6B-18.6 - Fidelity insurance
• § 5-6B-19 - Statewide effect of act
• § 5-6B-20 - Applicability of act
• § 5-6C-01 - Definitions
• § 5-6C-02 - Applicability of provisions
• § 5-6C-03 - Election by corporation to become benefit corporation
• § 5-6C-04 - Termination of status as benefit corporation
• § 5-6C-05 - Reference to fact of benefit corporation status
• § 5-6C-06 - Purpose
• § 5-6C-07 - Duties of director
• § 5-6C-08 - Benefit report
• § 5-701 - Restrictions on property holdings
• § 5-702 - Assets subject to charitable or other restrictions
• § 5-703 - Restrictions on transferability of stock of radio stations
• § 6-101 to 6-157 - Banking institutions.
• § 6-201 to 6-231 - Savings and loan associations.
• § 6-301 to 6-328 - Credit unions.
• § 6-401 to 6-421 - Fraternal benefit societies
• § 6-501 to 6-513 - Insurance companies
• § 7-101 - Registration of name
• § 7-102 - Business must be permitted by laws of this State
• § 7-103 - Activities not considered intrastate business
• § 7-104 - Activities not considered intrastate, interstate, or foreign business
• § 7-105 - Assent to State laws
• § 7-201 - Exceptions to required registration and qualification
• § 7-202 - Registration to do interstate and foreign business
• § 7-203 - Qualification to do intrastate business
• § 7-204 - Certificate of registration or qualification
• § 7-205 - Maintenance and certification of resident agent, mailing address, and principal office
• § 7-206 - Statement of certain actions to be filed with Department
• § 7-207 - Foreign professional corporations
• § 7-208 - Termination of registration or qualification
• § 7-209 - Public index of names and addresses
• § 7-210 - Compliance with subtitle is not consent to suit
• § 7-301 - Failure to register or qualify -- Maintenance of suit
• § 7-302 - Failure to register or qualify -- Fines
• § 7-303 - Failure of qualified corporation to file certified statement
• § 7-304 - Failure of corporation to file required report or pay late filing penalties
• § 7-305 - Failure to comply with Subtitle 2 does not affect contracts
• § 8-101 - Definitions
• § 8-102 - Recognized entity
• § 8-103 - Construction of title
• § 8-201 - Compliance required
• § 8-202 - Declaration of trust
• § 8-203 - Classification of shares
• § 8-204 - Security for payment of taxes
• § 8-205 - Removal of trustee
• § 8-206 - Trustee committees; delegation of powers
• § 8-207 - Federal qualification by issuance of shares without consideration
• § 8-301 - Powers
• § 8-302 - Restrictions on investments and use
• § 8-303 - Voting trust
• § 8-401 - Annual report
• § 8-402 - Inspection of records
• § 8-403 - Fees
• § 8-501 - Amendment of declaration
• § 8-502 - Termination of existence
• § 8-503 - Certificate of notice.
• § 8-601 - Liabilities of trust, shareholders, and trustees
• § 8-602 - Service of process
• § 8-701 - Penalties
• § 8-801 - Short title
• § 9-101, 9-102 - Definitions; interpretation of knowledge and notice
• § 9-201, 9-202 - Rules for determining the existence of a partnership; partnership property
• § 9-301 - -- 9-309. Partner agent of partnership; conveyance of real property of the partnership; partnership bound by admission of partner; partnership charged with knowledge of or notice to partner; partnership bound by partner's wrongful act; partnership bound by partner's breach of trust; nature of partner's liability; partner by estoppel; liability of incoming partner
• § 9-401 - -- 9-406. Rules determining rights and duties of partners; partnership books; duty of partners to render information; partner accountable as a fiduciary; right to an account; continuation of partnership beyond fixed term
• § 9-501 - -- 9-505. Extent of property rights of a partner; nature of a partner's right in specific partnership property; nature of partner's interest in the partnership; assignment of partner's interest; partner's interest subject to charging order
• § 9-601 - -- 9-614. Partnership not terminated by dissolution; causes of dissolution; dissolution by decree of court; general effect of dissolution on authority of partner; right of partner to contribution from copartners after dissolution; power of partner to bind partnership to third persons after dissolution; effect of dissolution on partner's existing liability; right to wind up; rights of partners as to application of partnership property; rights where partnership is dissolved for fraud or misrepresentation; rules for distribution; liability of persons continuing the business in certain cases; rights of retiring partner or estate of deceased partner when business is continued; accrual of right to account
• § 9-701 - -- 9-704. Rules for cases not provided for in this title; construction of title; laws governing limited liability partnerships; short title
• § 9-801 - -- 9-815. Registration; certificates; recordation or filings with Department; name; reserved names; principal office; resident agent; failure to pay taxes or required contributions; proclamation; notice of proclamation; reinstatement upon payment; corrective proclamation; effect on other laws; articles of reinstatement -- filing; contents; conditions of acceptance; acceptance as evidence of compliance; penalties for transacting business; no bar to valid acts or defense of suit
• § 9-901 - -- 9-912. Governing law; registration; issuance of registration; name; changes and amendments; cancellation of registration; doing business without registration; action of Attorney General; doing business; assent to State laws; compliance with subtitle is not consent to suit; forfeiture of right to do business
• § 9-1001 - Application and termination in general
• § 9A-101 - Definitions
• § 9A-102 - Knowledge and notice
• § 9A-103 - Effect of partnership agreement; nonwaivable provisions
• § 9A-104 - Supplemental principles of law
• § 9A-105 - Execution, filing, and recording of statements
• § 9A-106 - Law governing internal relations
• § 9A-107 - Partnership subject to amendment or repeal of this title
• § 9A-201 - Partnership as entity
• § 9A-202 - Formation of partnership
• § 9A-203 - Partnership property
• § 9A-204 - When property is partnership property
• § 9A-301 - Partner agent of partnership
• § 9A-302 - Transfer of partnership property
• § 9A-303 - Statement of partnership authority
• § 9A-304 - Statement of denial
• § 9A-305 - Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct
• § 9A-306 - Partner's liability
• § 9A-307 - Actions by and against partnership and partners
• § 9A-308 - Liability of purported partner
• § 9A-401 - Partner's rights and duties
• § 9A-402 - Distributions in kind
• § 9A-403 - Partner's rights and duties with respect to information
• § 9A-404 - General standards of partner's conduct
• § 9A-405 - Actions by partnership and partners
• § 9A-406 - Continuation of partnership beyond definite term or particular undertaking
• § 9A-501 - Partner not co-owner of partnership property
• § 9A-502 - Partner's transferable interest in partnership
• § 9A-503 - Transfer of partner's transferable interest
• § 9A-504 - Partner's transferable interest subject to charging order
• § 9A-601 - Events causing partner's dissociation
• § 9A-602 - Partner's power to dissociate; wrongful dissociation
• § 9A-603 - Effect of partner's dissociation
• § 9A-701 - Purchase of dissociated partner's interest
• § 9A-702 - Dissociated partner's power to bind and liability to partnership
• § 9A-703 - Dissociated partner's liability to other persons
• § 9A-704 - Statement of dissociation
• § 9A-705 - Continued use of partnership name
• § 9A-801 - Events causing dissolution and winding up of partnership business
• § 9A-802 - Partnership continues after dissolution
• § 9A-803 - Right to wind up partnership business
• § 9A-804 - Partner's power to bind partnership after dissolution
• § 9A-805 - Statement of dissolution
• § 9A-806 - Partner's liability to other partners after dissolution
• § 9A-807 - Settlement of accounts and contributions among partners
• § 9A-901 - Merger in general
• § 9A-902 - Approval of merger
• § 9A-903 - Execution and filing of articles of merger
• § 9A-904 - Abandonment
• § 9A-905 - Rights of objector
• § 9A-906 - Certificates of merger
• § 9A-907 - Property certificate
• § 9A-908 - Effective date of merger
• § 9A-909 - Effects of consummation
• § 9A-910 - Service of process
• § 9A-1001 - Registration; certificates
• § 9A-1002 - Recordation of filings with Department
• § 9A-1003 - Name
• § 9A-1004 - Reserved names
• § 9A-1005 - Principal office; resident agent
• § 9A-1006 - Limited partnership as limited liability partnership
• § 9A-1007 - Failure to pay taxes or required contributions; proclamation
• § 9A-1008 - Notice of proclamation; reinstatement upon payment
• § 9A-1009 - Corrective proclamation
• § 9A-1010 - Effect on other laws
• § 9A-1011 - Certificate of reinstatement -- Filing
• § 9A-1012 - Certificate of reinstatement -- Contents
• § 9A-1013 - Conditions of acceptance
• § 9A-1014 - Conditions of acceptance -- Acceptance as evidence of compliance
• § 9A-1015 - Penalties for transacting business
• § 9A-1016 - No bar to valid acts or defense of suit
• § 9A-1101 - Registration
• § 9A-1102 - Issuance of registration
• § 9A-1103 - Name
• § 9A-1104 - Changes and amendments
• § 9A-1105 - Cancellation of registration
• § 9A-1106 - Doing business without registration
• § 9A-1107 - Action of Attorney General
• § 9A-1108 - Doing business
• § 9A-1109 - Assent to State laws
• § 9A-1110 - Compliance with subtitle is not consent to suit
• § 9A-1111 - Forfeiture of right to do business
• § 9A-1201 - Uniformity of application and construction
• § 9A-1202 - Short title
• § 9A-1203 - Severability clause
• § 9A-1204 - Applicability
• § 9A-1205 - Savings clause
• § 10-101 - Definitions
• § 10-102 - Name
• § 10-103 - Reservation of name
• § 10-104 - Principal office and resident agent
• § 10-105 - Records to be kept
• § 10-106 - Nature of business
• § 10-107 - Business transactions of partner with partnership
• § 10-108 - Applicability of Title 9A
• § 10-201 - Certificate of limited partnership
• § 10-202 - Amendment to certificate
• § 10-203 - Cancellation of certificate
• § 10-204 - Execution of certificates
• § 10-205 - Amendment or cancellation by judicial act
• § 10-206 - Filing with the Department
• § 10-207 - Liability for false statement in certificate
• § 10-208 - Mergers
• § 10-209 - Failure to pay taxes or required contributions; proclamation
• § 10-210 - Notice of proclamation; reinstatement upon payment
• § 10-211 - Corrective proclamation
• § 10-212 - Effect on other laws
• § 10-213 - Articles of reinstatement -- Filing
• § 10-214 - Articles of reinstatement -- Contents
• § 10-215 - Articles of reinstatement -- Conditions of acceptance
• § 10-216 - Articles of reinstatement -- Acceptance as evidence of compliance
• § 10-217 - Penalties for transacting business
• § 10-218 - No bar to valid acts or defense of suit
• § 10-301 - Admission as limited partner
• § 10-302 - Limited partnership agreements
• § 10-303 - Liability to third parties
• § 10-304 - Person erroneously believing himself limited partner
• § 10-305 - Information
• § 10-306 - Time of admission as limited partner
• § 10-401 - Admission of additional general partners
• § 10-402 - Events of withdrawal
• § 10-403 - Powers and liabilities
• § 10-404 - Contributions by general partner
• § 10-405 - Voting
• § 10-501 - Form of contribution
• § 10-502 - Liability for contribution
• § 10-503 - Sharing of profits and losses
• § 10-504 - Sharing of distributions
• § 10-601 - Interim distributions
• § 10-602 - Withdrawal of general partner
• § 10-603 - Withdrawal of limited partner
• § 10-604 - Distribution upon withdrawal
• § 10-605 - Distribution in kind
• § 10-606 - Status as creditor
• § 10-607 - Limitations on return of contributions
• § 10-608 - Liability upon return of contribution
• § 10-701 - Nature of partnership interest
• § 10-702 - Assignment of partnership interest
• § 10-703 - Right of assignee to become limited partner
• § 10-704 - Death, incompetency, insolvency, or termination of a general partner
• § 10-705 - Rights of creditor
• § 10-706 - Certificate of partnership interest
• § 10-801 - Events of dissolution
• § 10-802 - Judicial dissolution
• § 10-803 - Winding up
• § 10-804 - Distribution of assets
• § 10-805 - Registration as limited liability partnership
• § 10-901 - Law governing
• § 10-902 - Registration
• § 10-903 - Issuance of registration
• § 10-904 - Name
• § 10-905 - Changes and amendments
• § 10-906 - Cancellation of registration
• § 10-907 - Doing business without registration
• § 10-908 - Action by Attorney General
• § 10-909 - Doing business
• § 10-910 - Assent to State laws
• § 10-911 - Compliance with subtitle is not consent to suit
• § 10-912 - Law governing merger -- Foreign limited partnership
• § 10-913 - Forfeiture of right to do business
• § 10-1001 - Right of action
• § 10-1002 - Proper plaintiff
• § 10-1003 - Pleading
• § 10-1004 - Expenses
• § 10-1101 - Construction and application
• § 10-1102 - Short title
• § 10-1103 - Severability
• § 10-1104 - Effective date, extended effective date, and repeal
• § 10-1105 - Filing certificate required by § 10-1104
• § 11-101 - Definitions
• § 11-102 - Rules of interpretation
• § 11-103 - No preemption by Philanthropy Protection Act
• § 11-201 - Administration of title
• § 11-202 - Maryland Blue Sky Advisory Committee
• § 11-203 - Rules, forms, and orders
• § 11-204 - Hearings to be public
• § 11-205 - Filing of sales and advertising literature
• § 11-206 - Administrative files and opinions
• § 11-207 - Use or disclosure of information
• § 11-301 - Offers, sales, or purchases
• § 11-302 - Advisory activities
• § 11-303 - Misleading filings
• § 11-304 - Unlawful representations concerning registration, notice filing, or exemption
• § 11-305 - Senior investment protection.
• § 11-401 - Transaction of business by unregistered person unlawful
• § 11-402 - Agent required to be registered
• § 11-403 - Expiration
• § 11-404 - Agent or representative terminating connection with broker-dealer, issuer, or investment representative; beginning connection with another principal
• § 11-405 - Application; effective date of registration
• § 11-406 - Renewal registration
• § 11-407 - Filing fee
• § 11-408 - Successors
• § 11-409 - Capital and financial requirements
• § 11-410 - Surety
• § 11-411 - Post-registration provisions
• § 11-412 - Denial, revocation, or suspension of registration
• § 11-413 - Summary postponement or suspension
• § 11-414 - Cancellation of registration or application; abandonment of notice filing
• § 11-415 - Withdrawal from registration
• § 11-416 - Prerequisites to order
• § 11-417 - Fine for violation of title
• § 11-418 - Lists of registered broker-dealers and investment advisers
• § 11-501 - Registration requirement
• § 11-502 - Registration by notification
• § 11-503 - Registration by coordination
• § 11-504 - Registration by qualification
• § 11-505 - Filing of registration statement
• § 11-506 - Filing fee
• § 11-507 - Matters required to be specified in registration statement
• § 11-508 - Effective period of registration statement; withdrawal of registration statement; abandonment of registration statement
• § 11-509 - Reports by person filing registration statement
• § 11-510 - Amendment of registration statement to increase securities proposed to be offered
• § 11-511 - Denial, suspension, and revocation of registration
• § 11-512 - Summary postponement or suspension
• § 11-513 - Prerequisites to stop order
• § 11-514 - Vacation or modification of stop order
• § 11-601 - Exempt securities
• § 11-602 - Exempt transactions
• § 11-603 - Denial or revocation of exemption
• § 11-604 - Burden of proof
• § 11-701 - Investigations and subpoenas
• § 11-702 - Remedies
• § 11-703 - Civil liabilities
• § 11-704 - Judicial review of orders
• § 11-705 - Penalties
• § 11-801 - Scope of title
• § 11-802 - Appointment of attorney to receive service of process
• § 11-803 - Securities sold or disposed of before June 1, 1962
• § 11-804 - Uniformity of interpretation
• § 11-805 - Short title
• § 11-901 to 11-908 - Corporate take-over offers.
• § 12-101 - Definitions
• § 12-102 - Applicable law; tax classification; income tax exemption
• § 12-103 - Separate legal entity
• § 12-104 - Short title
• § 12-105 - Construction
• § 12-201 - Nature of statutory trust
• § 12-202 - Perpetual existence; dissolution; winding up; claims and obligations
• § 12-203 - Principal office; resident agent
• § 12-204 - Certificate of trust -- In general
• § 12-205 - Certificate of trust -- Execution, filing, recordation, etc.
• § 12-206 - Name
• § 12-207 - Governing instrument
• § 12-208 - Responsibilities of trustees
• § 12-301 - Consideration; obligations; penalties upon failure to make contribution
• § 12-302 - Liability; defenses
• § 12-303 - Beneficial interests
• § 12-304 - Indemnification
• § 12-305 - Information access
• § 12-306 - Meetings; actions; consent; affirmative vote
• § 12-401 - Trustee management; limitation on duties and liabilities of others
• § 12-402 - Trustee liability; restrictions on liability expansion or limitations in governing instrument
• § 12-403 - Indemnification
• § 12-404 - Meetings; actions; consent; affirmative vote
• § 12-405 - Investment company
• § 12-501 - Service of process; jurisdiction; attachment; seizure of certain assets
• § 12-601 - Authorization
• § 12-602 - Approval
• § 12-603 - Exchange of securities; termination or amendment of merger
• § 12-604 - Articles of merger -- Filing
• § 12-605 - Articles of merger or consolidation -- Contents
• § 12-606 - Effective date
• § 12-607 - Governing instrument
• § 12-608 - Certificates of merger or consolidation
• § 12-609 - Property certificates
• § 12-610 - Consummation of merger or consolidation
• § 12-611 - Dissolution and winding up
• § 12-701 - Authorized
• § 12-801 - Annual obligations; proclamation of forfeiture upon failure to fulfill
• § 12-802 - Notice of proclamation; cure
• § 12-803 - Correction of mistaken proclamation
• § 12-804 - Construction of subtitle with other laws
• § 12-805 - Certificate of reinstatement -- Application
• § 12-806 - Certificate of reinstatement -- Contents
• § 12-807 - Certificate of reinstatement -- Acceptance
• § 12-808 - Certificate of reinstatement -- Evidentiary effect
• § 12-809 - Violation; penalty; limitation
• § 12-810 - Survivability of contracts and legal defenses
• § 12-901 - Law governing
• § 12-902 - Registration
• § 12-903 - Name
• § 12-904 - Changes and amendments
• § 12-905 - Cancellation of registration
• § 12-906 - Doing business without registration
• § 12-907 - Action by Attorney General
• § 12-908 - Doing business
• § 12-909 - Assent to State laws
• § 12-910 - Compliance with subtitle is not consent to suit
• § 12-911 - Law governing merger
• § 12-912 - Forfeiture of right to do business