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N.Y. GBS Law § 1303

This is the official text of N.Y. GBS Law § 1303, part of New York’s GBS Law — part of the compiled statutory law of New York, published by the state as "GBS Law." Browse the sections below, each linked to its official government source.

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Fiduciary duty

Official statutory text

§ 1303. Fiduciary duty. The board, the individual members of the\nboard, the trustees, any other agents appointed or engaged by the board,\nand all persons serving as program staff shall discharge their duties\nwith respect to the program solely in the interest of the program's\nenrollees and beneficiaries as follows:\n 1. for the exclusive purposes of providing benefits to enrollees and\nbeneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the\nprogram;\n 2. by investing with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under\nthe prevailing circumstances that a prudent person acting in a like\ncapacity and familiar with those matters would use in the conduct of an\nenterprise of a like character and with like aims; and\n 3. by using any contributions paid by employees, and employers\nremitting employees' own contributions into the fund exclusively for the\npurpose of paying benefits to the enrollees of the program, for the cost\nof administration of the program, and for investments made for the\nbenefit of the program.\n

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