(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section and in subsection (a) of section 45a-495, the time of creation of a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment is determined under general principles of property law.
(b) For purposes of sections 45a-490 to 45a-496, inclusive, if there is a person who alone can exercise a power created by a governing instrument to become the unqualified beneficial owner of (1) a nonvested property interest or (2) a property interest subject to a power of appointment described in subsection (b) or (c) of section 45a-491, the nonvested property interest or power of appointment is created when the power to become the unqualified beneficial owner terminates.
(c) For purposes of sections 45a-490 to 45a-496, inclusive, a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising from a transfer of property to a previously funded trust or other existing property arrangement is created when the nonvested property interest or power of appointment in the original contribution was created.
(P.A. 89-44, S. 3.)