Michigan Laws 14.284 – Effect of delivery of release and acceptance thereof; supervisory authority of public charitable organization
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(1) The trustee, by delivery of the release or execution of the election, and each specified public charitable organization, by accepting delivery of the release as provided in subsection (1) of section 11 or by consenting to the election in section 12, agree that the public charitable organization, (a) shall compel the proper administration of the trust; (b) may inspect the books, records, memoranda, papers, documents of title and evidence of assets, liabilities, receipts or disbursements in possession or control of the trustee or other person having custody of the books and records; and (c) may require such other information as the public charitable organization deems necessary to compel proper administration of the trust.
(2) The supervisory authority granted a public charitable organization is in addition to the supervisory authority of the attorney general over charitable trusts under common law and the statutes of this state.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 14.284
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Public charitable organization: means an organization described in section 509(a)(1), (2) or (3) of the IRC and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of the IRC. See Michigan Laws 14.272
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- Trust: means an express trust created by a trust instrument, including a will. See Michigan Laws 14.272
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- Trustee: means the trustee or person possessing a power referred to in this act. See Michigan Laws 14.272