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KRS 381.260

Grants-in-aid of charity valid

Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Letcher's Trustee v. Letcher (1946)

Most recently applied in Smith v. Snow (November 2002)

Effective: July 15, 1980 History: Amended 1980 Ky

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) Every grant, conveyance, legacy, bequest, devise, gift, appointment, assignment and transfer of property, whenever made and in whatever form, shall be valid (a) if made to any corporation, association, trust, foundation, or similar organization or entity, created or formed for and devoted solely to charitable, religious, scientific, literary, educational, humane, benevolent or like purposes or, (b) except as otherwise provided by statute, if it is made for any charitable or humane purpose and if it points out with reasonable certainty the purposes of the charity and the beneficiaries thereof.

(2) A grant, conveyance, legacy, bequest, devise, gift, appointment, assignment and transfer of property, whenever made and in whatever form, is deemed to point out with reasonable certainty the purposes of the charity and beneficiaries thereof if and so long as the same is to or for the use of any corporation, trust, community chest, fund, foundation, or other entity organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, including the encouragement of art and the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual (except as reasonable compensation for services rendered), and no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation, and which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office, even though such corporation, trust, fund, foundation or other entity is authorized to apply the trust income or property to any class or classes of charitable purposes mentioned above and the trustee or other managing individual or body is able and willing to make the selection.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.