17:9A-36. Definitions

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Definitions.

As used in this article, and except as the context otherwise requires,

(1)"Common trust fund" means a fund established and maintained by a bank or any of its affiliate banks exclusively for the collective investment and reinvestment of moneys contributed thereto by the bank or any of its affiliate banks in any fiduciary capacity specified in paragraphs (5), (6),

(9)and

(10)of section 28;

(2)"Bank" means a qualified bank which is empowered to invest moneys entrusted to it in any capacity specified in paragraphs (5), (6),

(9)and

(10)of section 28;

(3)"Cofiduciary" means one or more individuals or corporations, or both, lawfully acting or entitled to act jointly with a bank in the exercise of the powers referred to in the next preceding paragraph;

(4)"Trust instrument" means the will, deed, agreement, court order or other instrument pursuant to which money or other property is entrusted to a bank as sole fiduciary or jointly with a cofiduciary;

(5)"Trust estate" means money or other property entrusted to a bank solely or jointly with a cofiduciary pursuant to a trust instrument;

(6)"Participation" means the undivided share in a common trust fund which accrues to a trust estate as the result of a bank's investment of funds of such trust estate in such common trust fund;

(7)"Affiliate banks" means banks, including out-of-State banks, at least 90% of whose issued and outstanding stock is owned by the same in-State or out-of-State corporation;

(8)"Out-of-State bank" means a corporation organized as a bank under the laws of a state other than New Jersey or a national banking association having its principal office outside of New Jersey.

L.1948,c.67,s.36; amended 1951,c.46,s.1; 1962,c.104,s.1; 1975,c.338,s.1; 1985,c.528,s.16; 1990,c.22,s.2.