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O.C.G.A. § 53-12-412 — Business and other activities conducted by trustee | Georgia Code
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TITLE 53 WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

Section 12. (Revised Trust Code of 2010) Trusts, 53-12-1 through 53-12-506.

ARTICLE 17 GEORGIA PRINCIPAL AND INCOME ACT

53-12-412. Business and other activities conducted by trustee.

  1. If a trustee who conducts a business or other activity determines that it is in the best interest of all the beneficiaries to account separately for the business or activity instead of accounting for it as part of the trust's general accounting records, the trustee may maintain separate accounting records for its transactions, whether or not its assets are segregated from other trust assets.
  2. A trustee who accounts separately for a business or other activity may determine the extent to which its net cash receipts shall be retained for working capital, the acquisition or replacement of fixed assets, and other reasonably foreseeable needs of the business or activity, and the extent to which the remaining net cash receipts are accounted for as principal or income in the trust's general accounting records. If a trustee sells assets of the business or other activity, other than in the ordinary course of the business or activity, the trustee shall account for the net amount received as principal in the trust's general accounting records to the extent the trustee determines that the amount received is no longer required in the conduct of the business.
  3. Activities for which a trustee may maintain separate accounting records shall include:
    1. Retail, manufacturing, service, and other traditional business activities;
    2. Farming;
    3. Raising and selling livestock and other animals;
    4. Management of rental properties;
    5. Extraction of minerals and other natural resources;
    6. Timber operations; and
    7. Activities to which Code Section 53-12-430 applies.

(Code 1981, §53-12-412, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 579, § 1/SB 131.)

Subpart 2 Receipts Not Normally Apportioned

53-12-420. Principal receipts.

A trustee shall allocate to principal:

  1. To the extent not allocated to income under this article, assets received from a transferor during the transferor's lifetime, a decedent's estate, a trust with a terminating income interest, or a payor under a contract naming the trust or its trustee as beneficiary;
  2. Money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation, or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit, subject to the provisions of this article;
  3. Amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in paragraph (7) of subsection (a) of Code Section 53-12-451 or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income;
  4. Proceeds of property taken by eminent domain, but a separate award made for the loss of income with respect to an accounting period during which a current income beneficiary had a mandatory income interest shall be income;
  5. Net income received in an accounting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute income; and
  6. Other receipts as provided in this article.

(Code 1981, §53-12-420, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 579, § 1/SB 131; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 53/HB 142.)

The 2011 amendment, effective May 13, 2011, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised language in paragraph (1).

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