KRS 386A.4-010: Series.
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(1) If a statutory trust complies with KRS 386A.4 -020(2), a governing instrument may
establish or provide for the establishment of one (1) or more designated series that:
(a) Has separate rights, powers, or duties with respect to specified property or
obligations or profits and losses associated with specified property or
obligations; or
(b) Has a separate purpose or investment objective.
(2) A series of a statutory trust is to the degree provided in subsection (4) of this section
an entity separate from the statutory trust.
(3) A series of a statutory trust may have a separate purpose from the trust or any other
series thereof if the purpose of the series is:
(a) Permitted by KRS 386A.3-030; and
(b) Not outside the purpose of the trust.
(4) Unless otherwise pro vided in the governing instrument, a series established in
accordance with subsection (1) of this section shall have the power and capacity to,
in its own name, contract, hold title to real, personal, and intangible assets, grant
liens and security interests, and sue and be sued.
(5) The registered agent and registered office of a statutory trust that is a series trust
shall be the registered agent and registered office of each series thereof.
(6) The governing instrument may provide that one (1) or more tr ustees shall be
associated with a series, in which case they shall be the trustees discharging the
obligations of Subchapter 5 of this chapter as to that series. In the absence of such
an association, all trustees of the statutory trust shall be trustees a ssociated with a
series.
(7) The governing instrument may provide for the means by which beneficial owners
are associated with a series. The statutory trust may be associated with a series
thereof. In the absence of association as provided in the governing instrument, all
beneficial owners of the statutory trust shall be deemed associated with each series.
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