Section 16364 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
the sale of timber and related products pursuant to this section, the
trustee shall allocate the net receipts as follows:
(1) To income to the extent that the amount of timber removed from
the land does not exceed the rate of growth of the timber during the
accounting periods in which a beneficiary has a mandatory income
interest.
(2) To principal to the extent that the amount of timber removed
from the land exceeds the rate of growth of the timber or the net
receipts are from the sale of standing timber.
(3) To or between income and principal if the net receipts are
from the lease of timberland or from a contract to cut timber from
land owned by a trust, by determining the amount of timber removed
from the land under the lease or contract and applying the rules in
paragraphs (1) and (2).
(4) To principal to the extent that advance payments, bonuses, and
other payments are not allocated pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or
(3).
(b) In determining net receipts to be allocated under subdivision
(a), a trustee shall deduct and transfer to principal a reasonable
amount for depletion.
(c) This chapter applies whether or not a decedent or transferor
was harvesting timber from the property before it became subject to
the trust.
(d) If a trust owned an interest in timberland on January 1, 2000,
the trustee may at all times allocate net receipts from the sale of
timber and related products as provided in this chapter or in the
manner reasonably used by the trustee prior to that date. Net
receipts from an interest in timberland 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 net 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.