Opinion ID: 2622122
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Trust Is Free From De Facto Control By The City

Text: ¶12 The record is devoid of any facts to suggest the City exercises control over the Zoo Trust's employees. The trust instrument itself does not confer any control upon the City. [27] ¶13 The Trust's acceptance by the City confers on the latter no operational powers over the Trust which could be exercised before the Trust's legal dissolution. The record does not hence support an employment relationship between the Zoo Trust's employees and the City. The latter neither possesses nor exercises de facto or de jure control over the Trust's employees. ¶14 This court is mindful that a public trust may be declared to be illusory [28] upon a judicial finding of a sham fabricated by one to circumvent one's obligations under the Act. An illusory trust might be declared subject to the terms of the Act. Upon this record, the Trust does not exhibit any features that would suggest it is merely an illusory entity.