§2128.  Common trust funds

A.  A trustee may establish common trust funds for the investment of trust funds of which he is trustee or cotrustee and may invest in such common trust funds, if such investment is not prohibited by the trust instrument, and if the trustee procures the consent of his cotrustees to the investment; provided that:

(1)  The records, reports, and accounts of each trust having an interest in the fund clearly show the extent of such interest; and

(2)  The trustee himself has no interest in such fund; and

(3)  The fractional part of the management fee charged by the trustee proportionate to the interest of each beneficiary shall not, when added to any other compensation charged by a trustee to a beneficiary, exceed the total amount of compensation which would have been charged to the beneficiary if no assets of the beneficiary had been invested in the fund; and

(4)  The fund is maintained under a written plan that is on file at the office of the trustee and is available for inspection during business hours by any interested party; and

(5)  The trustee has had prepared annually by a certified public accountant and placed on file with the trustee, a statement of the investment changes, income, disbursements, and a list of the current investments with a notation as to defaults, for the period since the last such statement.  The trustee shall notify each beneficiary that a copy of the annual statement is available and will be furnished to the beneficiary on request; and

(6)  Entrances into, and withdrawals from, such common trust fund are permitted only on those days upon which the assets comprising the fund are valued; and

(7)  No funds are admitted to the common trust fund at a time when less than forty per centum of the value of the common trust fund is composed of cash or marketable investments for which quotations are readily available; and

(8)  The fund is managed in accordance with any regulations pertaining thereto issued from time to time by the office of financial institutions; and

(9)  On the termination of a trust interested in the common trust fund, the trustee shall terminate the interest of that trust and shall pay from cash in the common trust fund to the person or persons then entitled to the trust capital the then market value of the interest of the trust in the common trust fund.  

B.  If the trustee is restricted to certain investments, then he may invest only in common trust funds limited to such investments.  

C.  A trustee who has established a common trust fund for the investment of trust funds may also invest therein any other funds that he holds as a fiduciary, provided he procures the consent of his co-fiduciaries.

D.  For the purpose of this Section, the term "trustee" shall include two or more trustees who are members of the same "affiliated group" as defined in Section 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, with respect to any fund established pursuant to this Section, of which any of such trustee is trustee or cotrustee.  

Acts 1986, No. 179, §1.