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2019 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates
Chapter 564-F - New Hampshire Foundation Act
Section 564-F:17-1703 - Cy Pres.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 564-F:17-1703 (2019)
564-F:17-1703 Cy Pres. –
(a) To the extent that a foundation is a charitable trust and one of its charitable purposes becomes impossible, impracticable, illegal, obsolete, ineffective, or prejudicial to the public interest to achieve, a court may apply cy pres for the following purposes:
(1) Modifying the foundation's certificate of formation or its bylaws; or
(2) Directing the foundation to apply or distribute some or all of its property to one or more charitable purposes that:
(A) Are useful to the community;
(B) Fulfills as nearly as possible the founder's charitable intent; and
(C) Do not violate any of the foundation's material purposes; or
(3) Terminating the foundation.
(b) Any of the following persons may commence a judicial proceeding seeking the application of cy pres to a foundation under this section:
(1) A foundation official;
(2) Unless the governing documents provide otherwise, a beneficiary; and
(3) The director of charitable trusts.
(a) To the extent that a foundation is a charitable trust and one of its charitable purposes becomes impossible, impracticable, illegal, obsolete, ineffective, or prejudicial to the public interest to achieve, a court may apply cy pres for the following purposes:
(1) Modifying the foundation's certificate of formation or its bylaws; or
(2) Directing the foundation to apply or distribute some or all of its property to one or more charitable purposes that:
(A) Are useful to the community;
(B) Fulfills as nearly as possible the founder's charitable intent; and
(C) Do not violate any of the foundation's material purposes; or
(3) Terminating the foundation.
(b) Any of the following persons may commence a judicial proceeding seeking the application of cy pres to a foundation under this section:
(1) A foundation official;
(2) Unless the governing documents provide otherwise, a beneficiary; and
(3) The director of charitable trusts.
Source. 2017, 257:47, eff. Oct. 1, 2017.
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