23736.1
. (a) For the purposes of this article, the term "prohibited
transaction" means any transaction in which an organization subject
to this article--
(1) Lends any part of its income or corpus, without the receipt of
adequate security and a reasonable rate of interest, to;
(2) Pays any compensation, in excess of a reasonable allowance for
salaries or other compensation for personal services actually
rendered, to;
(3) Makes any part of its services available on a preferential
basis to;
(4) Makes any substantial purchase of securities or any other
property, for more than adequate consideration in money or money's
worth, from;
(5) Sells any substantial part of its securities or other
property, for less than an adequate consideration in money or money's
worth, to; or
(6) Engages in any other transaction that results in a substantial
diversion of its income or corpus to; the creator of the
organization (if a trust); a person who has made a substantial
contribution to the organization; a member of the family (as defined
in Section 267(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code) of an individual
who is the creator of that trust or who has made a substantial
contribution to that organization; or a corporation controlled by
that creator or person through the ownership, directly or indirectly,
of 50 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all
classes of stock entitled to vote or 50 percent or more of the total
value of shares of all classes of stock of the corporation.
(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), a bond, debenture, note, or
certificate or other evidence of indebtedness (hereinafter in this
section referred to as "obligation") acquired by a trust described in
Section 23701n shall not be treated as a loan made without the
receipt of adequate security if--
(1) The obligation is acquired--
(A) On the market, either (i) at the price of the obligation
prevailing on a national securities exchange that is registered with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, or (ii) if the obligation is
not traded on a national securities exchange, at a price not less
favorable to the trust than the offering price for the obligation as
established by current bid and asked prices quoted by persons
independent of the issuer;
(B) From an underwriter, at a price (i) not in excess of the
public offering price for the obligation as set forth in a prospectus
or offering circular filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and (ii) at which a substantial portion of the same issue
is acquired by persons independent of the issuer; or
(C) Directly from the issuer, at a price not less favorable to the
trust than the price paid currently for a substantial portion of the
same issue by persons independent of the issuer;
(2) Immediately following acquisition of that obligation--
(A) Not more than 25 percent of the aggregate amount of
obligations issued in that issue and outstanding at the time of
acquisition is held by the trust, and
(B) At least 50 percent of the aggregate amount referred to in
subparagraph (A) is held by persons independent of the issuer; and
(3) Immediately following acquisition of the obligation, not more
than 25 percent of the assets of the trust is invested in obligations
of persons described in subdivision (a).
(4) (A) In the case of a trust described in Section 23701n, or in
the case of a corporation described in Section 23701h, all of the
stock of which was acquired before January 1, 1961, by a trust
described in Section 23701n, any indebtedness incurred by that trust
or that corporation before January 1, 1961, in connection with real
property that is leased before January 1, 1961, and any indebtedness
incurred by that trust or that corporation on or after that date
necessary to carry out the terms of that lease, shall not be
considered as an indebtedness with respect to that trust or that
corporation for purposes of this section.
(B) In the application of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), if a
trust described in Section 23701n forming part of a supplemental
unemployment compensation benefit plan lends any money to another
trust described in Section 23701n forming part of the same plan, that
loan shall not be treated as an indebtedness of the borrowing trust,
except to the extent that the loaning trust--
(i) Incurs any indebtedness in order to make that loan,
(ii) Incurred indebtedness before the making of that loan which
would not have been incurred but for the making of that loan, or
(iii) Incurred indebtedness after the making of that loan which
would not have been incurred but for the making of that loan and that
was reasonably foreseeable at the time of making that loan.
(c) Subdivision (a) shall not apply to a loan made by a trust
described in Section 23701n to the employer (or to a renewal of that
loan or, if the loan is repayable upon demand, to a continuation of
that loan) if the loan bears a reasonable rate of interest, and if
(in the case of a making or renewal)--
(1) The employer is prohibited (at the time of that making or
renewal) by any law of the United States or regulation thereunder
from directly or indirectly pledging, as security for the loan, a
particular class or classes of his or her assets the value of which
(at that time) represents more than one-half of the value of all his
or her assets;
(2) 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 independent trustee had previously refused to give that written
approval; and
(3) 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.
(4) For purposes of paragraph (2) 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 paragraph (3), 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 subdivision (b).