Section 17640 Of Article 1. General Rule From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 2. >> Part 10. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 1.
17640
. Subdivision (a) of Section 17637 shall not apply to a loan
made by a trust described in Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue
Code to the employer (or to a renewal of such a loan or, if the loan
is repayable upon demand, to a continuation of such a loan) if the
loan bears a reasonable rate of interest, and if (in the case of a
making or renewal)--
(a) The employer is prohibited (at the time of the making or
renewal) by any law of the United States or regulation thereunder
from directly or indirectly pledging, as security for such a loan, a
particular class or classes of his assets the value of which (at that
time) represents more than one-half of the value of all his or her
assets;
(b) The making or renewal, as the case may be, is approved in
writing as an investment that is consistent with the exempt purposes
of the trust by a trustee who is independent of the employer, and no
other similar trustee had previously refused to give that written
approval; and
(c) Immediately following the making or renewal, as the case may
be, the aggregate amount loaned by the trust to the employer, without
the receipt of adequate security, does not exceed 25 percent of the
value of all the assets of the trust.
(d) For purposes of subdivision (b), the term "trustee" means,
with respect to any trust for which there is more than one trustee
who is independent of the employer, a majority of those independent
trustees. For purposes of subdivision (c), the determination as to
whether any amount loaned by the trust to the employer is loaned
without the receipt of adequate security shall be made without regard
to Section 17639.