Title 21 — Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]
17 chapters · 331 sections in this title.
D.C. Code § 21-1202 Self-administration of medication by program participants
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A program participant may self-administer medication provided that: (1) The program participant has been assessed by a registered nurse to have the ability to self-administer medication; (2) The self-administration of medication is monitored; and (3) The program participant’s sel…
D.C. Code § 21-1203 Administration of medication to program participants by trained employees
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(a) Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation, a program employee who has been trained in accordance with § 21-1205(b) may administer prescription or nonprescription medication to a program participant in compliance with the signed, written instructions of a licensed pra…
D.C. Code § 21-1204 Requirements of medication orders
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(a) The written instructions of the licensed practitioner shall state the name of the program participant who is to receive medication, the name of the medication, name and telephone number of the licensed practitioner, the time of administration, dosage, method of administration…
D.C. Code § 21-1205 Rules and regulations for implementation
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(a) Within 90 days of the effective date of this chapter, the Mayor shall issue proposed rules and regulations to implement this chapter. The rules and regulations issued shall include procedures for: (1) Obtaining and filing written instructions and notification required by this…
D.C. Code § 21-1206 Fees
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The Mayor is authorized to charge a registration fee to applicants certified as a trained medication employee.
D.C. Code § 21-1301 Appointment of committee
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D.C. Code § 21-1302 Bond; powers and duties
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D.C. Code § 21-1303 Jurisdiction of court over property
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D.C. Code § 21-1304 Discharge
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D.C. Code § 21-1501 Appointment of conservators
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D.C. Code § 21-1502 Filing of petition; requirements; time and place of hearings; appointment of guardian ad litem
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D.C. Code § 21-1503 Bond; powers and duties
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D.C. Code § 21-1504 Discharge
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D.C. Code § 21-1505 Appointment of temporary conservator
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D.C. Code § 21-1506 Personal welfare of person under conservatorship
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D.C. Code § 21-1507 Lis pendens
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D.C. Code § 21-1701 Definitions
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(a) In this chapter unless the context otherwise requires: “bank” includes a person or association of persons, whether incorporated or not, carrying on the business of banking; “fiduciary” includes a trustee under a trust, express, implied, resulting or constructive, executor, ad…
D.C. Code § 21-1702 Application of payment made to fiduciaries
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A person who in good faith pays or transfers to a fiduciary money or other property which the fiduciary as such is authorized to receive, is not responsible for the proper application thereof by the fiduciary; and any right or title acquired from the fiduciary in consideration of…
D.C. Code § 21-1703 Transfer of negotiable instruments by fiduciary
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If a negotiable instrument payable or indorsed to a fiduciary as such is indorsed by the fiduciary, or if a negotiable instrument payable or indorsed to his principal is indorsed by a fiduciary empowered to indorse the instrument on behalf of his principal, the indorsee is not bo…
D.C. Code § 21-1704 Check drawn by fiduciary payable to third person
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If a check or other bill of exchange is drawn by a fiduciary as such, or in the name of his principal by a fiduciary empowered to draw such an instrument in the name of his principal, the payee is not bound to inquire whether the fiduciary is committing a breach of his obligation…
D.C. Code § 21-1705 Check drawn by and payable to fiduciary
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If a check or other bill of exchange is drawn by a fiduciary as such or in the name of his principal by a fiduciary empowered to draw such an instrument in the name of his principal, payable to the fiduciary personally, or payable to a third person and by him transferred to the f…
D.C. Code § 21-1706 Deposit in name of fiduciary as such
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If a deposit is made in a bank to the credit of a fiduciary as such, the bank is authorized to pay the amount of the deposit or any part thereof upon the check of the fiduciary, signed with the name in which the deposit is entered, without being liable to the principal, unless th…
D.C. Code § 21-1707 Deposit in name of principal; check drawn thereon by fiduciary; check payable to drawee bank
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If a check is drawn upon a bank account of his principal by a fiduciary who is empowered to draw checks upon his principal’s account, the bank is authorized to pay the checks without being liable to the principal, unless the bank pays the check with actual knowledge that the fidu…
D.C. Code § 21-1708 Conforming amendment
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When a fiduciary deposits in a bank to his personal credit checks: (1) drawn by him upon an account in his own name as fiduciary; or (2) payable to him as fiduciary; or (3) drawn by him upon an account in the name of his principal if he is empowered to draw checks thereon; or (4)…
D.C. Code § 21-1709 Deposit in names of two or more trustees
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When a deposit is made in a bank in the name of two or more persons as trustees and a check is drawn upon the trust account by any trustee authorized by the others to draw checks upon the trust account, neither the payee nor other holder nor the bank is bound to inquire whether i…
D.C. Code § 21-1710 Law not retroactive
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This chapter does not apply to transactions that took place prior to May 14, 1928.
D.C. Code § 21-1711 Cases not provided for by chapter
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In a case not provided for by this chapter the rules of law and equity, including the law merchant and those rules of law and equity relating to trusts, agency, negotiable instruments, and banking, continue to apply.
D.C. Code § 21-1712 Short title
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This subchapter may be cited as the “Uniform Fiduciaries Act”.
D.C. Code § 21-1721 Investment of trust assets
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D.C. Code § 21-1722 Prohibition from exercising powers conferred upon trustee
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(a) For purposes of this section, the term: (1) “Adverse party” shall have the same meaning as construed under § 672 of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder. (2) “Ascertainable standard relating to the trustee’s health, education, support, and main…
D.C. Code § 21-1801 Charitable and split-interest trusts
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(a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the governing instrument or under any law applicable to the District of Columbia (except as provided in subsection (e) of this section), the governing instrument of any trust which is treated during a particular year as a priva…
D.C. Code § 21-1901 Petition for appointment of receiver, where absentees interested in property; Corporation Counsel as party
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D.C. Code § 21-1902 Warrant to United States marshal; fees of marshal
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D.C. Code § 21-1903 Notice of hearing to absentee and interested parties
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D.C. Code § 21-1904 Time of hearing; publication and posting of notice
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D.C. Code § 21-1905 Appointment of receiver; bond; finding of date of disappearance
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D.C. Code § 21-1906 Transfer of property to receiver; schedule of property
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D.C. Code § 21-1907 Possession, by receiver, of additional property; collection of debts
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D.C. Code § 21-1908 Procedure where absentee left only debts due him; appointment of receiver
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D.C. Code § 21-1909 Care, custody, sale of property
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D.C. Code § 21-1910 Support of absentee’s spouse and minor children
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D.C. Code § 21-1911 Receiver may adjust claims of or against estate
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D.C. Code § 21-1912 Compensation of receiver; interest of absentee in property to cease after fourteen years
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D.C. Code § 21-1913 Distribution after fourteen years as if absentee had died intestate
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D.C. Code § 21-1914 Time for distribution and accounting when receiver not appointed within thirteen years
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D.C. Code § 21-1915 Construction with other laws
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D.C. Code § 21-2001 Rule of construction; purposes
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(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies. (b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are to: (1) Simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of missing individuals, protected individuals, and i…
D.C. Code § 21-2002 Supplementary general principles of law applicable
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(a) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity supplement its provisions. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall operate to repeal, alter, or amend the rights of an individual who is the subject of a petition for civil commitment in…
D.C. Code § 21-2003 Standard of proof
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In proceedings under this chapter for the appointment of a guardian or conservator, either general or limited, or subsequent proceedings in which the powers of a guardian or conservator are sought to be enlarged, the petitioner or moving party shall present clear and convincing e…
D.C. Code § 21-2004 Effect of a finding of incapacity
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A finding under this chapter that an individual is incapacitated shall not constitute a finding of legal incompetence. An individual found to be incapacitated shall retain all legal rights and abilities other than those expressly limited or curtailed in the order of appointment o…