Indiana Code
Chapter 4. Authority Board of Directors and Officers
21-9-4-9. Acceptance of Gifts, Bequests, Donations, and Devises by Authority

Sec. 9. (a) The authority may accept gifts, bequests, donations, and devises of personal and real property:
(1) as trustees for the maintenance, use, or benefit of the authority, the education savings programs, or the endowment fund; or
(2) to be administered for other public or charitable purposes for the benefit or use of account owners or account beneficiaries.
(b) The authority may receive, accept, hold, administer, and use any property transferred to the authority by gift, bequest, donation, or devise in accordance with the terms, conditions, obligations, liabilities, and burdens imposed on the gift, bequest, donation, or devise if, in the judgment of the board, the action is in the best interest of the authority, the education savings programs, the endowment fund, account owners, contributors, or account beneficiaries, as applicable.
(c) The authority may accept a gift, devise, donation, or bequest made for the purpose of providing an annuity on conditions consistent with the conditions set forth in IC 21-30-3-3 and IC 21-30-3-4 (relating to boards of trustees of state educational institutions).
(d) The authority may, if not inconsistent with the terms and conditions of a gift of real property:
(1) sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of the real property; and
(2) invest, reinvest, or use the proceeds as, in the judgment of the board, is of the greatest benefit to the authority, the education savings programs, the endowment fund, account beneficiaries, and account owners.
(e) When acting under the powers granted by this article and also with respect to the money in the endowment fund and the program account as provided in IC 21-9-5 and IC 21-9-7, the members serve as trustees of private trusts, subject to the terms and conditions of the trust program or the gift, bequest, donation, or devise and law applicable to private trusts.
As added by P.L.165-1996, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.135-2002, SEC.20; P.L.2-2007, SEC.249.

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