Connecticut General Statutes 36a-386 – Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. Self-sufficiency trusts
(a) Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall have the power to receive, by grant, assignment, transfer, devise, bequest or otherwise, any money, securities or other personal property, or any interest in real estate from any person or corporation in trust, to hold, manage or dispose of the same for the benefit of any person with disabilities or to accept or execute any such trust pursuant to the provisions of sections 36a-380 to 36a-386, inclusive, provided Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall be a nonprofit corporation incorporated in this state and shall be licensed in accordance with, and comply with the provisions of said sections. The purpose of such a trust shall be to assist the beneficiary in achieving and maintaining self-sufficiency.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 36a-386
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- banks: shall include all incorporated banks. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Bequest: Property gifted by will.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- Person: means an individual, company, including a company described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subdivision (11) of this section, or any other legal entity, including a federal, state or municipal government or agency or any political subdivision thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
- State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
(b) Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall establish a charitable trust which shall benefit any person with disabilities for whom an individual trust has not been established. Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall charge each trust created under subsection (a) of this section an annual administrative fee, which shall not exceed the actual costs of administering such trusts. The grantor of a trust created under subsection (a) of this section may enter into an agreement whereby a percentage of the remainder of the trust may be transferred to the charitable trust upon the death of the beneficiary.
(c) The board of directors of Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall report, on or before June 30, 1991, and annually thereafter, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services and banks: (1) The number of beneficiaries for whom assets are placed in trust; (2) the amount held on behalf of each beneficiary; (3) the type of assets funding each trust; (4) the income earned by all such trusts; (5) the amount and purpose of any funds dispersed; (6) the number of grantors who agree to transfer a percentage of the remainder of a trust established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to the charitable trust and the percentage and amount transferred by each; and (7) an itemization of administrative costs.