§60-301.2. Legislative findings and purpose.
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A. The Legislature finds that:
1. Charitable, religious, and educational and eleemosynary organizations perform essential and needed services in the state;
2. Clarification is needed regarding the capability of charitable, religious, educational, and eleemosynary organizations to act as a fiduciary in obtaining and administering present and future gifts benefitting the charitable, religious, educational, and eleemosynary purposes of such organizations and their affiliates; and
3. Clarification is needed regarding the fiduciary powers of charitable, religious, educational, and eleemosynary organizations in the administration of trusts which provide for present or future gifts benefitting the charitable, religious, educational, and eleemosynary purposes of such organizations.
B. The purpose of this act is to authorize charitable, religious, educational, and eleemosynary organizations to act as a fiduciary and to clarify the powers of such organizations when acting in a permitted fiduciary capacity. Added by Laws 1997, c. 99, § 3, emerg. eff. April 15, 1997.