Section 16363 Of Article 5.3. Allocation Of Receipts During Administration Of Trust: Receipts Normally Apportioned From California Probate Code >> Division 9. >> Part 4. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 5.3.
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. (a) To the extent that a trustee accounts for receipts from
an interest in minerals, water, or other natural resources pursuant
to this section, the trustee shall allocate them as follows:
(1) If received as a nominal bonus, nominal delay rental, or
nominal annual rent on a lease, a receipt shall be allocated to
income.
(2) If received from a production payment, a receipt shall be
allocated to income if and to the extent that the agreement creating
the production payment provides a factor for interest or its
equivalent. The balance shall be allocated to principal.
(3) If an amount received as a royalty, shut-in-well payment,
take-or-pay payment, bonus, or delay rental is more than nominal, 90
percent shall be allocated to principal and the balance to income.
(4) If an amount is received from a working interest or any other
interest in mineral or other natural resources not described in
paragraph (1), (2), or (3), 90 percent of the net amount received
shall be allocated to principal and the balance to income.
(b) An amount received on account of an interest in water that is
renewable shall be allocated to income. If the water is not
renewable, 90 percent of the amount shall be allocated to principal
and the balance to income.
(c) This chapter applies whether or not a decedent or donor was
extracting minerals, water, or other natural resources before the
interest became subject to the trust.
(d) If a trust owned an interest in minerals, water, or other
natural resources on January 1, 2000, the trustee may at all times
allocate receipts from the interest as provided in this chapter or in
the manner reasonably used by the trustee prior to that date.
Receipts from an interest in minerals, water, or other natural
resources acquired after January 1, 2000, shall be allocated by the
trustee as provided in this chapter. If the interest was owned by the
trust on January 1, 2000, a trustee that allocated receipts from the
interest between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2006, as provided
in this chapter shall not have a duty to review that allocation and
shall not have liability arising from the allocation. Nothing in this
section is intended to create or imply a duty to allocate in a
manner used by the trustee prior to January 1, 2000, and a trustee is
not liable for not considering whether to make such an allocation or
for choosing not to make such an allocation.