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TRUST AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
LEON D. BLACK
AS GRANTOR
AND
NORMAN BROWNSTEIN,
AS TRUSTEE
CREATING
THE LEON D. BLACK 1999
LIFE INSURANCE TRUST #2
Dated: As of September 13, 1999
Copy 3 of 3
RUBIN BAUM LEVIN CONSTANT 8 FRIEDMAN
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA • NEW YORK, N.Y. 10112
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Index to the Leon D. Black
1999 Life Insurance Trust Agreement #2
Article Contents Page
FIRST: Disposition of Principal and Income During
the Life of the Grantor and his Spouse . • • 2
SECOND: Continuing Trusts for Descendants
of the Grantor 4
THIRD: Disposition of Property if No Descendant
of the Grantor is Living 7
FOURTH: Additions to the Trusts 9
FIFTH: Irrevocability 9
SIXTH: Governing Law 9
SEVENTH: Trustees 10
EIGHTH: Compensation of Trustees 16
NINTH: Authority with Respect to
Life Insurance Policies 17
TENTH: Settlement of Trustees' Accounts;
Exoneration of Trustees 22
ELEVENTH: Definitions 24
TWELFTH: Administrative Powers 25
THIRTEENTH: Provisions Relating to the GST 36
FOURTEENTH: Release of Powers 41
FIFTEENTH: Provisions with Respect to
Closely Held Businesses 42
SIXTEENTH: Headings 43
SEVENTEENTH: Counterparts and Severability 43
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TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of September 13, 1999,
between LEON D. BLACK (having an address at
, as Grantor, and NORMAN BROWNSTEIN
(having an address at
a, as Trustee.
The Grantor hereby transfers to the Trustee, and the
Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt of, the sum of One Thousand
Dollars ($1,000.00), to be held, administered and disposed of in
accordance with the provisions of Article FIRST hereof. Said
sum and any other property that may be received by the Trustees
pursuant to the provisions of Article FOURTH hereof, and all
investments and reinvestments thereof, and all proceeds thereof
which constitute principal, are hereinafter collectively called
"principal."
Wherever used in this Trust Agreement the word
"Trustees" and all references to the Trustees shall mean and
refer to the Trustee and successor Trustee herein named, any
successor or additional Trustee appointed pursuant to the provi-
sions hereof, any substitute Trustee appointed by a court of
competent jurisdiction, the survivors or survivor of them, and
their and each of their successors or successor, as may be act-
ing hereunder from time to time.
This Trust Agreement shall be known as the "Leon D.
Black 1999 Life Insurance Trust Agreement #2" and the trust
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created by Article FIRST hereof shall be known as the "Leon D.
Black 1999 Life Insurance Trust #2."
FIRST: Disposition of Principal and Income During
the Life of the Grantor and his Spouse.
A. The Trustees shall hold, manage, invest and rein-
vest the principal of the trust created by this Article, IN
TRUST, and, so long as either the Grantor or his spouse, DEBRA
R. BLACK, shall live, the Trustees shall receive the income
thereof and shall accumulate the net income thereof, if any,
and, at least annually, add it to the principal of such trust,
subject, however, to the provisions of Sections B and C of this
Article.
B. The Trustees are authorized and empowered to use
or apply such part, parts or all, if any, of the income or prin-
cipal of the trust created by this Article, in such amounts and
proportions, and at such time or times, as they, in their dis-
cretion, shall determine to pay premiums on any one or more
insurance policies on the life of the Grantor and/or of the
Grantor's said spouse which may at any time be held as part of
the principal of the trust created by this Article.
C. The Trustees are authorized and empowered to pay
such part, parts or all, if any, of the income and principal of
the trust created by this Article (including any or all insur-
ance policies held in the trust) to, or apply such part, parts
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or all, if any, of the income and principal of the trust created
by this Article (including any or all insurance policies held in
the trust) for the use or benefit of, such one or more of the
descendants of the Grantor living from time to time, in such
equal or unequal amounts and proportions, and at such time or
times, as the Trustees, in their discretion, shall determine,
without regard to the interest in such trust of any other person
and without regard to the fact that any such payment or
application may result in the termination of the trust.
D. Upon the death of the survivor of the Grantor and
his said spouse, the Trustees shall pay the then principal of
the trust, together with all net income thereof accrued but not
yet collected, and collected but not yet disposed of,
(hereinafter referred to in this Section D as "such property"),
per stirpes, to such of the descendants of the Grantor as shall
then be living, subject, however, to the provisions of Article
SECOND hereof, or, if no descendant of the Grantor shall survive
both the Grantor and the Grantor's said spouse, the Trustees
shall pay such property in accordance with the provisions of
Article THIRD hereof.
E. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
if any descendant of the Grantor shall be a Trustee hereunder,
he or she shall not, in his or her capacity as such a Trustee,
have any voice or vote or otherwise participate in any decision
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pertaining to the payment or application of the income or
principal of the trust created by this Article to or for the use
or benefit of him or her in his or her capacity as a beneficiary
of the trust or to or for the use or benefit of any person whom
he or she has an obligation to support, and, in each such event,
the other Trustee or Trustees, if any, shall make all decisions
relating to such trust that pertain to such matters.
SECOND: Continuing Trusts for
Descendants of the Grantor.
A. If, under any provision of this Trust Agreement,
any property is directed to be paid to a descendant of the
Grantor subject to the provisions of this Article, such property
shall not be distributed or paid to such descendant. Instead,
the Trustees shall continue to hold such property, IN TRUST (in
a separate trust for each such descendant which is referred to
in this Article as "such descendant's trust"; provided, however,
that if there shall be property so directed to be paid on more
than one occasion to any such descendant, all such property
shall be held in a single trust for such descendant), and, so
long as such descendant shall live before attaining the age of
twenty-one (21) years, the Trustees, other than such descendant
if he or she shall be a Trustee hereunder, are authorized and
empowered to pay to, or apply for the use or benefit of, such
descendant, such part, parts or all, if any, of the net income
of such descendant's trust, and at such time or times, as said
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Trustees, in their discretion, shall determine, and the Trustees
shall accumulate the balance of such net income, if any, and, at
least annually, add it to the principal of such descendant's
trust, and, so long as such descendant shall live after attain-
ing the age of twenty-one (21) years, the Trustees shall pay to
such descendant all of the net income of such descendant's trust
in at least quarterly installments.
B. The Trustees, other than such descendant if he or
she shall be a Trustee hereunder, are authorized and empowered
to pay to, or apply for the use or benefit of, such descendant,
such part, parts or all, if any, of the principal of such
descendant's trust, and at such time or times, as said Trustees,
in their discretion, shall determine, without regard to the
interest in such trust of any other person and without regard to
the fact that any such payment or application may result in the
termination of such trust.
C. Upon the death of such descendant (hereinafter
referred to in this Section as "such deceased descendant"), the
Trustees shall pay the then principal of such deceased descen-
dant's trust, together with all net income thereof accrued but
not yet collected, and collected but not yet disposed of, in
such equal or unequal amounts or proportions, to or for the use
or benefit of such one or more persons, firms, corporations,
associations or governmental bodies (specifically excluding,
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however, such deceased descendant, the creditors of such
deceased descendant, the estate of such deceased descendant, and
the creditors of the estate of such deceased descendant), and
upon such terms, conditions and trusts, if any, as such deceased
descendant, by a provision in his or her Will expressly refer-
ring to this Article of this Will, shall validly direct and
appoint. If, or to the extent that, such deceased descendant
shall fail so expressly and so validly to direct and appoint
such principal and income, the Trustees shall, at the death of
such deceased descendant, pay the unappointed trust property,
or, as the case may be, all thereof, per stirpes, to such of the
descendants of such deceased descendant as shall survive such
deceased descendant, subject, however, to the provisions of this
Article, or, if no such descendant shall so survive, per
stirpes, to such of the descendants as shall so survive of the
ancestor of such deceased descendant closest in degree of rela-
tionship to such deceased descendant who (i) shall have descen-
dants who shall so survive and (ii) shall have been a descendant
of the Grantor or shall have been the Grantor, subject, however,
to the provisions of this Article, or, if no such descendant
shall so survive, in accordance with the provisions of Article
THIRD hereof.
D. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
each trust created by the terms of this Article shall terminate,
if not sooner terminated, upon the expiration of twenty-one (21)
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years after the death of the last survivor of (i) the Grantor,
(ii) the Grantor's spouse, DEBRA R. BLACK, and (iii) each
descendant of the Grantor who shall have been living on the date
hereof; and the Trustees shall thereupon pay the then principal
of any trust terminated in accordance with the provisions of
this Section, together with all net income thereof accrued but
not yet collected and collected but not yet disposed of, to the
descendant of the Grantor with respect to whom such trust is
being held.
THIRD: Disposition of Property if No Descendant
of the Grantor is Living.
A. As used in this Article:
1. The words "such time" shall mean the time as
of which any property is directed to be paid in accordance with
the provisions of this Article.
2. The words "Qualified Charitable Organiza-
tion" shall mean and refer to an organization which at such time
is described in §170(c)(2), §2055(a) and §2522(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code, and is then an organization exempt from
taxation under §501(a) of said Code as an organization described
in §501(c)(3) of said Code.
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B. If, under any provision of this Trust Agreement,
any property is directed to be paid in accordance with the pro-
visions of this Article, the Trustees shall pay such property to
the LEON BLACK FAMILY FOUNDATION, INC. (the "Foundation"), if it
is a Qualified Charitable Organization. It is the Grantor's
desire that the directors of the Foundation expend such property
for the following purposes:
1. TWENTY-FIVE (25%) PERCENT thereof shall be
used to promote medical research;
2. TWENTY-FIVE (25%) PERCENT thereof shall be
used to promote Judaica;
3. TWENTY-FIVE (25%) PERCENT thereof shall be
used to promote art and culture; and
4. TWENTY-FIVE (25%) PERCENT thereof shall be
used to promote education.
If the Foundation is not a Qualified Charitable
Organization, such property shall be paid to such one or more
Qualified Charitable Organizations and in such amounts or
proportions as the Trustees, in their sole discretion, shall
determine, provided, however, that such property shall be used
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for the purposes provided in paragraphs 1 through 4 inclusive of
this Section B.
FOURTH: Additions to the Trusts.
Any person, including the Grantor, by a transfer to
take effect during the life of such person or upon the death of
such person, may, at any time or times, add to the principal of
any trust hereunder any property of any kind or nature
acceptable to the Trustees, including insurance policies on the
life of the Grantor or of any other person, and any such
additional property so received by the Trustees pursuant to the
provisions of this Article shall thereafter be deemed to be part
of the principal of such trust subject to all of the terms, pro-
visions and conditions of this Trust Agreement.
FIFTH: Irrevocability.
This Trust Agreement and the trusts hereby created are
irrevocable and not subject to amendment or change.
SIXTH: Governing Law.
This Trust Agreement and the trusts hereby created
shall be governed by the laws of the State of Colorado.
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SEVENTH: Trustees.
A. The initial Trustee acting hereunder shall be
NORMAN BROWNSTEIN.
B. If NORMAN BROWNSTEIN shall cease to act as
Trustee hereunder, the successor Trustee hereunder to act in his
place and stead shall be JOHN HANNAN (now residing at 1133 Fifth
Avenue, New York, New York 10128).
C. Each individual acting as a Trustee hereunder
(whether such Trustee is initially a party to this Trust Agree-
ment or a successor or additional Trustee named in Section B of
this Article or appointed pursuant to the provisions of
Section D of this Article or of this Section C) is authorized
and empowered to appoint another individual (other than the
Grantor or the Grantor's spouse, DEBRA R. BLACK) to act in his
or her place and stead as a Trustee hereunder; provided,
however, that no such appointment made by NORMAN BROWNSTEIN
shall be effective if, in accordance with the provisions of
Section B of this Article, he shall be succeeded as a Trustee
hereunder by JOHN HANNAN.
D. 1. It is the Grantor's wish that, so long as
any trust hereunder shall continue, there shall at all times be
at least one Trustee (and there may be as many as three (3)
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Trustees) acting hereunder. Therefore, at any time prior to the
termination of any such trust:
(a) If there shall be a single Trustee
acting hereunder, he or she is authorized and empowered (but he
or she is not directed), to appoint another individual (other
than the Grantor or the Grantor's spouse, DEBRA R. BLACK) to act
as an additional Trustee hereunder.
(b) If there shall be two (2) Trustees
acting hereunder, the then acting Trustees hereunder are
authorized and empowered (but they are not directed), acting
unanimously, to appoint another individual (other than the
Grantor or the Grantor's spouse, DEBRA R. BLACK) to act with
them as an additional Trustee hereunder.
2. At any time when there shall be fewer than
three (3) Trustees acting hereunder, such fewer Trustees (or, as
the case may be, such sole Trustee) shall have the right to
exercise all rights and powers of the Trustees hereunder;
provided, however, that no such Trustee shall thereby be
permitted to exercise any authority or power which such Trustee
shall be prohibited from exercising by an express provision of
this Trust Agreement.
E. Each appointment of a successor or additional
Trustee hereunder made pursuant to the provisions of Section C
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or Section D of this Article shall be made by the execution of
an instrument of appointment signed and acknowledged by the
Trustee or Trustees who shall have made such appointment and by
delivering such instrument or a copy thereof in person or by
sending the same by registered or certified mail to each
successor or additional Trustee therein named, and also
delivering the same in accordance with the provisions of Section
I of this Article; and any such appointment may be revoked in
the same manner by the Trustee or Trustees who shall have made
it at any time before the occurrence of the event or events as
of which such appointment shall, by its provisions, become
effective. Any appointment made in accordance with the provi-
sions of Section C or Section D of this Article shall be valid
only if the successor or additional Trustee so appointed shall,
within forty-five (45) days after the later of (i) the date on
which a copy of such instrument of appointment is delivered to
him or her, and (ii) the occurrence of the event or events as of
which such appointment shall, by its provisions, become effec-
tive, qualify as a successor or additional Trustee hereunder in
accordance with the provisions of Section F of this Article.
F. Each successor or additional Trustee hereunder
shall qualify as such by accepting the trusteeship by the
execution of a signed and acknowledged instrument of acceptance
and by delivering such instrument in accordance with the provi-
sions of Section I of this Article.
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G. Any individual Trustee hereunder may resign as
such a Trustee by the execution of a signed and acknowledged
instrument of resignation and by delivering such instrument in
accordance with the provisions of Section I of this Article.
Any such resignation shall become effective upon the receipt of
such instrument of resignation by each individual to whom it is
delivered or mailed as aforesaid or at such later date as may be
specified therein.
H. If any individual while acting as a Trustee here-
under shall become incapable of discharging his or her
responsibilities and duties as such a Trustee by reason of a
physical, emotional or intellectual incapacity and such incapa-
city shall be confirmed by each of two medical doctors in
written statements, copies of which shall be delivered or mailed
as hereinafter provided, the individual who is so incapacitated
shall be deemed for the purposes of construing and applying all
of the provisions of this Trust Agreement to have effectively
resigned as such Trustee in compliance with the provisions of
Section G of this Article, such resignation to be deemed to be
effective upon the delivery or mailing of the aforesaid
statements as hereinafter provided. Each of the aforesaid
statements shall be signed by the medical doctor making the same
and copies of the same shall be delivered in accordance with
Section I of this Article and, in addition, a copy thereof shall
be delivered in person or sent by registered or certified mail
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to each individual, if any, who will become a successor Trustee
hereunder in the place and stead of the incapacitated Trustee to
whom such statement pertains.
I. Each instrument or statement directed to be
delivered in accordance with the provisions of this Section I
shall be deemed to be so delivered if it or a copy of it is
delivered in person or sent by registered or certified mail to
each Trustee, if any, then acting hereunder (other than the
Trustee, if any, who shall have executed such instrument or the
incapacitated Trustee, if any, to whom such statement pertains),
and also to any one or more of (i) the Grantor (or, if the
Grantor shall then be incapacitated, to the guardian or other
fiduciary, if any, appointed for the Grantor, or, if the Grantor
shall not then be living, to the executors, administrators or
personal representatives, if any, of the Grantor's estate), (ii)
any adult individual to whom or for whose use or benefit the
income of any trust hereunder may then be paid or applied, or
(iii) either parent or the guardian or other fiduciary appointed
for any minor or incapacitated individual to whom or for whose
use or benefit the income of any trust hereunder may then be
paid or applied.
J. I. As used in this Section, the words "Trustee-
Beneficiary" shall mean and refer to a Trustee of any trust
hereunder who shall, individually, then be a person to whom or
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for whose use or benefit the income and/or principal of such
trust and/or any other trust hereunder may then be paid or
applied in the discretion of the Trustees of such trust or
trusts.
2. Notwithstanding anything herein to the con-
trary, if at any time there shall be more than one Trustee-Bene-
ficiary, in every instance where the Trustees are authorized and
empowered, in their discretion, to pay and/or apply the income
and/or the principal of any trust hereunder to or for the use or
benefit of the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such trust, then,
so long as there shall continue to be more than one Trustee-
Beneficiary, any Trustee of such trust who is a Trustee-
Beneficiary shall (unless otherwise prohibited from doing so by
an express provision of this Trust Agreement) be authorized and
empowered to participate in the decision to pay and/or apply the
income and/or the principal of such trust to or for the use or
benefit of any other Trustee-Beneficiary who shall be a
permissible beneficiary of such trust only if such payment or
application shall be for the health, education, maintenance or
support of such other Trustee-Beneficiary.
3. The limitation set forth in paragraph 2 of
this Section with respect to the power and authority of any
Trustee who shall be a Trustee-Beneficiary shall in no way serve
as a limitation with respect to the power and authority of any
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Trustee hereunder who shall not be a Trustee-Beneficiary, and if
and so long as there shall at any time be more than one Trustee-
Beneficiary, the Trustee or Trustees hereunder, if any, other
than any Trustee who shall be a Trustee-Beneficiary shall alone
be vested with the power and authority to participate in the
exercise of discretion pertaining to the payment and application
of income and/or principal in which, under the limitation set
forth in said paragraph 2, any Trustee hereunder who is a
Trustee-Beneficiary shall not be permitted to participate.
K. No bond or other security shall be given by or
required in any jurisdiction (whether in the State of Colorado
or elsewhere) of any Trustee at any time acting hereunder
(whether such Trustee is named herein or appointed pursuant to
the provisions hereof) for the faithful performance of such
Trustee's fiduciary duties in any capacity hereunder regardless
of whether such Trustee is or may become a non-resident of the
State of Colorado or elsewhere.
EIGHTH: Compensation of Trustees.
A. So long as either the Grantor or his spouse,
DEBRA R. BLACK, shall live, no Trustee hereunder, whether such
Trustee is hereinabove named or appointed pursuant to the provi-
sions hereof, shall be entitled to any compensation (other than
reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses) for services rendered
as a Trustee hereunder; and each Trustee who is a party to this
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Trust -Agreement or who qualifies as a successor Trustee
hereunder as provided herein shall be deemed to have agreed to
serve as such Trustee during the life of the Grantor without
receiving any such compensation.
B. From and after the death of both the Grantor and
his said spouse, each Trustee hereunder, whether such Trustee is
hereinabove named or appointed pursuant to the provisions
hereof, shall be entitled to compensation equal to the Trustee's
commissions payable from time to time at the rates set forth
under the laws of the State of Colorado, unless such Trustee
shall have agreed in writing to accept a lesser rate of
compensation for serving as a Trustee hereunder, in which event
such Trustee shall be compensated at the lesser rate so agreed
upon.
NINTH: Authority with Respect to Life
Insurance Policies.
A. In addition to and in amplification of all other
authority and powers given to the Trustees by law and the other
provisions of this Trust Agreement, the Trustees, but solely in
their fiduciary capacities, are hereby authorized and empowered,
in their discretion, to accept, apply for, and maintain as part
of the principal of any trust held hereunder policies of life
insurance under which the Grantor, his said spouse and/or any
other person shall be the insured. All references in this
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Article to the "insurance policies" shall mean and refer to any
such policy that may at any time be held in any trust hereunder.
B. The Trustees shall be vested with all right,
title and interest in and to the insurance policies, and all
incidents of ownership thereof, and are authorized and empowered
to exercise and enjoy, as though absolute owners of the insur-
ance policies, all of the options, benefits, rights, and privi-
leges thereunder as fully as any owner thereof might do, includ-
ing (without limiting the foregoing) the right to change the
beneficiary of any such policy in favor of themselves as
Trustees or in favor of any person or persons to whom such
policy may be paid, assigned or distributed pursuant to any pro-
vision hereof, surrender or cancel the same, convert any policy
into another type of policy, borrow against the same, assign the
same and revoke assignments, pledge the same for loans, obtain
loans against the cash surrender value thereof, and to exercise
settlement options. The insurance companies whibh have issued
the insurance policies are hereby authorized and directed to
recognize the Trustees as absolute owners of the insurance
policies and as fully entitled to all options, rights,
privileges and interests thereunder, and any receipts, releases
and other instruments executed by the Trustees in connection
with the insurance policies shall be binding and conclusive upon
the insurance companies and upon all persons then or thereafter
interested in any trust hereunder.
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C. The Trustees shall be under no duty or obligation
(i) to make inquiry as to the economic condition or solvency of
the insurance companies which have issued the insurance poli-
cies, (ii) to pay the premiums, dues, assessments and other
charges which may become due and payable on the insurance poli-
cies or any of them, (iii) to see that such payments are made by
the insured thereunder or by any other person, (iv) to notify
such insured or any other person that such payments are or will
become due or (v) to forward premium notices to such insured or
any other person. The Trustees shall not be liable or account-
able to anyone in case such premiums, dues, assessments and
other charges are not paid or for any result of the failure to
make such payments. The Trustees are authorized and empowered,
but not obligated, to borrow upon any of the insurance policies
and to make premium payments from the funds so derived, to use
or apply any of the principal and income of any trust hereunder
to pay premiums upon any of the insurance policies held in said
trust, to require that current dividends on any of the insurance
policies (and interest on dividends, if any, accumulated prior
to delivery of any of the insurance policies) shall be applied
by the insurance company in the reduction of premiums thereafter
payable on the same, and to require that any current dividends
may be applied by the insurance company for the purchase of
additional paid-up insurance on any of the insurance policies,
payable to the Trustees, as owners thereof. The Trustees are
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authorized and empowered to execute and deliver any instruments
required in connection with the foregoing.
D. The Trustees may request (without being obligated
to do so) of any insurance company provision that, in the event
the premium on any of the insurance policies is not paid upon
the due date or within any period of grace thereafter, such
insurance company shall forthwith automatically loan the amount
required to pay such premium or the unpaid balance thereof, and
charge the same as an indebtedness against such policy, or if
such policy shall not be sufficient security for such loan, to
forthwith convert such policy into paid-up insurance, payable to
the Trustees, as owners thereof. All cash dividends thereafter
received on any such converted policy may in the discretion of
the Trustees be applied by such insurance company for additional
paid-up insurance, and any such policy shall be made payable to
the Trustees, as owners thereof, or to the person or persons to
whom such policy may be paid, assigned or distributed pursuant
to any other provision hereof. The Trustees may execute and
deliver any instruments required in connection with the fore-
going. The Trustees shall be under no duty or obligation to
exercise any benefit, option or privilege granted by any of the
insurance policies and the Trustees shall not be liable or
accountable to any one for the non-exercise by the Trustees of
any benefit, option or privilege. The Trustees are authorized
and empowered, but not obligated, to pay or cause to be paid any
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interest upon any loan made by any insurance company which is
charged as indebtedness against any of the insurance policies or
to require that such interest may be added to the existing
indebtedness charged against such policy.
E. All proceeds of any of the insurance policies
received by the Trustees of any trust hereunder shall be deemed
to be principal of such trust. As used herein, the term
"proceeds" shall mean and include double or additional indem-
nity, if any, and cash surrender value, if any of the insurance
policies are surrendered.
F. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
if any Trustee hereunder shall be an insured under any of the
insurance policies, such Trustee shall not have any voice or
vote or otherwise be permitted to participate in any manner,
directly or indirectly, with respect to any of the rights,
powers, authority and discretion herein granted to the Trustees
with respect to such policy, and, in such event, all such
rights, powers, authorities, and discretion pertaining to such
policy shall be exercised exclusively by the Trustee or Trustees
hereunder other than the Trustee who shall be the insured under
such policy.
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TENTH: Settlement of Trustees' Accounts;
Exoneration of Trustees.
A. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the
Trustees shall not be required to file with or render to, and
the Grantor waives and excuses the filing with or rendering to,
any Court an account of their transactions or inventories, ac-
counts, statements or reports of principal and/or income with
respect to any trust created hereunder. Nevertheless, the
Trustees may at any time have their accounts judicially settled
with respect to any trust created hereunder, and in any such
proceeding it shall not be necessary to serve any person who is
under a disability if there is another party to the proceeding
who is not under any disability and who has the same interest as
the person who is under a disability, and, in such event, it
shall not be necessary to appoint a guardian ad litem for any
such party who is under a disability. The expenses of any such
account shall be a proper administration expense of the trust to
which such account relates.
B. If any Trustee shall resign as a Trustee here-
under, the continuing Trustee, if any, or, if there is no con-
tinuing Trustee, any successor Trustee who shall have qualified
to act in accordance with the provisions of Section F of Article
SEVENTH hereof, may deliver to the Trustee so resigning an
instrument whereby such resigning Trustee shall be released and
discharged, to the extent stated therein, of and from any and
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all accountability, liability and responsibility for acts or
omissions as Trustee. Any such release and discharge shall be
binding upon all persons, whether or not then in being, then or
thereafter interested in either the income or the principal of
any trust hereunder and shall have the force and effect of a
final decree, judgment or order of a court of competent juris-
diction rendered in an appropriate action or proceeding for the
judicial settlement of the account of such Trustee in which
jurisdiction was obtained of all necessary and proper parties.
The foregoing provisions, however, shall not preclude any
Trustee so resigning from having his or her account judicially
settled, and in any such proceeding it shall not be necessary to
serve any person who is under a disability if there is another
party to the proceeding who is not under any disability and who
has the same interest as the person who is under a disability,
and, in such event, it shall not be necessary to appoint a
guardian ad litem for any such party who is under a disability.
The expenses of any such judicial account rendered shall be a
proper administration expense of the trust to which such account
relates.
C. In addition to the foregoing, the Trustees are
hereby authorized, at any time and from time to time, with
respect to any trust hereunder, to settle the account of the
Trustees by agreement between the Trustees and the then adult
individual or individuals to whom or for whose use or benefit
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the income of such trust may then be paid or applied and the
adult or adults who would be entitled to the principal in case
such trust were to terminate at the time of such agreement,
excluding any such individual who is under a disability if there
is a party to the agreement who is not under any disability and
who has the same interest as the individual who is under a
disability, which agreement shall bind all persons, whether or
not then in being, then or thereafter interested in either the
income or the principal of such trust. Any such settlement
shall have the same force and effect as a final decree, judgment
or order of a court of competent jurisdiction rendered in an
appropriate action or proceeding for the judicial settlement of
such account in which jurisdiction was obtained of all necessary
and proper parties. The expenses of any such account shall be
a proper administration expense of such trust.
D. To the extent permitted by law, no Trustee shall
be accountable, liable or responsible for any act, default,
negligence, or omission of any other Trustee.
ELEVENTH: pefinitions.
Wherever used in this Trust Agreement:
1. The words "IN TRUST" shall mean "in trust,
nevertheless, to hold, manage, invest and reinvest, and, until
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payment thereof as hereinafter directed, to receive the income
thereof."
2. The word "pay" shall, where applicable, mean
"convey, transfer and pay" and the word "payment" shall, where
applicable, mean "conveyance, transfer and payment."
3. The words "descendant" and "descendants,"
when used with respect to any person, shall be deemed to include
(i) every individual who is born to such person, (ii) every
individual who is lawfully adopted by such person, and (iii)
every individual who is otherwise descended from such person,
whether by birth, or by lawful adoption, or by a combination
thereof.
4. The words "Internal Revenue Code" shall mean
and refer to the "United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(as amended from time to time)," and any reference to a specific
section, chapter or other provision of the Internal Revenue Code
shall mean and refer to said section, chapter or other provision
and any successor statute thereto pertaining to the same subject
matter as said section, chapter or other provision.
TWELFTH: Administrative Powers.
A. In addition to and in amplification of the powers
given by law to trustees, the Trustees, but solely in their
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fiduciary capacities, are hereby authorized and empowered, in
their discretion:
1. To sell, exchange, make contracts with
respect to, grant options on or otherwise dispose of, at public
or private sale, at such prices, on such terms (including sales
on credit with or without security) and at such time or times as
the Trustees shall determine, any property, real or personal,
which may at any time form part of any trust hereunder.
2. To lease, for such periods (whether or not
any such period shall extend beyond the period prescribed by law
or the probable term of any trust hereunder), on such terms and
conditions and at such time or times as the Trustees shall
determine, the whole or any portion or portions of any property,
real or personal, which may at any time form part of any trust
hereunder, whether the same be held in severalty or as
tenant-in-common with others or in a partnership, syndicate or
joint venture or otherwise, and release and convey any undivided
interest in any such property for the purpose of effecting par-
tition of the whole or any part thereof; and make, place, extend
or renew mortgages, pledges, building loan agreements or build-
ing loan mortgages upon or affecting any and all such property;
and make, execute and deliver such mortgages, pledges and agree-
ments, together with proper bonds, notes or other instruments of
indebtedness to accompany the same, and such extension or
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renewal agreements, as to the Trustees shall seem necessary,
advisable or proper; and also to repair, alter, reconstruct,
build upon or improve any such property and on such terms and at
such time or times as the Trustees shall determine, give and
grant to others the right so to do, or agree in, or so modify
any lease affecting any such property that the lessee may alter,
repair, reconstruct, build upon, improve, mortgage and pledge
any such property; and generally to make, alter and modify all
agreements, leases, mortgages, pledges, building loans, sales,
exchanges, transfers and conveyances of or affecting any such
property which the Trustees shall determine to be necessary,
advisable or proper for the preservation, improvement, enhance-
ment in value of, or betterment of or addition to, such prop-
erty.
3. To hold any part or all of the assets of any
trust hereunder invested in the same form of property in which
the same shall be invested when received by the Trustees, and
invest and reinvest the assets of any such trust, or any portion
thereof, in any form of investment which the Trustees may deter-
mine (including, without limitation, mutual funds, common trust
funds, investment trusts, general partnerships, limited part-
nerships and so-called discretionary funds or accounts in which
investment decisions with respect thereto are made in the dis-
cretion of the manager or managers of such accounts or funds),
whether or not such investment is of the nature prescribed by
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law as a legal investment for fiduciaries or is speculative in
nature, and without regard to the percentage of the assets of
such trust which such investment or similar investments may
constitute.
4. To vote in person or by proxy all stocks and
other securities held by any trust hereunder; grant, exercise,
sell or otherwise turn to account rights to subscribe for stock
and securities and options of any nature; amortize or refrain
from amortizing premiums on bonds or other securities which the
Trustees may purchase or receive; participate in reorganiza-
tions, mergers, liquidations or dissolutions, and contribute to
the expenses of, and deposit securities with, protective commit-
tees in connection therewith; participate in voting trusts; and
generally exercise, in respect of said stock and securities, all
rights, powers or privileges which may be lawfully exercised by
any person owning similar property in his or her own right.
5. To employ any investment counsel, corporate
custodians, agents, accountants, brokers and attorneys which the
Trustees may select and pay the charges thereof; and the Trust-
ees, or a partnership, corporation or other entity in which any
Trustee shall be interested, or by which any Trustee may be
employed, may be retained in any such capacity, and, in such
event, the charges which shall be payable to such Trustee, or to
any such partnership, corporation or other entity, shall be in
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addition to commissions or compensation otherwise allowable to
such Trustee and may be paid without prior judicial approval.
6. In any case in which the Trustees are autho-
rized or required to pay or distribute any share of any trust
hereunder, to make such payment or distribution in kind or in
cash or partly in each and, in connection therewith, to allocate
equal or unequal interests in, or amounts of, specific property
in satisfaction of such payment or distribution; provided,
however, that any property distributed in kind shall be valued,
for purposes of such distribution, at its fair market value on
the date of distribution.
7. To settle, adjust, compromise or submit to
arbitration any dispute, claim or controversy in which any trust
hereunder may be in any way interested.
8. To borrow money from any person, partner-
ship, corporation or other entity, who may be any Trustee or a
partnership, corporation or other entity in which any Trustee
may be interested, or by which any Trustee may be employed, for
the purpose of meeting any and all charges against any trust
hereunder or for any other purpose connected with the adminis-
tration, preservation, improvement or enhancement in value of
any such trust, and, in connection with any such borrowing, to
pledge, hypothecate or mortgage any part or all of the assets of
any such trust.
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18. To exercise all authority, powers, privi-
leges and discretion conferred in this Article after the termi-
nation of any trust created hereunder and until all of the
assets of such trust are fully distributed.
B. No person or party dealing with the Trustees
shall be bound to see to the application of any money or other
consideration paid by him, her or it to the Trustees.
C. Except with respect to property, if any, over
which (i) the Trustees, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph
1 of Section B of Article THIRTEENTH hereof, shall have created
a power in a trust beneficiary to appoint the same to the c
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