1. A trustee shall make the following disbursements from principal:
(a) The remaining portion of the disbursements described in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 164.900;
(b) All the trustee’s compensation calculated on principal as a fee for acceptance, distribution or termination, and disbursements made to prepare property for sale;
(c) Payments on the principal of a trust debt;
(d) Expenses of a proceeding that concerns primarily principal, including a proceeding to construe the trust or to protect the trust or its property;
(e) Premiums paid on a policy of insurance not described in paragraph (d) of subsection 1 of NRS 164.900 of which the trust is the owner and beneficiary;
(f) Estate, inheritance and other transfer taxes, including penalties, apportioned to the trust; and
(g) Disbursements related to environmental matters, including reclamation, assessing environmental conditions, remedying and removing environmental contamination, monitoring remedial activities and the release of substances, preventing future releases of substances, collecting amounts from persons liable or potentially liable for the costs of those activities, penalties imposed under environmental laws or regulations and other payments made to comply with those laws or regulations, statutory or common law claims by third parties, and defending claims based on environmental matters.
2. If a principal asset is encumbered with an obligation that requires income from that asset to be paid directly to the creditor, the trustee shall transfer from principal to income an amount equal to the income paid to the creditor in reduction of the principal balance of the obligation.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1980; A 2007, 412; 2011, 1471)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 164 - Administration of Trusts
NRS 164.030 - Petition for instructions: Notice; hearing; final order; appeal.
NRS 164.037 - Petitions: Notice and hearing.
NRS 164.043 - Expenses and compensation of trustees.
NRS 164.067 - Power to sell, convey or encumber.
NRS 164.080 - Establishment; investments; management.
NRS 164.100 - Uniformity of interpretation.
NRS 164.130 - Transfer by court to district court in this State or court outside Nevada.
NRS 164.400 - Presentation; effect; form.
NRS 164.430 - Reliance upon facts contained in certification; enforceability.
NRS 164.440 - Failure to demand certification not improper act; liability.
NRS 164.645 - "Charitable purpose" defined.
NRS 164.647 - "Endowment fund" defined.
NRS 164.650 - "Gift instrument" defined.
NRS 164.653 - "Institution" defined.
NRS 164.655 - "Institutional fund" defined.
NRS 164.657 - "Person" defined.
NRS 164.660 - "Program-related asset" defined.
NRS 164.663 - "Record" defined.
NRS 164.665 - Standard of conduct in managing and investing institutional fund.
NRS 164.670 - Delegation of management and investment functions.
NRS 164.673 - Release or modification of restrictions on management, investment or purpose.
NRS 164.675 - Reviewing compliance.
NRS 164.677 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
NRS 164.680 - Uniformity of application and construction.
NRS 164.715 - Acting in interest of beneficiaries.
NRS 164.720 - Trust having two or more beneficiaries; impartial administration of trust or estate.
NRS 164.750 - Diversification of investments.
NRS 164.760 - Incurring costs.
NRS 164.765 - Determination of compliance with prudent investor rule.
NRS 164.775 - Terms and language of trust which authorize certain investments or strategies.
NRS 164.797 - Administration of unitrust: Duties of trustee; valuation of assets of trust.
NRS 164.798 - Administration of unitrust: Powers of trustee; manner of distributions.
NRS 164.800 - Applicable rules after death of decedent or end of income interest in trust.
NRS 164.835 - Accounting separately for business or other activity.
NRS 164.840 - Allocation of assets, money, property and other receipts to principal.
NRS 164.870 - Allocation of receipts from liquidating assets to income and principal.
NRS 164.905 - Disbursements required to be made from principal.
NRS 164.915 - Transfer of amount from income to principal to make certain principal disbursements.
NRS 164.920 - Payment of taxes required to be paid by trustee.
NRS 164.960 - Applicability of NRS 111.781 to transfers of property made pursuant to trust.