(a) In general.--Any interest-bearing obligation, including bonds, notes, debentures, and car-trust certificates, issued, guaranteed, or assumed by, a corporation organized under the laws of the United States, of any commonwealth or state thereof, or of the District of Columbia, shall be an authorized investment if purchased or retained in the exercise of that degree of judgment and care, under the circumstances then prevailing, which men of prudence, discretion and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of their funds, considering the probable income to be derived therefrom as well as the probable safety of their capital.
(b) Definition.--As used in this section "corporation" shall include a voluntary association, a joint-stock association or company, a business trust, a Massachusetts trust, a common-law trust, a municipal or quasi-municipal corporation by whatever name called, and any other organization organized and existing for any lawful purpose and which, like a corporation, continues to exist notwithstanding changes in the personnel of its members or participants, and conducts its affairs through a committee, a board, or some other group acting in a representative capacity.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 73 - Municipalities Investments
Section 7301 - Definition of fiduciary
Section 7302 - Authorized investments; in general
Section 7303 - Government obligations
Section 7304 - Obligations of Federal organizations
Section 7305 - Obligations of Pennsylvania governmental organizations
Section 7307 - Corporate bonds
Section 7309 - Fractional interests
Section 7310.1 - Further investment authority
Section 7313 - Interest-bearing deposit
Section 7314 - Common trust fund and mortgage investment fund
Section 7315 - Retention of investments
Section 7315.1 - Retention of cash; temporary investments
Section 7316 - Life insurance, building and loan shares, and similar assets
Section 7317 - Investments which become unauthorized