CHAPTER 36. ESTATES AND PROPERTY.

ARTICLE 8. UNIFORM UNCLAIMED PROPERTY ACT.

§36-8-5. Dormancy charge.

A holder may deduct from property presumed abandoned a charge imposed by reason of the owner's failure to claim the property within a specified time only if there is a valid and enforceable written contract between the holder and the owner under which the holder may impose the charge and the holder regularly imposes the charge, which is not regularly reversed or otherwise canceled. The amount of the deduction is limited to an amount that is not unconscionable.

Bill History For §36-8-5

1983 Regular Session
House Bill 1454
1966 Regular Session
House Bill 205