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Ark. Code Ann. § 28-73-413

Cy pres

Known as the Arkansas Trust Code

The act spans §§ 28–28 (103 sections).

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Covenant Presbytery v. First Baptist Church (2016)

Most recently applied in Estate of Alexander v. Sparks Regional Medical Center (November 2017)

Acts 2005, No. 1031, § 1.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), if a particular charitable purpose becomes unlawful, impracticable, impossible to achieve, or wasteful: the trust does not fail, in whole or in part;

(2) the trust property does not revert to the settlor or the settlor's successors in interest; and

(3) a court may apply cy pres to modify or terminate the trust by directing that the trust property be applied or distributed, in whole or in part, in a manner consistent with the settlor's charitable purposes.

(4) A provision in the terms of a charitable trust that would result in distribution of the trust property to a noncharitable beneficiary prevails over the power of a court under subsection (a) to apply cy pres to modify or terminate the trust only if, when the provision takes effect: the trust property is to revert to the settlor and the settlor is still living; or

(5) less than thirty (30) years have elapsed since the date of the trust's creation.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.