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Terms Used In Maryland Code, COMMERCIAL LAW 17-401

  • Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Address of the lender” means the most recent address of a lender as shown on the museum’s records pertaining to property on loan from the lender.

(c) (1) “Conservation measure” means any action taken toward the long-term preservation of property.

(2) “Conservation measure” includes examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care of property, supported by research and education.

(d) “Lender” means a person whose name appears on the records of a museum as the person legally entitled to, or claiming to be legally entitled to, property held by the museum.

(e) “Loan” means a deposit of property not accompanied by a transfer of title to that property.

(f) “Museum” means an institution located in the State that:

(1) Is operated by a person primarily for education, scientific, historic preservation, or aesthetic purposes; and

(2) Owns, borrows, cares for, exhibits, studies, archives, or catalogs property.

(g) “Permanent loan” means a loan of property to a museum for an indefinite period.

(h) “Property” means a tangible object under a museum’s care that has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value.

(i) “Undocumented property” means property in the possession of a museum for which the museum cannot determine the owner by reference to the museum’s records.

(j) “Unsolicited donation” means any property that is left in the control of a museum that is from an unknown source and can be reasonably assumed to have been intended as a gift to the museum.