Section 47-2-4 - Operation of real estate trusts

A. Except as limited or reserved to the beneficial owners by the declaration, the trustees are vested with the authority for the control, operation, disposition, investment, reinvestment and management of the trust estate. B. The action of a majority of the trustees is the action of the real estate trust except as otherwise provided by the declaration. C. Trustees shall hold office and be succeeded in office as provided by the declaration, but no successor may act as trustee until he has filed for record with the clerk of the county in which the principal office of the real estate trust is located a document, signed by him and acknowledged before a notary public, by which he assumes the obligations of trustee as provided in the declaration. D. Any legal process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a real estate trust may be served upon any trustee currently in office, or upon the person in charge of the principal office of the trust in this state. E. The trustees shall cause the real estate trust to maintain complete books of account, records, and memoranda reflecting the financial and other activities of the real estate trust, the decisions of the

e trustees shall cause the real estate trust to maintain complete books of account, records, and memoranda reflecting the financial and other activities of the real estate trust, the decisions of the trustees, the name and address of persons who are beneficial owners of the trust, and the number of units held by each. These documents shall be open for inspection and copying by any beneficial owner at any reasonable time for any good faith purpose related to the interest of the beneficial owner. The trustees shall cause current financial statements of the real estate trust to be transmitted annually to the beneficial owners. These statements shall reflect the assets, liabilities and operations of the real estate trust and be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. History: 1953 Comp., § 70-6-4, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 390, § 4. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 1997, ch. 36, § 3 made the Uniform Vendor and Purchaser Risk Act effective July 1, 1997. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 76 Am. Jur. 2d Trusts §§ 280, 410, 546, 547. 90 C.J.S. Trusts §§ 160, 172.