Charitable organizations shall be permitted to act in the following fiduciary capacities within this state:

1. To act as trustee under charitable trusts created by will, inter vivos declaration of trust or trust agreement, corporate resolution, or order, judgment or decree of any of the courts of record of this state or of any state or of the United States;

2. To accept and execute all charitable trusts and perform such duties of every description as may be committed to them under such trust by any person or persons, any corporation, or any order, judgment or decree of any of the courts of record of this state or of any state or of the United States provided that such duties are not inconsistent with the charitable, religious, educational, or other eleemosynary purposes of the charitable organization;

3. To take, accept and hold by gift, grant, assignment, transfer, devise or bequest of any person or persons, any corporation, or any order, judgment or decree of any of the courts of record of this state or of any state or of the United States any real or personal property as a charitable trust;

4. To execute and perform any and all charitable trusts upon the terms, conditions, limitations and restrictions which may be declared, imposed, established or agreed upon in and by the person or persons, corporation, or order, judgment, decree, gift, grant, assignment, transfer, devise or bequest establishing such trust;

5. To act as attorney-in-fact for any person establishing a charitable trust; and

6. To act as personal representative in the probate of the will of any decedent, whether such decedent was a resident of this state or not, and whether the probate of the will of such decedent is by original or ancillary proceeding, where the will makes a present or future gift to or confers a present or future benefit on the charitable organization serving as personal representative or one or more of its affiliated charitable organizations and the total of all gifts made to the charitable organization serving as personal representative or one or more of its affiliated charitable organizations in the will is as large as the largest distribution made to another person who is not a charitable organization, but in no event shall the total of all gifts made to the charitable organization serving as personal representative or one or more of its affiliated charitable organizations in the will be less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the estate which is available for distribution.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 99, § 5, emerg. eff. April 15, 1997.