(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the status of any organization as a private foundation shall be terminated only if-

(1) Such organization notifies the Franchise Tax Board (at such time and in such manner as the Franchise Tax Board may by regulations prescribe) of its intent to accomplish such termination, or

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(2) Such organization has been terminated by the Attorney General of this state or by action taken pursuant to Section 507 of the Internal Revenue Code.

(b) (1) The status as a private foundation of any organization shall be terminated if-

(A) Such organization distributes all of its net assets to one or more organizations described below (other than clauses (vii), (viii), (ix) or (x)) each of which has been in existence and so described for a continuous period of at least 60 calendar months immediately preceding such distribution and exempt from tax under Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code or Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code during the last 60 months, or-

(i) A church or a convention or association of churches,

(ii) An educational organization which normally maintains a regular faculty and curriculum and normally has a regularly enrolled body of pupils or students in attendance at the place where its educational activities are regularly carried on,

(iii) An organization the principal purpose or functions of which are the providing of medical or hospital care or medical education or medical research, if the organization is a hospital, or if the organization is a medical research organization directly engaged in the continuous active conduct of medical research in conjunction with a hospital, and during the calendar year in which the contribution is made such organization is committed to spend such contributions for such research before January 1 of the fifth calendar year which begins after the date such contribution is made.

(iv) An organization which normally receives a substantial part of its support (exclusive of income received in the exercise or performance by such organization of its charitable, educational, or other purpose or function constituting the basis for its exemption under Section 23701d) from the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof or from direct or indirect contributions from the general public, and which is organized and operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of a college or university which is an organization referred to in clause (ii) of this subparagraph and which is an agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision thereof, or which is owned or operated by a state or political subdivision thereof or by an agency or instrumentality of one or more states or political subdivisions,

(v) A governmental unit referred to in Section 170(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code,

(vi) An organization referred to in Section 170(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code which normally receives a substantial part of its support (exclusive of income received in the exercise or performance by such organization of its charitable, educational, or other purpose or function constituting the basis for its exemption under Section 23701d) from a governmental unit referred to in Section 170(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code or from direct or indirect contributions from the general public,

(vii) A private operating foundation (as defined in Section 4942(j) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code),

(viii) Any other private foundation (as defined in Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code) which, not later than the 15th day of the third month after the close of the foundation’s taxable year in which contributions are received, makes qualifying distributions (as defined in Section 4942(g) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by P.L. 94-455, without regard to paragraph (3) thereof), which are treated, after the application of Section 4942(g)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code as distributions out of corpus (in accordance with Section 4942(h) of the Internal Revenue Code) in an amount equal to 100 percent of such contributions, and with respect to which the taxpayer maintains adequate records or other sufficient evidence from the foundation showing that the foundation made such qualifying distributions,

(ix) A private foundation all of the contributions to which are pooled in a common fund and which would be described in paragraph (3) of Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code but for the right of any substantial contributor (hereafter in this clause called “donor”) or his spouse to designate annually the recipients, from among organizations described in paragraph (1) of Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, of the income attributable to the donor‘s contribution to the fund and to direct (by deed or by will) the payment, to an organization described in such paragraph (1), of the corpus in the common fund shall apply only if all the income of the common fund is required to be (and is) distributed to one or more organizations described in such paragraph (1) not later than the 15th day of the third month after the close of the taxable year in which the income is realized by the fund and only if all of the corpus attributable to any donor’s contribution to the fund is required to be (and is) distributed to one or more of such organizations not later than one year after his death or after the death of his surviving spouse if she has the right to designate the recipients of such corpus, and

(x) An organization described in paragraph (2) or (3) of Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(B) Such organization meets the requirements of Section 507(b)(1)(B) or paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of Section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, whichever applies, and furnishes copies of its federal notice of termination of its private foundation status to the Franchise Tax Board.

(2) For purposes of this part, in the case of a transfer of assets of any private foundation to another private foundation pursuant to any liquidation, merger, redemption, recapitalization, or other adjustment, organization, or reorganization, the transferee foundation shall not be treated as a newly created organization.

(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 488, Sec. 94. Effective July 28, 1983.)