72-30-203. Donor's intention restricting expenditure of net appreciation. (1) Section 72-30-201 does not apply if the applicable gift instrument indicates the donor's intention that net appreciation shall not be expended.
(2) A restriction upon the expenditure of net appreciation may not be implied from a designation of a gift as an endowment or from a direction or authorization in the applicable gift instrument to use only "income", "interest", "dividends", or "rents, issues, or profits" or "to preserve the principal intact" or a direction which contains other words of similar import. This rule of construction applies to gift instruments executed or in effect before or after July 1, 1973.
History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 389, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 86-803.