Section 1585 Of Article 4. Investments From California Financial Code >> Division 1.1. >> Chapter 16. >> Article 4.
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. (a) For purposes of this section, two or more trust companies
shall be deemed to be affiliated if they are members of the same
affiliated group, within the meaning of Section 1504 of the Internal
Revenue Code.
(b) Any trust company may establish and administer common trust
funds composed of property permitted by law for the investment of
trust funds, for the purpose of furnishing investments to any one or
more of the following: (1) itself, as fiduciary; (2) itself and
others, as cofiduciaries; (3) any affiliated trust company including,
without limitation, any foreign (other state) affiliated trust
company, as fiduciary; and (4) any affiliated trust company
including, without limitation, any foreign (other state) affiliated
trust company and others, as cofiduciaries. Any trust company may as
such fiduciary or cofiduciary invest funds which it lawfully holds
for investment in interests in common trust funds administered by
itself or by any affiliated trust company including, without
limitation, any foreign (other state) affiliated trust company, if
such investment is not prohibited by the instrument, judgment,
decree, order, or statute creating or governing such fiduciary
relationship, and if, in the case of cofiduciaries, the trust company
procures the consent of its cofiduciaries to such investment.
(c) Each common trust fund established hereunder shall be treated
as an entity separate and distinct from the fiduciary relationships
participating therein. No fiduciary in administering a participating
fiduciary relationship shall be required to make any apportionment or
allocation between the principal and income of this relationship
different from that made for the common trust fund. No participating
fiduciary relationship, nor any person having an interest in that
relationship, shall have or be deemed to have any ownership in any
particular property of the common trust fund, but each participating
fiduciary relationship shall have a proportionate undivided interest
in the fund and its income, and the ownership of all property of the
common trust fund shall be in the trustee of the fund.
(d) This section shall apply to fiduciary relationships now in
existence or hereafter established, whether the same be revocable or
irrevocable. The commissioner, at his or her direction, may make an
examination of any common trust fund established hereunder at the
times and to the extent as he or she may deem advisable. The
provisions of the Corporate Securities Law shall not apply to the
creation, administration, or termination of common trust funds, nor
to participation therein.