PART 8. TRUST FUNDS [10250. - 10251.]

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP 8.

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Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 10250. Section 10250.

(a) Any corporation organized under the provisions of or for the purposes set forth in Part 6 (commencing with Section 10000) of this division or organized on or prior to December 31, 1979, under the provisions of or for purposes set forth in Part 3 (commencing with Section 10200) of this division, then in effect, or organized under or subject to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110), or organized under or subject to Part 4 (commencing with Section 9110), may, if authorized so to do by its articles of incorporation, establish one or more common trust funds for the purpose of furnishing investments to such corporation or to any church, parish, congregation, society, chapel, mission, religious, beneficial, charitable or educational institution affiliated with it, or to any organization, society or corporation holding funds or property for the benefit of any of the foregoing, or holding funds for the purpose of supporting a bishop, priest, religious pastor, or teacher or any building or buildings used by or owned by any of the foregoing, whether holding such funds or property as fiduciary or otherwise. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law in any way limiting the right of any of the foregoing or the officers or directors thereof, as fiduciary or otherwise, to invest funds held by them, it shall be lawful for any of the foregoing to invest any or all of their funds or property in shares or interests of such common trust fund or trust funds; provided, that, in the case of funds or property held as fiduciary, such investment is not prohibited by the wording of the will, deed or other instrument creating such fiduciary relationship. (b) The directors or trustees of any such common trust fund, or trust funds, so organized, may employ such officers or agents as they think best, define their duties, and fix their compensation. They may also appoint a trust company or bank as custodian of the trust estate and may employ an investment adviser or advisers, define their duties, and fix their compensation. Securities which constitute part or all of the trust estate may be deposited in a securities depository, as defined in Section 30004 of the Financial Code, which is licensed under Section 30200 of the Financial Code or exempted from licensing thereunder by Section 30005 or 30006 of the Financial Code, and such securities may be held by such securities depository in the manner authorized by Section 775 of the Financial Code. (c) The directors or trustees of any such common trust fund, or trust funds, shall pay ratably among the holders of shares or beneficial certificates then outstanding, semiannual dividends which shall approximately equal, in each fiscal year, the net income of the trust, or trusts. (d) The provisions of the Corporate Securities Law (Division 1 (commencing with Section 25000) of Title 4) shall not apply to the creation, administration, or termination of common trust funds created hereunder, nor to participation therein.

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 10251. Section 10251.

(a) “Educational institution,” as used in this section, means any nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 94400) or Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 94700) of Part 59 of the Education Code or organized under Part 1 (commencing with Section 9000) of this division in effect on December 31, 1979, and designated on or after January 1, 1980, as a nonprofit public benefit corporation, or organized for charitable or eleemosynary purposes under Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110) of this division, or Part 3 (commencing with Section 10200) of this division in effect on December 31, 1979, and designated on or after January 1, 1980, as a nonprofit public benefit corporation for the purpose of establishing, conducting or maintaining an institution offering courses beyond high school and issuing or conferring a diploma or for the purpose of offering or conducting private school instruction on the high school or elementary school level and any charitable trust organized for such purpose or purposes. “Educational institution,” as used in this section, also means the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and any auxiliary organization, as defined in Section 89901 of the Education Code, established for the purpose of receiving gifts, property and funds to be used for the benefit of a state college. (b) It shall be lawful for any educational institution to become a member of a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of any state for the purpose of maintaining a common trust fund or similar common fund in which nonprofit organizations may commingle their funds and property for investment and to invest any and all of its funds, whenever and however acquired, in the common fund or funds; provided that, in the case of funds or property held as fiduciary, the investment is not prohibited by the wording of the will, deed, or other instrument creating the fiduciary relationship. (c) An educational institution electing to invest in a common fund or funds under this section may elect to receive distributions from each fund in an amount not to exceed for each fiscal year the greater of the income, as determined under the Uniform Principal and Income Act, Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 16320) of Part 4 of Division 9 of the Probate Code, accrued on its interest in the fund or 10 percent of the value of its interest in the fund as of the last day of its next preceding fiscal year. The educational institution may expend the distribution or distributions for any lawful purpose notwithstanding any general or special law characterizing the distribution, or any part thereof, as principal or income; provided that, in the case of funds or property invested as fiduciary, the expenditure is not prohibited by the wording of the will, deed, or other instrument creating the fiduciary relationship. No such prohibition of expenditure shall be deemed to exist solely because a will, deed, or other instrument, whether executed or in effect before or after the effective date of this section, directs or authorizes the use of only the “income,” or “interest,” or “dividends” or “rents, issues or profits,” or contains words of similar import. (d) The Corporate Securities Law of 1968 shall not apply to the creation, administration, or termination of common trust funds authorized under this section, or to participation therein. (e) This section shall become operative on January 1, 1997.

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