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      Sec. 36a-386. (Formerly Sec. 36-319a). Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. Self-sufficiency trusts. (a) Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall have the power to receive, by grant, assignment, transfer, devise, bequest or otherwise, any money, securities or other personal property, or any interest in real estate from any person or corporation in trust, to hold, manage or dispose of the same for the benefit of any person with disabilities or to accept or execute any such trust pursuant to the provisions of sections 36a-380 to 36a-386, inclusive, provided Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall be a nonprofit corporation incorporated in this state and shall be licensed in accordance with, and comply with the provisions of said sections. The purpose of such a trust shall be to assist the beneficiary in achieving and maintaining self-sufficiency.

      (b) Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall establish a charitable trust which shall benefit any person with disabilities for whom an individual trust has not been established. Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall charge each trust created under subsection (a) of this section an annual administrative fee, which shall not exceed the actual costs of administering such trusts. The grantor of a trust created under subsection (a) of this section may enter into an agreement whereby a percentage of the remainder of the trust may be transferred to the charitable trust upon the death of the beneficiary.

      (c) The board of directors of Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut, Inc. shall report, on or before June 30, 1991, and annually thereafter, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services and banks: (1) The number of beneficiaries for whom assets are placed in trust; (2) the amount held on behalf of each beneficiary; (3) the type of assets funding each trust; (4) the income earned by all such trusts; (5) the amount and purpose of any funds dispersed; (6) the number of grantors who agree to transfer a percentage of the remainder of a trust established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to the charitable trust and the percentage and amount transferred by each; and (7) an itemization of administrative costs.

      (P.A. 90-316.)

      History: Sec. 36-319a transferred to Sec. 36a-386 in 1995.