Utah Code § 75A-4-102

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As used in this chapter:
(1) "Appointee" means a person to which a powerholder makes an appointment of appointive
property.
(2) "Appointive property" means the property or property interest subject to a power of
appointment.
(3)
(a) "Blanket-exercise clause" means a clause in an instrument that exercises a power of
appointment and is not a specific-exercise clause.
(b) "Blanket-exercise clause" includes a clause that:
(i) expressly uses the words "any power" in exercising any power of appointment the
powerholder has;
(ii) expressly uses the words "any property" in appointing any property over which the
powerholder has a power of appointment; or
(iii) disposes of all property subject to disposition by the powerholder.
(4) "Donor" means a person that creates a power of appointment.
(5) "Exclusionary power of appointment" means a power of appointment exercisable in favor of any
one or more of the permissible appointees to the exclusion of the other permissible appointees.
(6) "General power of appointment" means a power of appointment exercisable in favor of the
powerholder, the powerholder's estate, a creditor of the powerholder, or a creditor of the
powerholder's estate.
(7) "Gift-in-default clause" means a clause identifying a taker in default of appointment.
(8) "Impermissible appointee" means a person that is not a permissible appointee.
(9) "Instrument" means a record.
(10)
(a) "Nongeneral power of appointment" means a power of appointment that is not a general
power of appointment.
(b) "Nongeneral power of appointment" includes a special power of appointment, a limited power
of appointment, or similar terminology that is used in an instrument creating a power that does
not grant powers making it a general power of appointment.
(11) "Permissible appointee" means a person in whose favor a powerholder may exercise a power
of appointment.
(12) "Powerholder" means a person in whom a donor creates a power of appointment.
(13)
(a) "Power of appointment" means a power that enables a powerholder acting in a nonfiduciary
capacity to designate a recipient of an interest in, or another power of appointment over, the
appointive property.
(b) "Power of appointment" does not include a power of attorney.
(14)
(a) "Presently exercisable power of appointment" means a power of appointment exercisable by
the powerholder at a relevant time.

(b) "Presently exercisable power of appointment" includes a power of appointment not
exercisable until the occurrence of a specified event, the satisfaction of an ascertainable
standard, or the passage of a specified time only after:
(i) the occurrence of the specified event;
(ii) the satisfaction of the ascertainable standard; or
(iii) the passage of the specified time.
(c) "Presently exercisable power of appointment" does not include a power exercisable only at
the powerholder's death.
(15) "Specific-exercise clause" means a clause in an instrument that specifically refers to and
exercises a particular power of appointment.
(16) "Taker in default of appointment" means a person that takes all or part of the appointive
property to the extent the powerholder does not effectively exercise the power of appointment.
(17) "Terms of the instrument" means the manifestation of the intent of the maker of the instrument
regarding the instrument's provisions as expressed in the instrument or as may be established
by other evidence that would be admissible in a legal proceeding.

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