South Carolina Code 34-21-320. Making and withdrawing investments
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The trust institution shall invest the moneys of an estate in such common trust fund by adding them thereto, and by apportioning a participation therein to such estate in the proportion that the moneys of the estate added thereto bears to the aggregate value of all the securities of such fund at the time of such investment, including in such securities the moneys of the estate so added. The withdrawal of a participation of such common trust fund shall be on the basis of its proportionate interest in the aggregate value of all the securities of such fund at the time of such withdrawal, as hereinafter provided. The participating interest of any estate in such common trust fund may, from time to time, be withdrawn in whole or in part by the trust institution, and shall be so withdrawn within a period of three months following the written request so to do of any person acting with the trust institution in a fiduciary capacity.
Upon such withdrawals, the trust institution may make distribution in cash or ratably in kind, or partly in cash or partly in kind; provided, that all such distribution as of any one time shall be made on the same basis.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-21-320
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Trust institution: means any state bank, any national bank, any building and loan association, savings association, savings and loan association, savings bank, or any trust company authorized to conduct a trust business in this State, or any trust company, authorized to act in a fiduciary capacity in this State, and under the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, or the Federal Reserve System, or the State Board of Bank Control of South Carolina;
(2) The term "fiduciary" means a trust institution undertaking to act alone or jointly with others primarily for the benefit of another in all matters connected with its undertaking and includes trustee, executor, administrator, guardian of estates, committee of estates of persons non compos mentis, and managing agent;
(3) The term "common trust fund" means a fund maintained by a trust institution, exclusively for the collective investment and reinvestment of moneys contributed thereto by the institution in its capacity as a fiduciary or cofiduciary and established, maintained and administered pursuant to the requirements of this article;
(4) The term "estate" or "estates" means any trust, estate or fund administered by a trust institution in a fiduciary capacity;
(5) The term "participation" means the interest of a participating estate in the common trust fund;
(6) The term "security" or "securities" means all types of property in which the trust institution is authorized to invest the assets of the common trust fund; and
(7) The term "managing agency" means the fiduciary relationship assumed by a bank upon the creation of an account so entitled which confers investment discretion on the bank and imposes upon it the fiduciary responsibilities imposed upon trustees under will or deed. See South Carolina Code 34-21-210