REPORT TITLE:
Uniform Principal & Income Act


DESCRIPTION:
Repeals the revised uniform principal and income act (chapter
557, HRS) and establishes a new uniform principal and income act.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.1271       
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PRINCIPAL AND INCOME ACT.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended by adding
 
 2 a new chapter to be appropriately designated and to read as
 
 3 follows:
 
 4                             "CHAPTER
 
 5                 UNIFORM PRINCIPAL AND INCOME ACT
 
 6                             ARTICLE 1
 
 7                 DEFINITIONS AND FIDUCIARY DUTIES
 
 8      � -101  Short title.  This chapter may be cited as the
 
 9 Uniform Principal and Income Act.
 
10      � -102  Definitions.  In this chapter, unless the context
 
11 otherwise requires:
 
12      "Accounting period" means a calendar year unless another
 
13 twelve-month period is selected by a fiduciary.  The term
 
14 includes a portion of a calendar year or other twelve-month
 
15 period that begins when an income interest begins, or ends when
 
16 an income interest ends.
 
17      "Beneficiary" includes, in the case of a decedent's estate,
 
18 an heir and devisee and, in the case of a trust, an income
 
19 beneficiary and a remainder beneficiary.
 

 
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 1      "Fiduciary" means a personal representative or a trustee.
 
 2 The term includes an executor, administrator, successor personal
 
 3 representative, special administrator, and a person performing
 
 4 substantially the same function.
 
 5      "Income" means money or property a fiduciary receives as the
 
 6 current return from a principal asset.  The term includes a
 
 7 portion of the receipts from a sale, exchange, or liquidation of
 
 8 a principal asset, to the extent provided in article 4.
 
 9      "Income beneficiary" means a person to whom a trust's net
 
10 income is or may be payable.
 
11      "Income interest" means an income beneficiary's right to
 
12 receive all or part of the net income, whether the terms of the
 
13 trust require it to be distributed or authorize it to be
 
14 distributed in the trustee's discretion.
 
15      "Mandatory income interest" means an income beneficiary's
 
16 right to receive net income that the terms of the trust require
 
17 the fiduciary to distribute.
 
18      "Net income" means the total receipts allocated to income
 
19 during an accounting period minus the disbursements made from
 
20 income during the period.  In this definition, receipts and
 
21 disbursements include items transferred to or from income during
 
22 the period under this chapter.
 
23      "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,
 

 
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 1 estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company,
 
 2 association, joint venture, or any other legal or commercial
 
 3 entity.  The term does not include a government or governmental
 
 4 subdivision, agency, or instrumentality.
 
 5      "Principal" means property held in trust for distribution to
 
 6 a remainder beneficiary when the trust terminates.
 
 7      "Remainder beneficiary" means a person, including another
 
 8 trust, entitled to receive principal when an income interest
 
 9 ends.
 
10      "Terms of a trust" means the manifestation of the intent of
 
11 a settlor or decedent with respect to the trust, expressed in a
 
12 manner that admits of its proof in a judicial proceeding, whether
 
13 by written or spoken words or by conduct.
 
14      "Trustee" includes an original, additional, or successor
 
15 trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court.
 
16      � -103  Fiduciary duties; general principles.(a)  In
 
17 allocating receipts and disbursements to or between principal and
 
18 income, and in any matter within the scope of articles 2 and 3, a
 
19 fiduciary:
 
20      (1)  Shall administer a trust or estate in accordance with
 
21           the terms of the trust or the will, even if there is a
 
22           different provision in this chapter;
 
23      (2)  May administer a trust or estate by the exercise of a
 

 
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 1           discretionary power of administration given the
 
 2           fiduciary by the terms of the trust or the will even if
 
 3           the fiduciary exercises that power in a manner
 
 4           different from a provision of this chapter;
 
 5      (3)  Shall administer a trust or estate in accordance with
 
 6           this chapter if the terms of the trust or the will do
 
 7           not contain a different provision or do not give the
 
 8           fiduciary a discretionary power of administration; and
 
 9      (4)  Shall add a receipt or charge a disbursement to
 
10           principal to the extent that the terms of the trust and
 
11           this chapter do not provide a rule for allocating the
 
12           receipt or disbursement to or between principal and
 
13           income.
 
14      (b)  In exercising the power to adjust granted by section
 
15    -104(a), or a discretionary power of administration regarding
 
16 a matter within the scope of this chapter, whether granted by the
 
17 terms of a trust, a will, or this chapter, a fiduciary shall
 
18 administer a trust or estate impartially, based on what is fair
 
19 and reasonable to all of the beneficiaries, unless the terms of
 
20 the trust or the will clearly manifest an intention that the
 
21 fiduciary shall or may favor one or more of the beneficiaries.  A
 
22 determination in accordance with this chapter is presumed to be
 
23 fair and reasonable to all of the beneficiaries.
 

 
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 1      �   -104  Trustee's power to adjust.(a)  A trustee may
 
 2 adjust between principal and income to the extent the trustee
 
 3 considers necessary if the trustee invests and manages trust
 
 4 assets as a prudent investor, the terms of the trust describe the
 
 5 amount that may or must be distributed to a beneficiary by
 
 6 referring to the trust's income, and the trustee determines that,
 
 7 after applying the rules in section    -103(a), the trustee is
 
 8 unable to comply with the rule in section    -103(b).
 
 9      (b)  In deciding whether and to what extent to exercise the
 
10 power conferred by subsection (a), a trustee shall consider all
 
11 of the factors relevant to the trust and its beneficiaries,
 
12 including the following factors to the extent they are relevant:
 
13      (1)  The nature, purpose, and expected duration of the
 
14           trust;
 
15      (2)  The intent of the settlor;
 
16      (3)  The identity and circumstances of the beneficiaries;
 
17      (4)  The needs for liquidity, regularity of income, and
 
18           preservation and appreciation of capital;
 
19      (5)  The assets held in the trust; the extent to which they
 
20           consist of financial assets, interests in closely held
 
21           enterprises, tangible and intangible personal property,
 
22           or real property; the extent to which an asset is used
 
23           by a beneficiary; and whether an asset was purchased by
 

 
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 1           the trustee or received from the settlor;
 
 2      (6)  The net amount allocated to income under the other
 
 3           sections of this chapter and the increase or decrease
 
 4           in the value of the principal assets, which the trustee
 
 5           may estimate as to assets for which market values are
 
 6           not readily available;
 
 7      (7)  Whether and to what extent the terms of the trust give
 
 8           the trustee the power to invade principal or accumulate
 
 9           income or prohibit the trustee from invading principal
 
10           or accumulating income, and the extent to which the
 
11           trustee has exercised a power from time to time to
 
12           invade principal or accumulate income;
 
13      (8)  The actual and anticipated effect of economic
 
14           conditions on principal and income and effects of
 
15           inflation and deflation; and
 
16      (9)  The anticipated tax consequences of an adjustment.
 
17      (c)  A trustee may not make an adjustment:
 
18      (1)  That diminishes the income interest in a trust that
 
19           requires all of the income to be paid at least annually
 
20           to a surviving spouse and for which an estate tax or
 
21           gift tax marital deduction would be allowed, in whole
 
22           or in part, if the trustee did not have the power to
 
23           make the adjustment;
 

 
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 1      (2)  That reduces the actuarial value of the income interest
 
 2           in a trust to which a person transfers property with
 
 3           the intent to qualify for a gift tax exclusion;
 
 4      (3)  That changes the amount payable to a beneficiary as a
 
 5           fixed annuity or a fixed fraction of the value of the
 
 6           trust's assets;
 
 7      (4)  From any amount that is permanently set aside for
 
 8           charitable purposes under a will or the terms of a
 
 9           trust;
 
10      (5)  If possessing or exercising the power to make an
 
11           adjustment may cause an individual to be treated as the
 
12           owner of all or part of the trust for income tax
 
13           purposes, and the individual would not be treated as
 
14           the owner if the individual did not possess the power
 
15           to make an adjustment;
 
16      (6)  If possessing or exercising the power to make an
 
17           adjustment causes all or part of the trust assets to be
 
18           included for estate tax purposes in the estate of an
 
19           individual who has the power to remove a trustee or
 
20           appoint a trustee, or both, and the assets would not be
 
21           included in the estate of the individual if the
 
22           individual did not have the power to make an
 
23           adjustment;
 

 
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 1      (7)  If the trustee is a beneficiary of the trust; or
 
 2      (8)  If the trustee is not a beneficiary, but the adjustment
 
 3           would benefit the trustee directly or indirectly.
 
 4      (d)  If subsection (c)(5), (6), (7), or (8) applies to a
 
 5 trustee and there is more than one trustee, a co-trustee to whom
 
 6 the provision does not apply may make the adjustment unless the
 
 7 exercise of the power by the remaining trustee or trustees is
 
 8 clearly not permitted by the terms of the trust.
 
 9      (e)  A trustee may release the entire power conferred by
 
10 subsection (a) or may release only the power to adjust from
 
11 income to principal or the power to adjust from principal to
 
12 income if the trustee is uncertain about whether possessing or
 
13 exercising the power will cause a result described in subsection
 
14 (c)(1) through (6) or (8) or if the trustee determines that
 
15 possessing or exercising the power will or may deprive the trust
 
16 of a tax benefit or impose a tax burden not described in
 
17 subsection (c).  The release may be permanent or for a specified
 
18 period, including a period measured by the life of an individual.
 
19      (f)  Terms of a trust that limit the power of a trustee to
 
20 make an adjustment between principal and income are not contrary
 
21 to this section unless it is clear from the terms of the trust
 
22 that the terms are intended to deny the trustee the power of
 
23 adjustment conferred by subsection (a).
 

 
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 1                             ARTICLE 2
 
 2         DECEDENT'S ESTATE OR TERMINATING INCOME INTEREST
 
 3      �   -201  Determination and distribution of net income.
 
 4 After a decedent dies, in the case of an estate, or after an
 
 5 income interest in a trust ends, the following rules apply:
 
 6      (1)  A fiduciary of an estate or a terminating income
 
 7           interest shall determine the amount of net income and
 
 8           net principal receipts received from property
 
 9           specifically given to a beneficiary under the rules in
 
10           articles 3 through 5 which apply to trustees and the
 
11           rules in paragraph (5).  The fiduciary shall distribute
 
12           the net income and net principal receipts to the
 
13           beneficiary who is to receive the specific property.
 
14      (2)  A fiduciary shall determine the remaining net income of
 
15           a decedent's estate or a terminating income interest
 
16           under the rules in articles 3 through 5 which apply to
 
17           trustees and by:
 
18           (A)  Including in net income all income from property
 
19                used to discharge liabilities;
 
20           (B)  Paying from income or principal, in the
 
21                fiduciary's discretion, fees of attorneys,
 
22                accountants, and fiduciaries; court costs and
 
23                other expenses of administration; and interest on
 

 
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 1                death taxes, but the fiduciary may pay those
 
 2                expenses from income of property passing to a
 
 3                trust for which the fiduciary claims an estate tax
 
 4                marital or charitable deduction only to the extent
 
 5                that the payment of those expenses from income
 
 6                will not cause the loss of the deduction; and
 
 7           (C)  Paying from principal all other disbursements made
 
 8                or incurred in connection with the settlement of a
 
 9                decedent's estate or the winding up of a
 
10                terminating income interest, including debts,
 
11                funeral expenses, disposition of remains, family
 
12                allowances, and death taxes and related penalties
 
13                that are apportioned to the estate or terminating
 
14                income interest by the will, the terms of the
 
15                trust, or applicable law.
 
16      (3)  A fiduciary shall distribute to a beneficiary who
 
17           receives a pecuniary amount outright the amount, if
 
18           any, provided by the will, the terms of the trust, or
 
19           applicable law, from net income determined under
 
20           paragraph (2) or from principal to the extent that net
 
21           income is insufficient.  If a beneficiary is to receive
 
22           a pecuniary amount outright from a trust after an
 
23           income interest ends and no amount is provided for by
 

 
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 1           the terms of the trust or applicable law, the fiduciary
 
 2           shall distribute the amount to which the beneficiary
 
 3           would be entitled under applicable law if the pecuniary
 
 4           amount were required to be paid under a will.
 
 5      (4)  A fiduciary shall distribute the net income remaining
 
 6           after distributions required by paragraph (3) in the
 
 7           manner described in section    -202 to all other
 
 8           beneficiaries, including a beneficiary who receives a
 
 9           pecuniary amount in trust, even if the beneficiary
 
10           holds an unqualified power to withdraw assets from the
 
11           trust or other presently exercisable general power of
 
12           appointment over the trust.
 
13      (5)  A fiduciary may not reduce principal or income receipts
 
14           from property described in paragraph (1) because of a
 
15           payment described in section    -501 or    -502 to the
 
16           extent that the will, the terms of the trust, or
 
17           applicable law requires the fiduciary to make the
 
18           payment from assets other than the property or to the
 
19           extent that the fiduciary recovers or expects to
 
20           recover the payment from a third party.  The property's
 
21           net income and principal receipts are determined by
 
22           including all of the amounts the fiduciary receives or
 
23           pays with respect to the property, whether those
 

 
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 1           amounts accrued or became due before, on, or after the
 
 2           date of a decedent's death or an income interest's
 
 3           terminating event, and by making a reasonable provision
 
 4           for amounts that the fiduciary believes the estate or
 
 5           terminating income interest may become obligated to pay
 
 6           after the property is distributed.
 
 7      �   -202  Distribution to residuary and remainder
 
 8 beneficiaries.(a)  Each beneficiary described in section
 
 9    -201(4) is entitled to receive a portion of the net income
 
10 equal to the beneficiary's fractional interest in undistributed
 
11 principal assets, using values as of the distribution date.  If a
 
12 fiduciary makes more than one distribution of assets to
 
13 beneficiaries to whom this section applies, each beneficiary,
 
14 including one who does not receive part of the distribution, is
 
15 entitled, as of each distribution date, to the net income the
 
16 fiduciary has received after the date of death or terminating
 
17 event or earlier distribution date but has not distributed as of
 
18 the current distribution date.
 
19      (b)  In determining a beneficiary's share of net income, the
 
20 following rules apply:
 
21      (1)  The beneficiary is entitled to receive a portion of the
 
22           net income equal to the beneficiary's fractional
 
23           interest in the undistributed principal assets
 

 
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 1           immediately before the distribution date, including
 
 2           assets that later may be sold to meet principal
 
 3           obligations;
 
 4      (2)  The beneficiary's fractional interest in the
 
 5           undistributed principal assets must be calculated
 
 6           without regard to property specifically given to a
 
 7           beneficiary and property required to pay pecuniary
 
 8           amounts not in trust;
 
 9      (3)  The beneficiary's fractional interest in the
 
10           undistributed principal assets must be calculated on
 
11           the basis of the aggregate value of those assets as of
 
12           the distribution date without reducing the value by any
 
13           unpaid principal obligation; and
 
14      (4)  The distribution date for purposes of this section may
 
15           be the date as of which the fiduciary calculates the
 
16           value of the assets if that date is reasonably near the
 
17           date on which assets are actually distributed.
 
18       (c)  The rules in this section apply to net gain or loss
 
19 realized after the date of death or terminating event or earlier
 
20 distribution date from the disposition of a principal asset if
 
21 this section applies to the income from the asset.
 
22      (d)  If a fiduciary does not distribute all of the collected
 
23 but undistributed net income or gain to each person as of a
 

 
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 1 distribution date, the fiduciary shall maintain appropriate
 
 2 records showing the interest of each beneficiary in that net
 
 3 income or gain.
 
 4                             ARTICLE 3
 
 5       APPORTIONMENT AT BEGINNING AND END OF INCOME INTEREST
 
 6      �   -301  When right to income begins and ends.(a)  An
 
 7 income beneficiary is entitled to net income from the date on
 
 8 which the income interest begins.  An income interest begins on
 
 9 the date specified in the terms of the trust or, if no date is
 
10 specified, on the date an asset becomes subject to a trust or
 
11 successive income interest.
 
12      (b)  An asset becomes subject to a trust:
 
13      (1)  On the date it is transferred to the trust in the case
 
14           of an asset that is transferred to a trust during the
 
15           transferor's life;
 
16      (2)  On the date of a testator's death in the case of an
 
17           asset that becomes subject to a trust by reason of a
 
18           will, even if there is an intervening period of
 
19           administration of the testator's estate; or
 
20      (3)  On the date of an individual's death in the case of an
 
21           asset that is transferred to a fiduciary by a third
 
22           party because of the individual's death.
 
23      (c)  An asset becomes subject to a successive income
 

 
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 1 interest on the day after the preceding income interest ends, as
 
 2 determined under subsection (d), even if there is an intervening
 
 3 period of administration to wind up the preceding income
 
 4 interest.
 
 5      (d)  An income interest ends on the day before an income
 
 6 beneficiary dies or another terminating event occurs.  For
 
 7 purposes of this chapter, an income interest also ends on the
 
 8 last day of a period during which there is no beneficiary to whom
 
 9 a trustee may distribute income.
 
10      �   -302  Apportionment of receipts and disbursements when
 
11 decedent dies or income interest begins.(a)  An income receipt
 
12 or disbursement other than one to which section    -201(1)
 
13 applies must be allocated to principal if its due date occurs
 
14 before a decedent dies in the case of an estate or before an
 
15 income interest begins in the case of a trust or successive
 
16 income interest.
 
17      (b)  An income receipt or disbursement must be allocated to
 
18 income if its due date occurs on or after the date on which a
 
19 decedent dies or an income interest begins and it is a periodic
 
20 due date.  An income receipt or disbursement must be treated as
 
21 accruing from day to day if its due date is not periodic or it
 
22 has no due date.  The portion of the receipt or disbursement
 
23 accruing before the date on which a decedent dies or an income
 

 
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 1 interest begins must be allocated to principal and the balance
 
 2 must be allocated to income.
 
 3      (c)  An item of income or an obligation is due on the date
 
 4 on which the payor is required to make a payment.  If there is no
 
 5 stated payment date, there is no due date for the purposes of
 
 6 this chapter.  Distributions to shareholders or other owners from
 
 7 an entity to which section    -401 applies are deemed to be due
 
 8 on the date fixed by the entity for determining who is entitled
 
 9 to receive the distribution or, if no date is fixed, on the
 
10 declaration date for the distribution.  A due date is periodic
 
11 for receipts or disbursements that shall be paid at regular
 
12 intervals under a lease or an obligation to pay interest or if an
 
13 entity customarily makes distributions at regular intervals.             
 
14      �   -303  Apportionment when income interest ends.(a)  In
 
15 this section, "undistributed income" means net income received
 
16 before the date on which an income interest ends.  The term does
 
17 not include an item of income or expense that is due or accrued
 
18 or net income that has been added or is required to be added to
 
19 principal pursuant to the terms of the trust.
 
20      (b)  When a mandatory income interest ends, the trustee
 
21 shall pay to a mandatory income beneficiary who survives that
 
22 date, or the estate of a deceased mandatory income beneficiary
 
23 whose death causes the interest to end, the beneficiary's share
 

 
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 1 of the undistributed income that is not disposed of pursuant to
 
 2 the terms of the trust unless the beneficiary has an unqualified
 
 3 power to revoke more than five per cent of the trust immediately
 
 4 before the income interest ends.  In the latter case, the
 
 5 undistributed income from the portion of the trust that may be
 
 6 revoked shall be added to principal.
 
 7      (c)  When a trustee's obligation to pay a fixed annuity or a
 
 8 fixed fraction of the value of the trust's assets ends, the
 
 9 trustee shall prorate the final payment if and to the extent
 
10 required by applicable law to accomplish a purpose of the trust
 
11 or its settlor relating to income, gift, estate, or other tax
 
12 requirements.
 
13                             ARTICLE 4
 
14       ALLOCATION OF RECEIPTS DURING ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST
 
15                  PART I.  RECEIPTS FROM ENTITIES
 
16      �   -401  Character of receipts.(a)  In this section,
 
17 "entity" means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
 
18 liability company, regulated investment company, real estate
 
19 investment trust, common trust fund, and any other organization
 
20 in which a trustee has an interest other than a trust or estate
 
21 to which section    -402 applies or a business or activity to
 
22 which section    -403 applies.
 
23      (b)  Except as otherwise provided in this section, cash
 

 
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 1 received by a trustee from an entity must be allocated to income.
 
 2      (c)  Receipts from an entity which must be allocated to
 
 3 principal include:
 
 4      (1)  Property other than cash, except as otherwise provided
 
 5           in paragraph (4);
 
 6      (2)  Cash or property received in one distribution or a
 
 7           series of related distributions in exchange for part or
 
 8           all of a trust's interest in the entity;
 
 9      (3)  Cash or property received in total or partial
 
10           liquidation of the entity; and
 
11      (4)  Cash or property received from an entity that is a
 
12           regulated investment company or a real estate
 
13           investment trust if the distribution is a capital gain
 
14           dividend for federal income tax purposes.
 
15      (d)  Cash or property is received in partial liquidation:
 
16      (1)  To the extent that the entity, at or near the time of a
 
17           distribution, indicates that it is a distribution in
 
18           partial liquidation; or
 
19      (2)  If the total amount received in a distribution or
 
20           series of related distributions is greater than twenty
 
21           per cent of the entity's gross assets, as shown by the
 
22           entity's year-end financial statements immediately
 
23           preceding the initial receipt.
 

 
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 1      (e)  Cash is not received in partial liquidation, nor shall
 
 2 it be taken into account under subsection (d)(2), to the extent
 
 3 that it does not exceed the amount of income tax that a trustee
 
 4 or beneficiary is required to pay on taxable income of the entity
 
 5 that distributes the cash.
 
 6      (f)  A trustee may rely upon a statement made by an entity
 
 7 about the source or character of a distribution if the statement
 
 8 is made at or near the time of distribution by the entity's board
 
 9 of directors or other person or group of persons authorized to
 
10 exercise powers to pay money or transfer property comparable to
 
11 those of a corporation's board of directors.
 
12      �   -402  Distribution from trust or estate.  Subject to the
 
13 terms of a recipient trust, an amount received as a distribution
 
14 of income from a trust or an estate in which the trust has an
 
15 interest other than a purchased interest must be allocated to
 
16 income.  An amount received as a distribution of principal from
 
17 such a trust or estate must be allocated to principal.  If a
 
18 trustee purchases an interest in a trust that is an investment
 
19 entity, or a decedent or donor transfers an interest in such a
 
20 trust to a trustee, section    -401 applies to a receipt from the
 
21 trust.
 
22      �   -403  Business and other activities conducted by
 
23 trustee.(a)  If a trustee who conducts a business or other
 

 
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 1 activity determines that it is in the best interest of all the
 
 2 beneficiaries to account separately for the business or activity
 
 3 instead of accounting for it as part of the trust's general
 
 4 accounting records, the trustee may maintain separate accounting
 
 5 records for its transactions, whether or not its assets are
 
 6 segregated from other trust assets.
 
 7      (b)  A trustee who accounts separately for a business or
 
 8 other activity may determine the extent to which its net cash
 
 9 receipts must be retained for working capital, the acquisition or
 
10 replacement of fixed assets, or other reasonably foreseeable
 
11 needs of the business or activity, and the extent to which the
 
12 remaining net cash receipts are accounted for as principal or
 
13 income in the trust's general accounting records.  If a trustee
 
14 sells assets of the business or other activity, other than in the
 
15 ordinary course of the business or activity, the trustee shall
 
16 account for the net amount received as principal in the trust's
 
17 general accounting records to the extent the trustee determines
 
18 that the amount received is no longer required in the conduct of
 
19 the business.
 
20      (c)  Activities for which the trustee may maintain separate
 
21 accounting records include:
 
22      (1)  Retail, manufacturing, service, and other traditional
 
23           business activities;
 

 
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 1      (2)  Farming;
 
 2      (3)  Raising and selling livestock and other animals;
 
 3      (4)  Management of rental properties;
 
 4      (5)  Extraction of minerals and other natural resources;
 
 5      (6)  Timber operations; and
 
 6      (7)  Activities to which section    -426 applies.
 
 7            PART II.  RECEIPTS NOT NORMALLY APPORTIONED
 
 8      �   -410  Principal receipts.  The following must be
 
 9 allocated to principal:
 
10      (1)  To the extent not allocated to income under this
 
11           chapter, assets received from a:
 
12           (A)  Transferor during the transferor's lifetime;
 
13           (B)  Decedent's estate;
 
14           (C)  Trust with a terminating income interest; or
 
15           (D)  Payor pursuant to a contract naming the trust or
 
16                its trustee as beneficiary;
 
17      (2)  Cash or other property received from the sale,
 
18           exchange, liquidation, or change in form of a principal
 
19           asset, including realized profit, subject to this
 
20           article;
 
21      (3)  Amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the
 
22           trust because of disbursements described in section
 
23              -502(a)(7) or for other reasons to the extent not
 

 
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 1           based on the loss of income;
 
 2      (4)  Proceeds of property taken by eminent domain, but a
 
 3           separate award made for the loss of income with respect
 
 4           to an accounting period during which a current income
 
 5           beneficiary had a mandatory income interest shall be
 
 6           classified as income;
 
 7      (5)  Net income received in a period during which there is
 
 8           no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute
 
 9           income; and
 
10      (6)  Other receipts as provided in part III.
 
11      �   -411  Rental property.  An amount received as rent of
 
12 real or personal property, including an amount received for
 
13 cancellation or renewal of a lease, must be allocated to income.
 
14 An amount received as a refundable deposit, including a security
 
15 deposit or a deposit that is to be applied as rent for future
 
16 periods, must be added to principal and held subject to the terms
 
17 of the lease and is not available for distribution to a
 
18 beneficiary until the trustee's contractual obligations have been
 
19 satisfied with respect to that amount.
 
20      �   -412  Obligation to pay money.(a)  An amount received
 
21 as interest, whether determined at a fixed, variable, or floating
 
22 rate, on an obligation to pay money to the trustee, including an
 
23 amount received as consideration for prepaying principal, must be
 

 
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 1 allocated to income without any provision for amortization of
 
 2 premium.
 
 3      (b)  An amount received from the sale, redemption, or other
 
 4 disposition of an obligation to pay money to the trustee more
 
 5 than one year after it is purchased or acquired by the trustee,
 
 6 including an obligation whose purchase price or value when it is
 
 7 acquired is less than its value at maturity, must be allocated to
 
 8 principal.  If the obligation matures within one year after it is
 
 9 purchased or acquired by the trustee, an amount received in
 
10 excess of its purchase price or its value when acquired by the
 
11 trust must be allocated to income.
 
12      (c)  This section does not apply to obligations to which
 
13 sections    -421 through    -424,    -426, and    -427 apply.
 
14      �   -413  Insurance policies and similar contracts.(a)
 
15 Proceeds from a life insurance policy whose beneficiary is the
 
16 trust or its trustee or a policy that insures the trust or its
 
17 trustee against loss for the damage or destruction of, or loss of
 
18 title to, a principal asset must be allocated to principal.
 
19 Dividends received from an insurance policy and the proceeds of
 
20 any other contract in which the trust or its trustee is named as
 
21 beneficiary must also be allocated to principal.  This section
 
22 does not apply to a contract to which section    -421 applies.
 
23      (b)  Insurance proceeds must be allocated to income if they
 

 
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 1 are from a policy that insures the trustee against the loss of
 
 2 occupancy or other use by an income beneficiary, the loss of
 
 3 income, or, subject to section    -403, the loss of profits from
 
 4 a business.
 
 5             PART III.  RECEIPTS NORMALLY APPORTIONED
 
 6      �   -420  Insubstantial allocations not required.  If a
 
 7 trustee determines that an allocation between principal and
 
 8 income required by sections    -421 through    -424 or section
 
 9    -427 is insubstantial, the trustee may allocate the entire
 
10 receipt to principal if one of the circumstances described in
 
11 section    -104(c) does not apply to such an allocation.  This
 
12 power may be exercised by a cotrustee in the circumstances
 
13 described in section    -104(d), and it may be released for the
 
14 reasons and in the manner described in section    -104(e).  An
 
15 allocation is presumed to be insubstantial if:
 
16      (1)  The amount of the allocation would increase or decrease
 
17           an accounting period's net income, as determined before
 
18           the allocation, by less than ten per cent; or
 
19      (2)  The value of the asset producing the receipt for which
 
20           the allocation would be made is less than ten per cent
 
21           of the total value of the trust's assets at the
 
22           beginning of the accounting period.
 
23      �   -421  Deferred compensation, annuities, and similar
 

 


 

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 1 payments.(a)  This section applies to payments that a trustee
 
 2 may receive over a fixed number of years or during the life of
 
 3 one or more individuals because of services rendered or property
 
 4 transferred to the payor in exchange for future payments.  The
 
 5 payments include those made in cash or property from the payor's
 
 6 general assets or from a separate fund created by the payor,
 
 7 including a private or commercial annuity, an individual
 
 8 retirement account, and a pension, profit sharing, stock bonus,
 
 9 or stock ownership plan.  This section does not apply to payments
 
10 to which section    -422 applies.
 
11      (b)  To the extent that a payment is characterized as
 
12 interest or a dividend or a payment made in lieu of interest or a
 
13 dividend, it must be allocated to income.  The balance of the
 
14 payment and any other payment received in the same accounting
 
15 period that is not characterized as interest, a dividend, or an
 
16 equivalent payment, must be allocated to principal.
 
17      (c)  If no part of a payment is characterized as interest, a
 
18 dividend, or an equivalent payment, and all or part of the
 
19 payment is required to be made, a trustee shall allocate to
 
20 income ten per cent of the part that is required to be made
 
21 during the accounting period and the balance to principal.  If no
 
22 part of a payment is required to be made or the payment received
 
23 is the entire amount to which the trustee is entitled, the entire
 

 
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 1 payment must be allocated to principal.
 
 2      (d)  If, to obtain an estate tax marital deduction for a
 
 3 trust, a trustee must allocate more of a payment to income than
 
 4 provided for by this section, the trustee shall allocate to
 
 5 income the additional amount necessary to obtain the marital
 
 6 deduction.
 
 7      �   -422  Liquidating asset.(a)  In this section,
 
 8 "liquidating asset" means an asset whose value will diminish or
 
 9 terminate because the asset is expected to produce receipts for a
 
10 period of limited duration.  The term includes leaseholds,
 
11 patents, trademarks, copyrights, royalty rights, and rights to
 
12 receive payments during a period of more than one year under an
 
13 arrangement that does not provide for the payment of interest on
 
14 the unpaid balance.  The term does not include deferred
 
15 compensation that is subject to section    -421, natural
 
16 resources that are subject to section    -423, timber that is
 
17 subject to section    -424, an activity that is subject to
 
18 section    -426, or any asset for which the trustee establishes a
 
19 reserve for depreciation under section    -503.
 
20      (b)  A trustee shall allocate to income ten per cent of the
 
21 receipts from a liquidating asset and the balance to principal.
 
22      �   -423  Minerals, water, and other natural resources.(a)
 
23 Receipts from an interest in minerals or other natural resources
 

 
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 1 must be allocated as follows:
 
 2      (1)  If received as nominal delay rental or annual rent on a
 
 3           lease, a receipt must be allocated to income.
 
 4      (2)  If received from a production payment, a receipt must
 
 5           be allocated to income to the extent that the agreement
 
 6           creating the production payment provides a factor for
 
 7           interest or its equivalent.  The balance must be
 
 8           allocated to principal.
 
 9      (3)  If an amount received as a royalty, bonus, or delay
 
10           rental is more than nominal, ninety per cent must be
 
11           allocated to principal and the balance to income.
 
12      (4)  If an amount is received from a working interest or any
 
13           other interest not provided for in paragraph (1), (2),
 
14           or (3), ninety per cent of the net amount received must
 
15           be allocated to principal and the balance to income.
 
16      (b)  An amount received on account of an interest in water
 
17 that is renewable must be allocated to income.  If the water is
 
18 not renewable, ninety per cent of the amount must be allocated to
 
19 principal and the balance to income.
 
20      (c)  This chapter applies without regard to whether a
 
21 decedent or donor was extracting minerals, water, or other
 
22 natural resources before the interest became subject to the
 
23 trust.
 

 
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 1      (d)  If a trust owns an interest in minerals, water, or
 
 2 other natural resources on the effective date of this chapter,
 
 3 the trustee may allocate receipts from the interest as provided
 
 4 in this section or in the manner used by the trustee before the
 
 5 effective date of this chapter.  If the trust acquires an
 
 6 interest in minerals, water, or other natural resources after the
 
 7 effective date of this chapter, the trustee shall allocate
 
 8 receipts from the interest as provided in this section.
 
 9      �   -424  Timber.(a)  A trustee may account for net
 
10 receipts from the sale of timber and related products under
 
11 subsection (b) or section    -403 or, if the trustee determines
 
12 that net receipts are insubstantial, may allocate the net
 
13 receipts to principal.  The presumptions in section    -420 apply
 
14 in determining whether net receipts are insubstantial.  If a
 
15 trust owns more than one block of timber land, the trustee may
 
16 use different methods to account for net receipts from different
 
17 blocks.
 
18      (b)  If a trustee does not account under section    -403 for
 
19 net receipts from the sale of timber and related products or
 
20 allocate the net receipts to principal because they are
 
21 insubstantial, the trustee shall allocate the net receipts:
 
22      (1)  To income to the extent that the amount of timber
 
23           removed from the land does not exceed the rate of
 

 
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 1           growth of the block as a whole during the accounting
 
 2           periods in which a beneficiary has a mandatory income
 
 3           interest;
 
 4      (2)  To principal to the extent that the amount of timber
 
 5           removed from the land exceeds the block's rate of
 
 6           growth or the net receipts are from the sale of
 
 7           standing timber;
 
 8      (3)  To or between income and principal if the net receipts
 
 9           are from the lease of timber land or from a contract to
 
10           cut timber from land owned by a trust, by determining
 
11           the amount of timber removed from the land under the
 
12           lease or contract and applying the rules in paragraphs
 
13           (1) and (2); or
 
14      (4)  To principal to the extent that advance payments,
 
15           bonuses, and other payments are not allocated pursuant
 
16           to paragraph (1), (2), or (3).
 
17      (c)  In determining the net receipts from the sale of
 
18 timber, a trustee shall deduct and transfer to principal a
 
19 reasonable amount for depletion.
 
20      (d)  This chapter applies regardless of whether a decedent
 
21 or transferor was harvesting timber from the property before it
 
22 became subject to the trust.
 
23      (e)  If a trust owns an interest in timber land on the
 

 
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 1 effective date of this chapter, the trustee may allocate net
 
 2 receipts from the sale of timber and related products as provided
 
 3 in this section or in the manner used by the trustee before the
 
 4 effective date of this chapter.  If the trust acquires an
 
 5 interest in timber land after the effective date of this chapter,
 
 6 the trustee shall allocate net receipts from the sale of timber
 
 7 and related products as provided in this section.
 
 8      �   -425  Property not productive of income.(a)  If a
 
 9 marital deduction is allowed for all or part of a trust whose
 
10 assets consist substantially of property that does not provide
 
11 the surviving spouse with sufficient income from or use of the
 
12 trust assets, and if the amounts that the trustee transfers from
 
13 principal to income under section    -104 and distributes to the
 
14 spouse from principal pursuant to the terms of the trust are
 
15 insufficient to provide the spouse with the beneficial enjoyment
 
16 required to obtain the marital deduction, the spouse may require
 
17 the trustee to make property productive of income, convert
 
18 property within a reasonable time, or exercise the power
 
19 conferred by section    -104(a).  The trustee may decide which
 
20 action or combination of actions to take.
 
21      (b)  In all other cases, proceeds from the sale or other
 
22 disposition of an asset are principal without regard to the
 
23 amount of income the asset produces during any accounting period.
 

 
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 1      �   -426  Derivatives and options.(a)  In this section,
 
 2 "derivative" means a contract or financial instrument or a
 
 3 combination of contracts and financial instruments which gives a
 
 4 trust the right or obligation to participate in some or all
 
 5 changes in the price of a tangible or intangible asset or group
 
 6 of assets, or changes in a rate, an index of prices or rates, or
 
 7 other market indicator for an asset or a group of assets.
 
 8      (b)  To the extent that a trustee does not account under
 
 9 section    -403 for transactions in derivatives, receipts from
 
10 and disbursement made in connection with those transactions must
 
11 be allocated to principal.
 
12      (c)  If a trustee grants an option to buy property from the
 
13 trust, whether or not the trust owns the property when the option
 
14 is granted, grants an option that permits another person to sell
 
15 property to the trust, or acquires an option to buy property for
 
16 the trust or an option to sell an asset owned by the trust, and
 
17 the trustee or other owner of the asset is required to deliver
 
18 the asset if the option is exercised, an amount received for
 
19 granting the option must be allocated to principal, and an amount
 
20 paid to acquire the option must be paid from principal.  A gain
 
21 or loss realized upon the exercise of an option, including an
 
22 option granted to a settlor of the trust for services rendered,
 
23 must be allocated to principal.
 

 
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 1      �   -427  Asset-backed securities.(a)  In this section,
 
 2 "asset-backed security" means an asset whose value is based upon
 
 3 the right it gives the owner to receive distributions from the
 
 4 proceeds of financial assets that provide collateral for the
 
 5 security.  The term includes an asset that gives the owner the
 
 6 right to receive only the interest or other current return from
 
 7 the collateral financial assets or only the proceeds from the
 
 8 capital investment in the collateral financial assets.  It does
 
 9 not include an asset to which section    -401 or    -421 applies.
 
10      (b)  If a trust receives a payment from the interest or
 
11 other current return and the capital investment of the collateral
 
12 financial assets, the trustee shall allocate to income the
 
13 portion of a payment that the payor identifies as being from the
 
14 interest or other current return, and shall allocate the balance
 
15 of the payment to principal.
 
16      (c)  If a trust receives one or more payments in exchange
 
17 for the trust's entire interest in an asset-backed security in
 
18 one accounting period, the trustee shall allocate the payments to
 
19 principal.  If a payment is one of a series of payments that will
 
20 result in the liquidation of the trust's interest in the security
 
21 over more than one accounting period, the trustee shall allocate
 
22 ten per cent of the payment to income and the balance to
 
23 principal.
 

 
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 1                             ARTICLE 5
 
 2    ALLOCATION OF DISBURSEMENTS DURING ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST
 
 3      �   -501  Disbursements from income.  A trustee shall make
 
 4 the following disbursements from income to the extent that they
 
 5 are not disbursements to which section    -201(2)(B) or (C)
 
 6 applies:
 
 7      (1)  One-half of the regular compensation of the trustee and
 
 8           of any person providing investment advisory or
 
 9           custodial services to the trustee;
 
10      (2)  One-half of all expenses for accountings, judicial
 
11           proceedings, or other matters that involve both the
 
12           income and remainder interests;
 
13      (3)  All of the other ordinary expenses incurred in
 
14           connection with the administration, management, or
 
15           preservation of trust property and the distribution of
 
16           income, including interest, ordinary repairs, regularly
 
17           recurring taxes assessed against principal, and
 
18           expenses of a proceeding or other matter that concerns
 
19           primarily the income interest; and
 
20      (4)  Recurring premiums on insurance covering the loss of a
 
21           principal asset or the loss of income from or use of
 
22           the asset.
 
23      �   -502  Disbursements from principal.(a)  A trustee
 

 
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 1 shall make the following disbursements from principal:
 
 2      (1)  The remaining one-half of the disbursements described
 
 3           in section    -501(1) and (2);
 
 4      (2)  All of the trustee's compensation calculated on
 
 5           principal as an acceptance, distribution, or
 
 6           termination fee, and disbursements made to prepare
 
 7           property for sale;
 
 8      (3)  Payments on the principal of a trust debt;
 
 9      (4)  Expenses of a proceeding that concerns primarily
 
10           principal, including a proceeding to construe the trust
 
11           or to protect the trust or its property;
 
12      (5)  Insurance premiums paid on a policy not described in
 
13           section    -501(4) of which the trust is the owner and
 
14           beneficiary;
 
15      (6)  Estate, inheritance, and other transfer taxes,
 
16           including penalties, apportioned to the trust; and
 
17      (7)  Disbursements related to environmental matters,
 
18           including reclamation, assessing environmental
 
19           conditions, remedying and removing environmental
 
20           contamination, monitoring remedial activities and the
 
21           release of substances, preventing future releases of
 
22           substances, collecting amounts from persons liable or
 
23           potentially liable for the costs of those activities,
 

 
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 1           penalties imposed under environmental laws or
 
 2           regulations and other payments made to comply with
 
 3           those laws or regulations, statutory or common law
 
 4           claims by third parties, and defending claims based on
 
 5           environmental matters.
 
 6      (b)  If a trust owns a policy of insurance on the life of an
 
 7 individual and the trust is not the beneficiary of the policy,
 
 8 premiums paid on the policy are a distribution from principal to
 
 9 the policy beneficiary.
 
10      (c)  If a principal asset is encumbered with an obligation
 
11 that requires income from that asset to be paid directly to the
 
12 creditor, the trustee shall transfer from principal to income an
 
13 amount equal to the income paid to the creditor in reduction of
 
14 the obligation's principal balance.
 
15      �   -503  Transfers from income to principal for
 
16 depreciation.(a)  In this section, "depreciation" means a
 
17 reduction in value of a fixed asset having a useful life of more
 
18 than one year, due to wear, tear, decay, corrosion, or gradual
 
19 obsolescence.
 
20      (b)  A trustee may transfer to principal a reasonable amount
 
21 of the net cash receipts from a principal asset that is subject
 
22 to depreciation, but a transfer may not be made for depreciation:
 
23      (1)  Of that portion of real property used or available for
 

 
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 1           use by a beneficiary as a residence or of tangible
 
 2           personal property held or made available for the
 
 3           personal use or enjoyment of a beneficiary;
 
 4      (2)  During the administration of a decedent's estate; or
 
 5      (3)  Under this section if the trustee is accounting under
 
 6           section    -403 for the business or activity in which
 
 7           the asset is used.
 
 8      (c)  An amount transferred to principal need not be held as
 
 9 a separate fund.
 
10      �   -504  Transfers from income to reimburse principal.(a)
 
11 If a trustee makes or expects to make a principal disbursement
 
12 described in this section, the trustee may transfer an
 
13 appropriate amount from income to principal in one or more
 
14 accounting periods to reimburse principal or to provide a reserve
 
15 for future principal disbursements.
 
16      (b)  Principal disbursements to which subsection (a) applies
 
17 include the following, but only to the extent that the trustee
 
18 has not been and does not expect to be reimbursed by a third
 
19 party:
 
20      (1)  An amount chargeable to income but paid from principal
 
21           because it is unusually large, including extraordinary
 
22           repairs;
 
23      (2)  A capital improvement to a principal asset, whether in
 

 
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 1           the form of changes to an existing asset or the
 
 2           construction of a new asset, including special
 
 3           assessments;
 
 4      (3)  Disbursements made to prepare property for rental,
 
 5           including leasehold improvements and broker's
 
 6           commissions;
 
 7      (4)  Periodic payments on an obligation secured by a
 
 8           principal asset to the extent that the amount
 
 9           transferred from income to principal for depreciation
 
10           is less than the periodic payments; and
 
11      (5)  Disbursements described in section    -502(a)(7).
 
12      (c)  If the asset whose ownership gives rise to the
 
13 disbursements becomes subject to a successive income interest
 
14 after an income interest ends, a trustee may continue to transfer
 
15 amounts from income to principal as provided in subsection (a).
 
16      �   -505  Income taxes.(a)  A tax required to be paid by a
 
17 trustee based on receipts allocated to income must be paid from
 
18 income.
 
19      (b)  A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on
 
20 receipts allocated to principal must be paid from principal, even
 
21 if the tax is called an income tax by the taxing authority.
 
22      (c)  A tax required to be paid by a trustee on the trust's
 
23 share of an entity's taxable income must be paid proportionately:
 

 
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 1      (1)  From income to the extent that receipts from the entity
 
 2           are allocated to income; and
 
 3      (2)  From principal to the extent that:
 
 4           (A)  Receipts from the entity are allocated to
 
 5                principal; and
 
 6           (B)  The trust's share of the entity's taxable income
 
 7                exceeds the total receipts in paragraphs (1) and
 
 8                (2)(A).
 
 9      (d)  For purposes of this section, receipts allocated to
 
10 principal or income shall be reduced by the amount distributed to
 
11 a beneficiary from principal or income for which the trust
 
12 receives a deduction in calculating the tax.
 
13      �   -506  Adjustments between principal and income because
 
14 of taxes.(a)  A fiduciary may make adjustments between
 
15 principal and income to offset the shifting of economic interests
 
16 or tax benefits between income beneficiaries and remainder
 
17 beneficiaries which arise from:
 
18      (1)  Elections and decisions, other than those described in
 
19           subsection (b), that the fiduciary makes from time to
 
20           time regarding tax matters;
 
21      (2)  An income tax or any other tax that is imposed upon the
 
22           fiduciary or a beneficiary as a result of a transaction
 
23           involving or a distribution from the estate or trust;
 

 
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 1           or
 
 2      (3)  The ownership by an estate or trust of an interest in
 
 3           an entity whose taxable income, whether or not
 
 4           distributed, is includable in the taxable income of the
 
 5           estate, trust, or a beneficiary.
 
 6      (b)  If the amount of an estate tax marital deduction or
 
 7 charitable contributions deduction is reduced because a fiduciary
 
 8 deducts an amount that is paid from principal for income tax
 
 9 purposes instead of deducting it for estate tax purposes, and as
 
10 a result estate taxes paid from principal are increased and
 
11 income taxes paid by an estate, trust, or beneficiary are
 
12 decreased, each estate, trust, or beneficiary that benefits from
 
13 the decrease in income tax shall reimburse the principal from
 
14 which the increase in estate tax is paid.  The total
 
15 reimbursement shall equal the increase in the estate tax to the
 
16 extent that the principal used to pay the increase would have
 
17 qualified for a marital deduction or charitable contributions
 
18 deduction but for the payment.  The proportionate share of the
 
19 reimbursement for each estate, trust, or beneficiary whose income
 
20 taxes are reduced shall be the same as its proportionate share of
 
21 the total decrease in income tax.  An estate or trust shall
 
22 reimburse principal from income."
 
23      SECTION 2.  Section 554A-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 

 
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 1 amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
 
 2      "(c)  A trustee has the power, subject to subsections (a)
 
 3 and (b):
 
 4      (1)  To collect, hold, and retain trust assets received from
 
 5           a trustor until, in the judgment of the trustee,
 
 6           disposition of the assets should be made;
 
 7      (2)  To receive additions to the assets of the trust;
 
 8      (3)  To continue or participate in the operation of any
 
 9           business or other enterprise, and to effect
 
10           incorporation, dissolution, or other change in the form
 
11           of the organization of the business or enterprise;
 
12      (4)  To invest and reinvest trust assets in accordance with
 
13           the provisions of the trust or as provided by law;
 
14      (5)  To deposit trust funds in a bank;
 
15      (6)  To acquire or dispose of an asset, for cash or on
 
16           credit, at public or private sale; and to manage,
 
17           develop, improve, exchange, partition, change the
 
18           character of, or abandon a trust asset or any interest
 
19           therein; and to encumber, mortgage, or pledge a trust
 
20           asset for a term within or extending beyond the term of
 
21           the trust, in connection with the exercise of any power
 
22           vested in the trustee;
 
23      (7)  To make ordinary or extraordinary repairs or
 

 
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 1           alterations in buildings or other structures, to
 
 2           demolish any improvements, to raze existing or erect
 
 3           new party walls or buildings;
 
 4      (8)  To subdivide, develop, or dedicate land to public use;
 
 5           or to make or obtain the vacation of plats and adjust
 
 6           boundaries; or to adjust differences in valuation on
 
 7           exchange or partition by giving or receiving
 
 8           consideration; or to dedicate easements to public use
 
 9           without consideration;
 
10      (9)  To enter for any purpose into a lease as lessor or
 
11           lessee with or without option to purchase or renew for
 
12           a term within or extending beyond the term of the
 
13           trust;
 
14     (10)  To enter into a lease or arrangement for exploration
 
15           and removal of minerals or other natural resources or
 
16           enter into a pooling or unitization agreement;
 
17     (11)  To grant an option involving disposition of a trust
 
18           asset, or to take an option for the acquisition of any
 
19           asset;
 
20     (12)  To vote a security, in person or by general or limited
 
21           proxy;
 
22     (13)  To pay calls, assessments, and any other sums
 
23           chargeable or accruing against or on account of
 

 
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 1           securities;
 
 2     (14)  To sell or exercise stock subscription or conversion
 
 3           rights; to consent, directly or through a committee or
 
 4           other agent, to the reorganization, consolidation,
 
 5           merger, dissolution, or liquidation of a corporation or
 
 6           other business enterprise;
 
 7     (15)  To hold a security in the name of a nominee or in other
 
 8           form without disclosure of the trust, so that title to
 
 9           the security may pass by delivery, but the trustee is
 
10           liable for any act of the nominee in connection with
 
11           the stock so held;
 
12     (16)  To insure the assets of the trust against damage or
 
13           loss, and the trustee against liability with respect to
 
14           third persons;
 
15     (17)  To borrow money to be repaid from trust assets or
 
16           otherwise; to advance money for the protection of the
 
17           trust, and for all expenses, losses, and liabilities
 
18           sustained in the administration of the trust or because
 
19           of the holding or ownership of any trust assets, for
 
20           which advances with any interest the trustee has a lien
 
21           on the trust assets as against the beneficiary;
 
22     (18)  To pay or contest any claim; to settle a claim by or
 
23           against the trust by compromise, arbitration, or
 

 
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 1           otherwise; and to release, in whole or in part, any
 
 2           claim belonging to the trust to the extent that the
 
 3           claim is uncollectible;
 
 4     (19)  To pay taxes, assessments, compensation of the trustee,
 
 5           and other expenses incurred in the collection, care,
 
 6           administration, and protection of the trust;
 
 7     (20)  To allocate items of income or expense to either trust
 
 8           income or principal, as provided by chapter [557, the
 
 9           Revised]    , the Uniform Principal and Income Act,
 
10           including creation of reserves out of income for
 
11           depreciation, obsolescence, or amortization, or for
 
12           depletion in mineral or timber properties;
 
13     (21)  To pay any sum distributable to a beneficiary under
 
14           legal disability, without liability to the trustee, by
 
15           paying the sum to the beneficiary or by paying the sum
 
16           for the use of the beneficiary either to a legal
 
17           representative appointed by the court, or if none, to a
 
18           relative;
 
19     (22)  To effect distribution of money and property (that may
 
20           be made in kind on a pro rata or non-pro rata basis),
 
21           in divided or undivided interests, and to adjust
 
22           resulting differences in valuation;
 
23     (23)  To employ persons, including attorneys, auditors,
 

 
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 1           investment advisors, or agents, even if they are
 
 2           associated with the trustee, to advise or assist the
 
 3           trustee in performance of the trustee's administrative
 
 4           duties; to act without independent investigation upon
 
 5           their recommendations; and instead of acting
 
 6           personally, to employ one or more agents to perform any
 
 7           act of administration, whether or not discretionary;
 
 8     (24)  To prosecute or defend actions, claims, or proceedings
 
 9           for the protection of trust assets and of the trustee
 
10           in the performance of trustee duties; and
 
11     (25)  To execute and deliver all instruments which will
 
12           accomplish or facilitate the exercise of the powers
 
13           vested in the trustee."
 
14      SECTION 3.  Chapter 557, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
15 repealed.
 
16      SECTION 4.  This Act applies to every trust or decedent's
 
17 estate on and after the effective date of this Act except as
 
18 otherwise expressly provided in the will or terms of the trust or
 
19 in this Act.
 
20      SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
21 New statutory material is underscored.
 

 
 
 
 
 
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 1      SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
 2 
 
 3                              INTRODUCED BY:______________________