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MS Code § 89-12-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-5. Presumed abandonment of property held or owing by bank or other business association

  Subject to the provisions of Sections 89-12-17 and 89-12-19, the following property held or owing by a banking or financial organization or by a business association shall be presumed abandoned:   Any demand, savings, or matured time deposit made in this state with a banking organization or financial organization, together with any interest or dividend thereon, excluding any charges that may have accrued, unless the owner has, within five (5) years:   Increased or decreased the amount of the deposit, or presented the passbook or other similar evidence of the deposit for the crediting of interest; or   Corresponded in writing with the banking organization or financial organization concerning the deposit; or   Otherwise indicated an interest in the deposit as evidenced by a memorandum on file with the banking organization or financial organization.     Any sum payable on checks certified in this state or on written instruments issued in this state on which a banking or financial organization or business association is directly liable, including, but not limited to, certificates of deposit, drafts, money orders and traveler's checks, that, with the exception of traveler's checks and money orders, has been outstanding for more than five (5) years from the date it was payable, or from the date of its issuance if payable on demand, or, in the case of traveler's checks, that has been outstanding for more than fifteen (15) years from the date of its issuance, or, in the case of money orders, that has been outstanding for more than seven (7) years from the date of its issuance, unless the owner has within five (5) years, or within fifteen (15) years in the case of traveler's checks or within seven (7) years in the case of money orders, corresponded in writing with the banking or financial organization or business association concerning it, or otherwise indicated an interest as evidenced by a memorandum on file with the banking or financial organization or business association.     Any certificate of deposit made in this state with a banking organization, together with an interest or dividend thereon, with a maturity date equal to or greater than ten (10) years shall be exempt from the time limit provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 89-12-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-7. Presumed abandonment of unclaimed funds held or owing by life insurance corporation

  Subject to the provisions of Section 89-12-17, funds held or owing by a life insurance corporation under any life or endowment insurance policy or annuity contract which has matured or terminated shall be presumed abandoned if unclaimed and unpaid for more than five (5) years after the funds became due and payable as established from the records of the corporation.   If a person other than the insured or annuitant is entitled to the funds and no address of such person is known to the corporation or if it is not definite and certain from the records of the corporation what person is entitled to the funds, it shall be presumed that the last known address of the person entitled to the funds is the same as the last known address of the insured or annuitant according to the records of the corporation. This presumption is a presumption affecting the burden of proof.   A life insurance policy not matured by actual proof of the death of the insured according to the records of the corporation shall be deemed to be matured and the proceeds due and payable if:   The insured has attained, or would have attained if he were living, the limiting age under the mortality table on which the reserve is based;   The policy was in force at the time the insured attained, or would have attained, the limiting age specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection; and   Neither the insured nor any other person appearing to have an interest in the policy has, within the preceding five (5) years, according to the records of the corporation:   Assigned, readjusted, or paid premiums on the policy,   Subjected the policy to loan, or   Corresponded in writing with the life insurance corporation concerning the policy.       Any funds otherwise payable according to the records of the corporation shall be deemed due and payable although the policy or contract has not been surrendered as required.
MS Code § 89-12-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-9. Presumed abandonment of funds held or owing by utility

 Subject to the provisions of Section 89-12-17 of this chapter, the following funds held or owing by any utility shall be presumed abandoned:   Any deposit made by a subscriber with a utility to secure payment for, or any sum paid in advance for, utility services to be furnished in this state, less any lawful deductions, that has remained unclaimed by the person appearing on the records of the utility entitled thereto for more than five (5) years after the termination of the services for which the deposit or advance payment was made.   Any sum which a utility has been ordered to refund and which was received for utility services rendered in this state, together with any interest thereon, less any lawful deduction, that has remained unclaimed by the person appearing on the records of the utility entitled thereto for more than five (5) years after the date it became payable in accordance with the final determination or order providing for the refund.
MS Code § 89-12-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-13. Presumed abandonment of intangible personal property held by fiduciary

 Subject to the provisions of Section 89-12-17, any intangible personal property and any income or increment thereon, held in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of another person shall be presumed abandoned unless the owner has, within five (5) years after it became payable or distributable, increased or decreased the principal, accepted payment of principal or income, corresponded in writing concerning the property or otherwise indicated an interest as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file with the fiduciary.
MS Code § 89-12-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-14. Presumed abandonment of intangible property held by business association, federal, state or local government or governmental subdivision, agency or entity

  All intangible property, including, but not limited to, any interest, dividend, or other earnings thereon, less any lawful charges, held by a business association, federal, state or local government or governmental subdivision, agency or entity, or any other person or entity, regardless of where the holder may be found, if the owner has not claimed or corresponded in writing concerning the property within five (5) years after the date prescribed for payment or delivery, is presumed abandoned and subject to the custody of this state as unclaimed property if:   The last known address of the owner is unknown; and   The person or entity originating or issuing the intangible property is this state or any political subdivision of this state, or is incorporated, organized, created or otherwise located in this state.     The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to property that is or may be presumed abandoned and subject to the custody of this state pursuant to any other provision of law containing a dormancy period different than that prescribed in subsection (1) of this section.   The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to all property held on July 1, 1991, or at any time thereafter, regardless of when such property became or becomes presumptively abandoned.   Insofar and only insofar as funds reflected by the cancellation of State of Mississippi warrants are unclaimed and presumed abandoned, the State Treasurer shall transfer such funds out of the Abandoned Property Fund established by Section 89-12-37 to the original fund source after the expiration of five (5) years as required herein.
MS Code § 89-12-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-15. Presumed abandonment of intangible personal property held in ordinary course of holder's business

 All intangible personal property not otherwise covered by the provisions of this chapter, including any income or increment thereon and deducting any charges that may have accrued, that is held in the ordinary course of the holder's business and has remained unclaimed by the owner for more than five (5) years after it became payable or distributable shall be presumed abandoned.
MS Code § 89-12-16 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-16. Presumed abandonment of tangible personal property or intangible personal property held by federal government, federal agency, or any officer or appointee thereof

  All tangible personal property or intangible personal property, including choses in action in amounts certain, and all debts owed or entrusted funds or other property held by the federal government, or any federal agency, or any officer, or appointee thereof, shall be presumed abandoned in this state if the last known address of the owner of the property is in this state and the property has remained unclaimed for five (5) years.   This section shall apply to all abandoned property held by the federal government, or any federal agency, or any officer, or any appointee thereof, on July 1, 1991, or at any time thereafter, regardless of when such property became presumptively abandoned.
MS Code § 89-12-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-17. Additional conditions for presumption of abandonment of intangible personal property

 Unless otherwise provided by statute of this state, intangible personal property shall be presumed abandoned under the provisions of this chapter if the conditions for presumption of abandonment stated in the provisions of this chapter exist, and if:   The last-known address of the apparent owner is in this state as shown on the records of the holder; or   No address of the apparent owner appears on the records of the holder, and   The last-known address of the apparent owner is in this state, or   The holder is domiciled in this state and has not previously paid the property to the state of the last-known address of the apparent owner, or   The holder is a government or governmental subdivision or agency of this state and has not previously paid the property to the state of the last-known address of the apparent owner; or   The last-known address of the apparent owner, as shown on the records of the holder, is in a state designated by regulation adopted by the treasurer as a state that does not provide by law for presumption of abandonment or escheat of such property and the holder is   Domiciled in this state, or   A government or governmental subdivision or agency of this state; or   The last-known address of the apparent owner, as shown on the records of the holder, is in a foreign nation and the holder is   Domiciled in this state, or   A government or governmental subdivision or agency of this state.
MS Code § 89-12-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-19. Additional conditions for presumption of abandonment of sum payable on money order, traveler's check and the like

 Any sum payable on a money order, traveler's check, or other similar written instrument (other than a third-party bank check) on which a business association is directly liable shall be presumed abandoned under the provisions of this chapter if the conditions for presumption of abandonment stated in Section 89-12-5 exist and if:   The books and records of such business association show that such money order, traveler's check, or similar written instrument was purchased in this state;   The business association has its principal place of business in this state, and the books and records of the business association do not show the state in which such money order, traveler's check, or similar written instrument was purchased; or   The business association has its principal place of business in this state, the books and records of the business association show the state in which such money order, traveler's check, or similar written instrument was purchased, and the laws of the state of purchase do not provide for presumption of abandonment or escheat of the sum payable on such instrument.
MS Code § 89-12-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-21. Recovery by another state of property paid or delivered to treasurer under this chapter

  At any time after property has been paid or delivered to the treasurer under the provisions of this chapter, another state shall be entitled to recover the property if:   The property was presumed abandoned in this state under the provisions of paragraph (b) of Section 89-12-17 because no address of the apparent owner of the property appeared on the records of the holder when the property was presumed abandoned under the provisions of this chapter, the last-known address of the apparent owner was, in fact, in such other state, and, under the laws of that state, the property was presumed abandoned in or escheated to that state;   The last-known address of the apparent owner of the property appearing on the records of the holder is in such other state and, under the laws of that state, the property was presumed abandoned in or escheated to that state;   The property is the sum payable on a traveler's check, money order, or other similar instrument that was presumed abandoned in this state under the provisions of Section 89-12-19, the traveler's check, money order or other similar instrument was, in fact, purchased in such other state, and, under the laws of that state, the property was presumed abandoned in or escheated to that state; or   The property is funds held or owing by a life insurance corporation that was presumed abandoned in this state by application of the presumption provided by subsection (2) of Section 89-12-7, the last-known address of the person entitled to the funds was, in fact, in such other state, and, under the laws of that state, the property was presumed abandoned in or escheated to that state.     The claim of another state under this section to recover property shall be presented in writing to the treasurer, who shall consider the claim within ninety (90) days after it is presented. He may hold a hearing and receive evidence on such claim. He shall allow the claim if he determines that the other state is entitled to the property.   Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) shall not apply to property described in paragraph (c) or (d) of that subsection.
MS Code § 89-12-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-25. Agreements to locate property presumed abandoned; prohibitions; approval

  It is unlawful for a person to seek to receive from another person or contract with a person for a fee or compensation for locating property which he knows has been reported, paid or delivered to the Treasurer pursuant to the provisions of this chapter prior to seven (7) months after the date of payment or delivery of the property by the holder to the Treasurer as required by Section 89-12-29.   The Treasurer shall approve all contracts entered into between two (2) or more persons whereby one (1) party to the contract agrees to furnish the other party with information concerning property reported to the Treasurer under this chapter. The agreed upon fee in such contracts shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the value of the recoverable property or Fifty Dollars ($50.00), whichever is greater. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent an owner from asserting at any time that an agreement to locate property is based upon an excessive or unjust consideration.
MS Code § 89-12-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-27. Published notice of names of persons appearing to own property presumed abandoned; mailed notice

  Within one hundred twenty (120) days from the filing of the report required by Section 89-12-23, the Treasurer shall cause notice to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the county of this state in which is located the last-known address of any person to be named in the notice. If no address is listed or if the address is outside this state, the notice shall be published in the county in which the holder of the abandoned property has his or her principal place of business in this state.   The published notice shall be entitled "Notice of names of persons appearing to be owners of abandoned property," and shall contain:   The names in alphabetical order and last-known addresses, if any, of persons listed in the report and entitled to notice in the county as specified in subsection (1) of this section;   A statement that information concerning the amount or description of the property and the name and address of the holder may be obtained by any persons possessing an interest in the property by addressing an inquiry to the Treasurer; and   A statement that any person claiming an interest in the property must file a proof of claim with the Treasurer as set forth in Section 89-12-39.     The Treasurer shall not be required to publish in the notice any item of less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) unless he deems publication to be in the public interest.   Within one hundred twenty (120) days from the receipt of the report required by Section 89-12-23, the Treasurer shall mail a notice to each person having an address listed therein who appears to be entitled to property valued at One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or more and presumed abandoned under the provisions of this chapter.   The mailed notice shall contain:   A statement that property is being held to which the addressee appears entitled;   A statement that any person claiming an interest in the property must file a proof of claim with the Treasurer as set forth in Section 89-12-39.     This section shall not be applicable to sums payable on traveler's checks or money orders presumed abandoned under the provisions of Section 89-12-5.
MS Code § 89-12-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-29. Payment or delivery of abandoned property to treasurer

  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, a person who is required to file a report under Section 89-12-23 shall pay or deliver to the Treasurer all abandoned property together with the report.   If the owner established the right to receive the abandoned property to the satisfaction of the holder before the property has been delivered, or it appears that for some other reason the presumption of abandonment is erroneous, the holder need not pay or deliver the property to the Treasurer, and the property is no longer presumed abandoned.   The holder of an interest under Section 89-12-11 shall deliver a duplicate certificate or other evidence of ownership, if the holder does not issue certificates of ownership, to the Treasurer. Upon delivery of a duplicate certificate to the Treasurer, the holder and any transfer agent, registrar or other person acting for or on behalf of a holder in executing or delivering the duplicate certificate, is relieved of all liability of every kind in accordance with the provisions of Section 89-12-31 to every person, including any person acquiring the original certificate of the duplicate of the certificate issued to the Treasurer, for any losses or damages resulting to any person by the issuance and delivery to the Treasurer of the duplicate certificate.
MS Code § 89-12-30 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-30. Sale of securities listed on stock exchange

  Securities listed on an established stock exchange must be sold at prices prevailing at the time of sale on the exchange. Other securities may be sold over the counter at prices prevailing at the time of sale or by any other method the Treasurer considers advisable.   Unless the Treasurer considers it to be in the best interests of the state to do otherwise, all securities presumed abandoned under Section 89-12-11 and delivered to the Treasurer must be held for at least three (3) years before they may be sold. If the Treasurer sells any securities delivered pursuant to Section 89-12-11 before the expiration of the three-year period, any person making a claim pursuant to this chapter before the end of that time period is entitled to either the proceeds of the sale of the securities or the market value of the securities at the time the claim is made, whichever amount is greater. A person making a claim under this chapter after the expiration of the time period is entitled to receive either the securities delivered to the Treasurer by the holder, if they still remain in the hands of the Treasurer, or the proceeds received from sale, but no person has any claim under this chapter against the state, the holder, any transfer agent, registrar or other person acting for or on behalf of a holder for any appreciation in the value of the property occurring after delivery by the holder to the Treasurer.   The purchaser of property at any sale conducted by the Treasurer pursuant to this chapter takes the property free of all claims of the owner or previous holder thereof and of all persons claiming through or under them. The Treasurer shall execute all documents necessary to complete the transfer of ownership.
MS Code § 89-12-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-31. Holder relieved from liability upon payment or delivery of abandoned property to treasurer

  Upon the payment or delivery of property to the Treasurer, the state assumes custody and responsibility for the safekeeping of the property. A person who pays or delivers property to the Treasurer in good faith is relieved of all liability for any claim then existing or which may arise or be made in respect to the property.   If the holder pays or delivers property to the Treasurer in good faith and thereafter another person claims the property from the holder or another state claims the money or property under its laws relating to escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property, the Treasurer, upon written notice of claim, shall defend the holder against any liability on the claim.   The holder of an interest under Section 89-12-11 shall deliver a duplicate certificate or other evidence of ownership if the holder does not issue certificate of ownership to the administrator.   Any holder who has paid moneys to the Treasurer pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may make payment to any person appearing to such holder to be entitled thereto and, upon proof of such payment and proof that the payee was entitled thereto, the Treasurer shall forthwith reimburse the holder for the payment.