Beneficial interest

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Business Organizations. [Enacted title]
4. Statutory Trusts
5. Beneficial Owners
6. Beneficial interest

(a) A beneficial interest in a statutory trust is personal property.

(b) A beneficial interest in a statutory trust shall not be an interest in specific property of the statutory trust.

(c) A beneficial owner shall not have a preemptive right to subscribe to any additional issue of beneficial interests or any other interest of a statutory trust.

(July 2, 2011, D.C. Law 18-378, § 2, 58 DCR 1720; Mar. 5, 2013, D.C. Law 19-210, § 2(l)(7)(B), 59 DCR 13171.)

Effect of Amendments

The 2013 amendment by D.C. Law 19-210 repealed former (a); redesignated former “(b) through (d) as (a) through (c); and substituted ““is personal property” for ““shall be personal property regardless of the nature of the property of the trust” in (a).

Editor's Notes

Uniform Law: This section is based on § 601 of the Uniform Statutory Trust Entity Act.

Section 2(l)(7)(A) of D.C. Law 19-210 substituted “Beneficial Owners” for “Beneficiaries and Beneficial Rights” in the subchapter heading.

Application of Law 19-210: Section 7 of D.C. Law 19-210 provided that the act shall apply as of January 1, 2012.

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