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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 12. TRUSTS · Article 10. PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS · Part 2. TRUSTS

53-12-191. Automatic amendment of governing instrument of private foundation trust or charitable trust as to distribution of trust funds.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. Notwithstanding any provision therein to the contrary and except as provided in Code Section 53-12-192, the governing trust instrument of any trust which is a private foundation or which is a charitable trust, as defined in Section 4947(a)(1) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, shall be amended automatically as of the later of the inception of the trust or January 1, 1972, to include a provision which requires the trustees to distribute, for the purposes specified in the governing trust instrument, for each taxable year, amounts at least sufficient to avoid any liability for the tax imposed by Section 4942 of the federal Internal Revenue Code.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 53-12-191, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 579, § 1/SB 131.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t52-t53-(v40)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V40, 2021 edition, page 859; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 062775612dfc.