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164A.337 Endowment trust for student financial assistance benefits -- Authority to incorporate corporation to administer -- Annual report.

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164A.337 Endowment trust for student financial assistance benefits -- Authority to incorporate corporation to administer -- Annual report. (1) The board is authorized to incorporate an organization pursuant to KRS Chapter 273 for the eleemosynary, charitable, and educational purposes of administering an <br>endowment trust. The organization so created shall be an instrumentality of the <br>Commonwealth, but shall possess no part of the sovereign powers of the <br>Commonwealth. The corporation shall be created to qualify as a tax exempt <br>organization pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (2) The endowment trust created pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall solicit and accept gifts, grants, donations, bequests, or other endowments, including <br>general fund appropriations from the Commonwealth and grants from any federal or <br>other governmental agency, for the purposes of the endowment trust. (3) The endowment trust shall provide student financial assistance benefits, including, but not limited to, grants, scholarships, or loans to pay higher education costs of <br>members of the public, designated as beneficiaries of participation agreements <br>under the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust, who enroll in an institution of <br>higher education in Kentucky. (4) The board is authorized to transfer to the endowment trust, after its qualification under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, any funds or assets then held <br>in the endowment fund initially established pursuant to KRS 164A.335. (5) Any gifts, grants, or donations made by any governmental unit or any person, firm, partnership or corporation to the endowment trust shall be a grant, gift, or donation <br>for the accomplishment of a valid public, eleemosynary, charitable, and educational <br>purpose. (6) The endowment trust shall submit an annual audited report, in accordance with KRS 164A.365(1) and (2), to the program administrator not later than the fifteenth <br>of each September. Effective: July 14, 1992 <br>History: Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 190, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992.