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§ 100. Fiduciary  powers.  Every  trust company shall have, subject to
the  restrictions  and  limitations  contained  in  this  chapter,   the
following powers:
  1.  To  act  as the fiscal or transfer agent of the United States, any
state, municipality, body politic or corporation; and in  such  capacity
to  receive  and  disburse  money, to transfer, register and countersign
certificates of stock, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness or other
securities, and to act as attorney in fact or agent  of  any  person  or
corporation, foreign or domestic, for any lawful purpose.
  2.  To  act  as  trustee  under  any  mortgage  or bonds issued by any
municipality, body politic or  corporation,  foreign  or  domestic,  and
accept and execute any other municipal or corporate trust not prohibited
by the laws of this state.
  3.  To  be  appointed and to act under the order or appointment of any
court of competent jurisdiction:

(a) As guardian, receiver, trustee, committee or conservator of the estate of any minor, person with a mental disability, or conservatee or in any other fiduciary capacity;

(b) As receiver, trustee, or committee of the property or estate of any person in insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings. 4. To be appointed and to accept the appointment of executor or of trustee under the last will and testament or administrator with or without the will annexed of the estate of any deceased person. 5. To take, accept and execute any and all such trusts, duties and powers of whatever nature or description as may be conferred upon or entrusted or committed to it by any person or persons, or any body politic, corporation, domestic or foreign, or other authority by grant, assignment, transfer, devise, bequest or otherwise, or which may be entrusted or committed or transferred to it or vested in it by order of any court of competent jurisdiction, or any surrogate, and to receive, take, manage, hold and dispose of according to the terms of such trust, duty or power, any property or estate, real or personal, which may be the subject of any such trust, duty or power. Provided that no trust company shall have any right or power to make any contract, or to accept or execute any trust whatever, which it would not be lawful for any individual to make, accept or execute.