79-11-601 - Definitions. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 79-11-601. Definitions.
 

For the purposes of Sections 79-11-601 through 79-11-617: 
 

(a) "Institution" means an incorporated or unincorporated organization organized and operated exclusively for educational, religious, charitable or other eleemosynary purposes, or a governmental organization to the extent that it holds funds exclusively for any of these purposes. 

(b) "Institutional fund" means a fund held by an institution for its exclusive use, benefit or purposes, but does not include (i) a fund held for an institution by a trustee that is not an institution, or (ii) a fund in which a beneficiary that is not an institution has an interest, other than possible rights that could arise upon violation or failure of the purposes of the fund. 

(c) "Endowment fund" means an institutional fund, or any part thereof, not wholly expendable by the institution on a current basis under the terms of the applicable gift instrument. 

(d) "Governing board" means the body responsible for the management of an institution or of an institutional fund. 

(e) "Historic dollar value" means the aggregate fair value in dollars of (i) an endowment fund at the time it became an endowment fund, (ii) each subsequent donation to the fund at the time it is made, and (iii) each accumulation made pursuant to a direction in the applicable gift instrument at the time the accumulation is added to the fund. The determination of historic dollar value made in good faith by the institution is conclusive. 

(f) "Gift instrument" means a will, deed, grant, conveyance, agreement, memorandum, writing or other governing document, including the terms of any institutional solicitations from which an institutional fund resulted, under which property is transferred to or held by an institution as an institutional fund. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1998, ch. 417, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1998.