Rhode Island § 18-10-2 - Registration of Securities in Name of Nominee

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§ 18-10-2. Registration of Securities in Name of Nominee

R.I. Gen. Laws § 18-10-2

§ 18-10-2. Direction for registration by individual fiduciary.

(a) Any individual or individuals acting as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, testamentary trustee, or trustee under any other instrument is and are authorized, respectively, to direct any trust company or national banking association doing business in this state to cause any property deposited with the trust company or national banking association by the individual or individuals as fiduciary or fiduciaries to be registered and held in the name of a nominee or nominees of the trust company or national banking association, which nominee or nominees may be an individual or individuals, a partnership, or a corporation, without mention of the trust or fiduciary relationship in the certificate or other instrument or document representing the property or evidencing the title to the property.

(b) The trust company or national banking association shall not redeliver the property to the individual fiduciary or fiduciaries, causing any property to be registered in the name of a nominee or nominees of the trust company or national banking association, without first causing the property to be registered in the name of the individual fiduciary or fiduciaries as redelivered property.

(c) Any sale of the property made by the trust company or national banking association at the direction of the individual fiduciary or fiduciaries shall not be construed to be a redelivery.

(d) The trust company or national banking association may make any disposition of the property authorized or directed in any order or decree of any court having jurisdiction of the property.

History of Section.
P.L. 1958, ch. 101, § 2.

Source: official Rhode Island text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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