DECLARATION OF NOMINEE TRUST
The undersigned, _____________________ of
_________________ County, State of ________________ (the "Trustee"
hereunder), hereby declares that any and all property and interest in property
that may be transferred to him as Trustee hereunder ("the Trust
Estate"), shall be held in trust, for the sole benefit of the
beneficiaries for the time being hereunder, upon the terms herein set
forth. The term "Trustee"
wherever used herein shall mean the Trustee or Trustees named herein and such
person or persons who hereafter are serving as Trustee or Trustees hereunder,
and the rights, powers, authority and privileges granted hereunder to the
Trustee shall be exercised by such person or persons subject to the provisions
hereof.
1.
BENEFICIARIES: The term
"Beneficiaries" wherever used herein shall mean the beneficiary or
beneficiaries listed in the Schedule of Beneficial Interests this day, executed
and filed with the Trustee, or in the revised Schedule of Beneficial Interests,
if any, from time to time executed and filed with the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be affected by any
assignment or transfer of any beneficial interest until receipt by the Trustee
of notice that such assignment or transfer has in fact been made and a revised
Schedule of Beneficial Interests shall have been duly executed and filed with
the Trustee. Any Trustee may without
impropriety become a beneficiary hereunder and exercise all rights of a
beneficiary with the same effect as though he were not a Trustee.
2. DUTIES OF
TRUSTEE: The Trustee shall hold the
principal of this Trust for the benefit of the beneficiaries, and shall
immediately pay over any income received to the beneficiaries in proportion to
their respective interests.
3. POWERS OF
THE TRUSTEE: The Trustee shall have no
power to deal in or with the Trust Estate except as directed by the
beneficiaries. When, as, if and to the
extent specifically directed by the beneficiaries, any one of the Trustees
shall have the power to:
(a) Buy or otherwise acquire, to hold, to
exchange or partition, to sell at public or private sale, and to mortgage,
pledge or otherwise encumber or dispose of all or any part of the Trust Estate;
and to execute any and all deeds, promissory notes, mortgages and other instruments necessary or appropriate
therefore;
(b) To lease and sublease all or any part of the
Trust Estate for such term(s) and on such terms as the Trustee deems advisable;
(c) Contest or compromise any claims in favor of
or against or in any way relating to the Trust Estate. Any and all instruments executed pursuant to
such directions may create obligations extending over any periods of time
including periods beyond any possible termination date of the Trust. Notwithstanding any provisions contained
herein, no Trustee shall be required to take any action which will, in the
opinion of such Trustee, involve him in any personal liability unless first
indemnified to his satisfaction. Any
person dealing with the Trustee shall be fully protected in accordance with the
provisions of Paragraph 7 hereof.
4.
TERMINATION: The Trust may be
terminated any time, by one or more of the beneficiaries, by notice in writing
to the Trustee, but such termination shall only be effective when a certificate
thereof signed and acknowledged by a Trustee hereunder, shall be recorded with
____________________ County, __________ (State) Registry
of Deeds (hereinafter the "Registry" see
also Paragraph 9 hereof); and the Trust shall terminate in any event twenty
(20) years from the date hereof. In
case of any such termination, the Trustee shall transfer and convey the
specific assets constituting the Trust Estate, subject to any leases,
mortgages, contracts or other encumbrances on the Trust Estate, to the then
beneficiaries as tenants in common in proportion to their respective interests
hereunder.
5.
RESIGNATION AND APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES: Any Trustee hereunder may resign by written
instrument signed and acknowledged by such Trustee and recorded with the
Registry. Succeeding or additional
Trustees may be appointed or any Trustee may be removed by an instrument or
instruments in writing signed by all the beneficiaries, provided in each case
that such instrument or instruments, or a certificate signed by any Trustee
naming the Trustee or Trustees appointed or removed, and in the case of any
appointment, the acceptance in writing by the Trustee or Trustees appointed,
shall be recorded with the Registry.
Upon the appointment of any succeeding or additional Trustee, the title
to the Trust Estate shall thereupon and without the necessity of any conveyance
be vested in said succeeding or additional Trustee jointly with the remaining
Trustee or Trustees, if any. Each
succeeding and additional Trustee shall have the rights, powers, authority and
privileges as if named as an original Trustee hereunder. No Trustee shall be required to furnish
bond.
6. AMENDMENT: This Declaration of Trust may be amended
from time to time by an instrument in writing signed by all the beneficiaries
and acknowledged by one or more of the beneficiaries, provided in each case
that the instrument of amendment, or a certificate by any Trustee setting forth
the terms of such amendment, shall be recorded with the Registry prior to the
amendment being effective as to any party who does not have actual notice
thereof.
7. TRUSTEE
LIABILITY; RELIANCE OF PURCHASERS AND OTHERS:
No Trustee hereunder shall be liable for any error of judgment or for
any loss arising out of any act or omission in good faith, but shall be
responsible only for his/her own willful breach of trust. No license of court shall be requisite to
the validity of any transaction entered into by the Trustee. No purchaser, transferee, pledgee, mortgagee
or other lender shall be under any obligation to see to the application of the
purchase money or of any money or property loaned or delivered to any Trustee
or to see that the terms and conditions of this Trust have been complied
with. Every agreement, lease, deed,
mortgage, note, or other instrument or document executed or action taken by any
one Trustee appearing as a Trustee hereunder from the records of the Registry,
shall be conclusive evidence in favor of every person relying thereon or
claiming thereunder that at the time of the delivery thereof or of the taking
of such action this Trust was in full force and effect, that the execution and
delivery thereof or taking of such action was duly authorized, empowered and
directed by the beneficiaries, and that such instrument or document or action
is valid, binding and legally enforceable. Any person dealing with the Trust
Estate or the Trustee may always rely without inquiry on the certificate signed
by any Trustee appearing as a Trustee hereunder from the records of the
Registry as to whom is the Trustee or whom are the Trustees or the
beneficiaries hereunder, or as to the authority of the Trustee to act, or as to
the existence or nonexistence of any fact or facts which constitute conditions
precedent to acts by the Trustee or which are in any other manner germane to
the affairs of the Trust.
8. NO
PERSONAL LIABILITY: No Trustee or
beneficiary of this Trust shall be held personally or individually liable for
any of the obligations incurred or entered into on behalf of the Trust and each
person who deals with the Trustee shall look solely to the Trust Estate for
satisfaction of any claims which such person may have against the Trust.
9.
RECORDATION: The term
"Registry" as used herein shall mean the ___________ County,
_________________________ (State) Registry of Deeds; provided that if this Declaration
of Trust is recorded or filed for registration in any other public office
within or without the ______________ (State), any person dealing with portions
or all of the Trust Estate as to which documents or instruments are recorded or
filed for registration in such other public office in order to constitute
notice to persons not parties thereto may rely on the state of the record with
respect to this Trust in such other public office, and with respect to such
portions or all of the Trust Estate the term "Registry" as used
herein shall also mean such other public office.
10.
MISCELLANEOUS: Whenever
applicable, the use of the singular number herein shall include the plural and
the use of the plural shall include the singular number. The use of the masculine gender shall also
include the feminine, wherever applicable.
All paragraph titles are supplied for convenience of reference only and
shall not govern the meaning or interpretation of this Declaration of Nominee
Trust.
WITNESS the execution hereof under seal at
____________ by the undersigned this _________________ day of
_______________________ (month), ____ (year).
______________________________
Trustee
STATE OF ____________________
Then personally appeared the above-named
___________________________________ and acknowledged the foregoing instrument
to be his free act and deed, before me,
________________________________
Notary Public
My Commission Expires: __________________________
ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT AS TRUSTEE
I, _______________________________, hereby accept
appointment as Trustee of the ____________________ Trust and hereby agree to
exercise faithfully any and all rights, powers, authority and privileges
granted thereunder.
Signed this _____________ day of __________________
(month), ____ (year).
__________________________________
Signature
Witnessed by:
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