(1) Shares, share certificates, deposits, and deposit certificates may be held in the name of a member in trust for a beneficiary, or in the name of a nonmember in trust for a beneficiary who is a member.
(2) Beneficiaries may be under eighteen (18) years of age; but no beneficiary, unless a member in his own right, shall be permitted to vote, obtain loans, hold office or be required to pay an entrance or membership fee.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 286.6-385

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit association, incorporated under this subtitle, for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members, creating a source of credit at a fair and reasonable rate of interest, and providing an opportunity for its members to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social condition. See Kentucky Statutes 286.6-005
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC

(3) Payment of part or all of such a trust account to the party in whose name the account is held shall, to the extent of such payment, discharge the liability of the credit union to that party and to the beneficiary, and the credit union shall be under no obligation to see to the application of such payment.
Effective: July 13, 1984
History: Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 408, sec. 39, effective July 13, 1984.
Formerly codified as KRS § 290.385.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). In accordance with 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 247, secs. 38 and 39, this statute has been renumbered as a section of the Kentucky Financial Services Code, KRS Chapter 286.