Any trustee or disinterested person who in good faith takes or fails to take any action under this chapter is not liable to any person affected by such action or inaction, regardless of whether such person received written notice as provided in this chapter and regardless of whether such person was under a legal disability at the time of the delivery of such notice. Such person’s exclusive remedy shall be to obtain an order of the court directing the trustee to convert an income trust to a total return unitrust, to reconvert from a total return unitrust to an income trust or to change the percentage used to calculate the unitrust amount.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 55-15-13

  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SL 2002, ch 225, § 13.