(1) Any bank or trust company when acting as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, agent, or trustee, whether alone or jointly with an individual or individuals, may with the consent of the individual fiduciary or fiduciaries, if any (who are hereby authorized to give such consent), cause any stock or other securities held in any such capacity to be registered and held in the name of a nominee or nominees of such bank or trust company, or in its own name.
(2) Any such bank or trust company shall be absolutely liable for any loss occasioned by the acts of any nominees of such bank or trust company with respect to such stock or other securities so registered. But no liability for any loss occasioned by the acts of any such bank or trust company, or the nominee of either of them with respect to such stock or securities so registered, shall be imposed upon the corporation, its transfer agent or registrar, which registers its stock or other securities in the name of such bank or trust company, or the nominee of either of them, in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(3) The records of such bank or trust company shall at all times show the ownership of any such stock or other securities. Such stock or other securities shall at all times be kept separate and apart from the assets of such bank or trust company.