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SC Code § 27-18-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-290. Destruction or disposal by administrator of property with insubstantial commercial value; immunity from liability.

 If the administrator determines after investigation that any property delivered under this chapter has insubstantial commercial value, the administrator may destroy or otherwise dispose of the property at any time. No action or proceeding may be maintained against the State or any officer or against the holder for or on account of any action taken by the administrator pursuant to this section.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-300. Periods of limitation.

 (A) The expiration, after the effective date of this chapter, of any period of time specified by contract, statute, or court order, during which a claim for money or property can be made or during which an action or proceeding may be commenced or enforced to obtain payment of a claim for money or to recover property, does not prevent the money or property from being presumed abandoned or affect any duty to file a report or to pay or deliver abandoned property to the administrator as required by this chapter.  (B) No action or proceeding may be commenced by the administrator with respect to any duty of a holder under this chapter more than ten years after the duty arose.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-310. Requests for reports; examination of records; demand for payment; estimated amount of abandoned property.

 (A) The administrator may require any person who has not filed a report to file a verified report stating whether or not the person is holding any unclaimed property reportable or deliverable under this chapter.  (B) The administrator, at reasonable times and upon reasonable notice, may examine the records of any person to determine whether the person has complied with the provisions of this chapter. The administrator may conduct the examination even if the person believes it is not in possession of any property reportable or deliverable under this chapter.  (C) If a person is treated under Section 27-18-130 as the holder of the property only insofar as the interest of the business association in the property is concerned, the administrator, pursuant to subsection (B), may examine the records of the person if the administrator has given the notice required by subsection (B) to both the person and the business association at least ninety days before the examination.  (D) If an examination of the records of a person results in the disclosure of property reportable and deliverable under this chapter the administrator shall give notice to the holder stating the amount due plus applicable interest and penalties and his demand for payment. Payment or written formal protest must be made within sixty days from the receipt of the notice or the holder is subject to penalties as provided under Section 27-18-350(B) or criminal prosecution as provided in Section 27-18-350(D).  (E) If a holder fails after the effective date of this chapter to maintain the records required by Section 27-18-320 and the records of the holder available for the periods subject to this chapter are insufficient to permit the preparation of a report, the administrator may require the holder to report and pay such amounts as may reasonably be estimated from any available records.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-320. Length of time holders must retain records.

 (A) Every holder required to file a report under Section 27-18-180 as to any property for which it has obtained the last known address of the owner, shall maintain a record of the name and last known address of the owner for ten years after the property becomes reportable, except to the extent that a shorter time is provided in subsection (B) or by rule of the administrator.  (B) Any business association that sells in this State its travelers checks, money orders, or other similar written instruments, other than third-party bank checks on which the business association is directly liable, or that provides such instruments to others for sale in this State, shall maintain a record of those instruments while they remain outstanding, indicating the state and date of issue for three years after the date the property is reportable.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-330. Authority of administrator to enforce chapter.

 The administrator may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to enforce this chapter.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-340. Cooperation with other states concerning sharing of information, changing of rules, and enforcement of chapter.

 (A) The administrator may enter into agreements with other states to exchange information needed to enable this or another state to audit or otherwise determine unclaimed property that it or another state may be entitled to subject to a claim of custody. The administrator by rule may require the reporting of information needed to enable compliance with agreements made pursuant to this section and prescribe the form.  (B) To avoid conflicts between the administrator's procedures and the procedures of administrators in other jurisdictions that enact the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, the administrator, so far as is consistent with the purposes, policies, and provisions of this chapter, before adopting, amending, or repealing rules, shall advise and consult with administrators in other jurisdictions that enact substantially the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act and take into consideration the rules of administrators in other jurisdictions that enact the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.  (C) The administrator may join with other states to seek enforcement of this chapter against any person who is or may be holding property reportable under this chapter.  (D) At the request of another state, the Attorney General of this State may bring an action in the name of the administrator of the other state in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the unclaimed property laws of the other state against a holder in this State of property subject to escheat or a claim of abandonment by the other state, if the other state has agreed to pay expenses incurred by the Attorney General in bringing the action.  (E) The administrator may request that the Attorney General of another state or any other person bring an action in the name of the administrator in the other state. This State shall pay all expenses including attorney's fees in any action under this subsection. The administrator may agree to pay the person bringing the action attorney's fees based in whole or in part on a percentage of the value of any property recovered in the action. Any expenses paid pursuant to this subsection may not be deducted from the amount that is subject to the claim by the owner under this chapter.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-350. Interest and penalties for violations of chapter.

 (A) A person who fails to pay or deliver property within the time prescribed by this chapter may be required to pay to the administrator interest at the rate provided in Section 12-54-25 on the property or value thereof from the date the property should have been paid or delivered.  (B) A person who fails to render any report or perform other duties required pursuant to this chapter may be required to pay a civil penalty of one hundred dollars for each day the report is withheld or the duty is not performed, but not more than five thousand dollars.  (C) A person who fails to pay or deliver property to the administrator as required pursuant to this chapter may be required to pay a civil penalty equal to twenty-five percent of the value of the property that should have been paid or delivered.  (D) A person who wilfully refuses after written demand by the administrator to pay or deliver property to the administrator as required under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A; 1995 Act No. 60, Section 4.J; 2008 Act No. 197, Section 3, eff April 15, 2008.  Effect of Amendment  The 2008 amendment, in subsections (B) and (C), substituted "pursuant to this chapter may be required to" for "under this chapter shall".
SC Code § 27-18-360 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-360. Restrictions on agreements to recover or assist in recovery of reported property; penalties.

 All agreements to pay compensation to recover or assist in the recovery of property reported under Section 27-18-180, made within twenty-four months after the date payment or delivery is made under Section 27-18-200 are unenforceable. It is unlawful for any person to seek or receive from any person or contract with any person for any fee or compensation for locating or purporting to locate any property which he knows has been reported or paid or delivered to the administrator pursuant to this chapter, in excess of fifteen percent of the value thereof returned to the owner. Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than the amount of the fee or charge he has sought or received or contracted for, nor more than ten times the amount, or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-370. Application of chapter to foreign property or transactions.

 This chapter does not apply to any property held, due, and owing in a foreign country and arising out of a foreign transaction.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-380 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-380. Duties which arose prior to effective date of chapter unaffected; enforcement and penalties of prior laws unaffected; initial report under this chapter of property not previously required to be reported.

 (A) This chapter does not relieve a holder of a duty that arose before the effective date of this chapter to report, pay, or deliver property. A holder who did not comply with the law in effect before the effective date of this chapter is subject to the applicable enforcement and penalty provisions that then existed and they are continued in effect for the purpose of this subsection, subject to Section 27-18-300(B).  (B) The initial report filed under this chapter for property that was not required to be reported before the effective date of this chapter but which is subject to this chapter must include all items of property that would have been presumed abandoned during the ten-year period preceding the effective date of this chapter as if this chapter had been in effect during that period.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-390 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-390. Authority of administrator to adopt rules.

 The administrator may adopt necessary rules to carry out the provisions of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-400 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-400. Application and construction of chapter.

 This chapter must be applied and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-19-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-10. Notification of supposedly escheated lands by Secretary of State to judge of circuit court.

 The Secretary of State, in every case when, on his knowledge or belief or on the information of another, certain lands have been escheated to the State by the death of the person last seized in fee simple, either in law or in fact, without leaving any person who can lawfully claim such lands either by purchase or descent from such former proprietor, shall, on such knowledge or information or the order of any court of record, issue his notification of such supposedly escheated lands to one of the judges of the circuit court at least two months previous to the next session of such court to be held in the county where such lands lie.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.1; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-20. Inquest by jury; certification and recording of verdict.

 The judge presiding at such court shall cause a jury, being first duly sworn, to proceed and make a true inquest of all such supposedly escheated lands which by the Secretary of State shall be subjected to their investigation and a true verdict made thereon. Thereupon the judge of the court shall certify such verdict, under his hand and the seal of the court, to the Secretary of State who shall record it in a book to be kept by him for that purpose and shall return the original within two months after the date thereof into the office of the clerk of the court, to be there filed and kept as a record thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.2; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-30. Notice published in county where land lies.

 On the return of any inquest of supposedly escheated lands by the Secretary of State into the office of the clerk of the county in which the lands lie, the clerk shall thereupon cause to be advertised, in a newspaper of the county or other nearest gazette, the first week in every month, for six months, a notice containing a particular description of the lands, the name of the person last seized and the supposed time of his death, together with the part of the world in which he was supposed to have been born, and requiring his heirs or others claiming under him to appear and make claim.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.3; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-40. Petition by person claiming land; proceedings thereon.

 Any person shall be heard on a traverse without delay in the court of common pleas, on a petition setting forth his rights, and the lands shall be committed to him if he shall show good evidence of his title, to hold until the right shall be found and discussed for the State and the claimant, such claimant finding sufficient security to prosecute his suit to effect, and without delay, and to render to the State the yearly value of such lands, if the right be found for the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.4; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-50. Damages for prosecution of escheat proceedings without probable cause.

 If any suit for property supposed to be escheated shall be prosecuted by the Secretary of State and the jury before whom the trial shall be had shall think there is no probable cause, the jury shall assess and award to the party aggrieved such damages as they shall think proper.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.5; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-60. Renting out land pending conclusion of process of escheat.

 When no claimant shall appear to make title as aforesaid, the Secretary of State shall rent out the escheated lands, if it can be done with advantage to the State, until the process of escheat shall be concluded and the lands sold.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.6; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-70. Manner of pronouncing land escheated.

 If no person shall appear and claim lands within twelve months after the expiration of the time prescribed for advertising, the clerk shall issue process, to be signed by the judge of the circuit court of the county, to the Secretary of State, pronouncing the lands escheated and vested according to law and directing him forthwith to sell and convey them upon the usual notice.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.7; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-80. Advertising land for sale; terms of sale.

 As soon as the Secretary of State shall receive the process in Section 27-19-70 mentioned, he shall advertise the sale of such lands in a newspaper of the county or other nearest gazette and also in the most public places of the county in which the lands lie, giving six weeks' public notice, on a credit of twelve months, payable in lawful money. He shall, moreover, take good and sufficient surety and a mortgage of the premises before the title shall be altered or changed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.8; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-90. Division of land into tracts for sale.

 When any such lands shall exceed six hundred acres and can be divided into smaller tracts with advantage to the State in the sale thereof, the Secretary of State shall cause them to be divided in such manner as shall be most beneficial to the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.9; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-100. Land may be bid in or purchased by Department of Administration; disposition of such lands.

 At any sale of escheated property, if, in his judgment, the property is being sold at a sacrifice, the Secretary of State may buy the land for the Department of Administration or cause it to be so bid in and, upon payment of the costs accrued thereon, may cause the title deed to be made therefor as escheated property to the Department of Administration which shall rent or sell the property in such manner, at such time and upon such terms as, in its judgment, shall be for the best interests of the State and apply the proceeds thereof as directed in Section 27-19-340.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.10; 1972 (57) 2501.  Code Commissioner's Note  At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
SC Code § 27-19-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-110. Compensation of person making good title to land within five years.

 If any person shall appear within five years and make good title to such lands in the court of common pleas on an issue tried, he shall forthwith receive adequate compensation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-200.11; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-120. Estates of felons shall not escheat.

 No property shall be vested in the State or any inquisition had by the escheator when any person shall have committed or may commit any felony against the State but such property shall descend to, and be vested in, the representatives of such person.  HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 21-1-20 [1962 Code Section 19-2; 1952 Code Section 19-2; 1942 Code Section 8859; 1932 Code Section 8859; Civ. C. '22 Section 5621; Civ. C. '12 Section 4094; Civ. C. '02 Section 2993; G. S. 2314; R. S. 2452; 1787 (5) 48] redesignated as Section 27-19-120 by 1986 Act No. 539, Section 2.
SC Code § 27-19-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-210. Secretary of State or Attorney General may sue for and recover moneys or personal property in hands of executor or administrator.

 When any moneys or other personal estate shall be found in the hands of an executor or administrator, being the property of any person deceased leaving no person entitled to claim and without making disposition of them, the Secretary of State or the Attorney General, on behalf of the State, shall sue for and recover and pay any moneys so recovered into the State Treasury.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-210.1; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-220. Advertising of moneys or property; vesting of property in State.

 The State Treasurer shall advertise such moneys or other personal property in some newspaper once in every month for six months in like manner as lands are herein directed to be advertised, and if no person shall appear and make good title to such personal estate within two years thereafter other than as executor or administrator or their legal representatives, then such moneys or other personal estate shall become vested in and applied to the use of the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-210.2; 1972 (57) 2501.
SC Code § 27-19-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 19 - Escheat Of Land And Personal Property|Section 27-19-230. Personal property of inmates dying in the Charleston Home.

 If any inmate of the Charleston Home die intestate leaving money or personal property, no one making claim for it within two years after the death of such inmate, such money or personal property shall become the property of the Home, to be expended by the board of commissioners for improvements and repairs of the premises of the Home.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 57-210.3; 1972 (57) 2501.