Certification of qualified trust by the Office of Government Ethics.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) (b) (i) A copy of the proposed, unexecuted trust instrument; (ii) A list of the assets which the interested party proposes to place in the trust; and (iii) In the case of a pre-existing trust as described in § 2634.409 which the interested party asks the Office of Government Ethics to certify, a copy of the pre-existing trust instrument and a list of that trust's assets categorized as to value in accordance with § 2634.301(d). (2) In order to assure timely trust certification, the interested parties and their representatives will be responsible for the expeditious submission to the Office of Government Ethics of all required documents and responses to requests for information. (3) The Director will indicate that he or she has certified the trust in a letter to the interested parties or their representatives. The interested party and the independent trustee may then execute the trust instrument. (4) Within 30 days after the trust is certified under this section by the Director, the interested party or that party's representative must file with the Director a copy of the executed trust instrument and all annexed schedules (other than those provisions which relate to the testamentary disposition of the trust assets), including a list of the assets which were transferred to the trust, categorized as to value of each asset in accordance with § 2634.301(d). (5) Once a trust is classified as a qualified blind or qualified diversified trust in the manner discussed in this section

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 2634.407