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EXHIBIT (g)
MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT dated as of March 27, 1995, between COLONIAL INVESTMENT GRADE
MUNICIPAL TRUST, a Massachusetts business trust (Fund), and COLONIAL MANAGEMENT
ASSOCIATES, INC., a Massachusetts corporation (Adviser).
In consideration of the promises and covenants herein, the parties agree as
follows:
1. The Adviser will manage the investment of the assets of the Fund in
accordance with its investment policies and will perform the other
services herein set forth, subject to the supervision of the Board of
Trustees of the Fund.
2. In carrying out its investment management obligations, the Adviser shall:
(a) evaluate such economic, statistical and financial information and
undertake such investment research as it shall believe advisable; (b)
purchase and sell securities and other investments for the Fund in
accordance with the procedures approved by the Board of Trustees; and
(c) report results to the Board of Trustees.
3. The Adviser shall furnish at its expense the following:
(a) office space, supplies, facilities and equipment; (b) executive and
other personnel for managing the affairs of the Fund (including
preparing financial information of the Fund and reports and tax returns
required to be filed with public authorities, but exclusive of those
related to custodial, transfer, dividend and plan agency services,
determination of net asset value and maintenance of records required by
Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the
rules thereunder (1940 Act)); and (c) compensation of Trustees who are
directors, officers, partners or employees of the Adviser or its
affiliated persons (other than a registered investment company).
4. The Adviser shall be free to render similar services to others so long
as its services hereunder are not impaired thereby.
5. The Fund shall pay the Adviser monthly a fee at the annual rate of 0.65%
of the average weekly net assets of the Fund.
6. If the operating expenses of the Fund for any fiscal year exceed the
most restrictive applicable expense limitation for any state in which
shares are sold, the Adviser's fee shall be reduced by the excess but
not to less than zero.
Operating expenses shall not include brokerage, interest, taxes,
deferred organization expenses and extraordinary expenses, if any. The
Adviser may waive its compensation (and, bear expenses of the Fund) to
the extent that expenses of the Fund exceed any expense limitation the
Adviser declares to be effective.
7. This Agreement shall become effective as of the date of its execution,
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(a) unless otherwise terminated, shall continue until two years from its
date of execution and from year to year thereafter so long as approved
annually in accordance with the 1940 Act; (b) may be terminated without
penalty on sixty days' written notice to the Adviser either by vote of
the Board of Trustees of the Fund or by vote of a majority of the
outstanding voting securities of the Fund; (c) shall automatically
terminate in the event of its assignment; and (d) may be terminated
without penalty by the Adviser on sixty days' written notice to the
Fund.
8. This Agreement may be amended in accordance with the 1940 Act.
9. For the purpose of the Agreement, the terms "vote of a majority of the
outstanding voting securities", "affiliated person" and "assignment"
shall have their respective meanings defined in the 1940 Act and
exemptions and interpretations issued by the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the 1940 Act.
10. In the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on
the part of the Adviser, or reckless disregard of its obligations and
duties hereunder, the Adviser shall not be subject to any liability to
the Fund, to any shareholder of the Fund or to any other person, firm or
organization, for any act or omission in the course of, or connected
with, rendering services hereunder.
COLONIAL INVESTMENT GRADE MUNICIPAL TRUST
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Title: Controller
COLONIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Title: Executive Vice President
A copy of the document establishing the Fund is filed with the Secretary of The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This Agreement is executed by officers not as
individuals and is not binding upon any of the Trustees, officers or
shareholders of the Fund individually but only upon the assets of the Fund.
