reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
SC Code § 27-18-85 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-85. Property payable or distributable in the course of demutualization of insurance company; abandonment.

 Unclaimed property payable or distributable in the course of a demutualization of an insurance company is presumed abandoned five years after the earlier of the date:  (1) of last contact with the policyholder; or  (2) the property became payable or distributable.  This section does not apply to amounts due and owing to the State or a political subdivision of the State.  HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 58, Section 1.
SC Code § 27-18-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-90. Utility service deposits, advance payments, or ordered refunds.

 (A) A deposit, including any interest thereon, made by a subscriber with a utility to secure payment or any sum paid in advance for utility services to be furnished, less any lawful deductions, that remains unclaimed by the owner for more than one year after termination of the services for which the deposit or advance payment was made is presumed abandoned.  (B) 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 charges, that has remained unclaimed by the person appearing on the records of the utility entitled thereto for more than five years after the date it became payable in accordance with the final determination or order providing for the refund is presumed abandoned.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-100. Business associations; refunds ordered by court or administrative agency.

 Except to the extent otherwise ordered by the court or administrative agency, any sum that a business association has been ordered to refund by a court or administrative agency which has remained unclaimed by the owner for more than one year after it became payable in accordance with the final determination or order providing for the refund, whether or not the final determination or order requires any person entitled to a refund to make a claim for it, is presumed abandoned.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-110. Dormancy period for stock or other equity interest in business association and certain debts; calculating whether stock or security interest is unclaimed.

 (A) Stock or other equity interest in a business association is presumed unclaimed three years after the earliest of:  (1) the date of the most recent dividend, stock split, or other distribution unclaimed by the apparent owner;  (2) the date of a statement of account or other notification or communication that was returned as undeliverable; or  (3) the date the holder discontinued mailings, notifications, or communications to the apparent owner.  (B) Unmatured or unredeemed debt, other than a bearer bond or an original-issue discount bond, is presumed unclaimed three years after the date of the most recent interest payment unclaimed by the owner.  (C) Matured or redeemed debt is presumed unclaimed three years after the date of maturity or redemption.  (D) At the time property is presumed unclaimed pursuant to subsection (A) or (B), any other property right accrued or accruing to the owner as a result of the property interest and not previously presumed unclaimed is also presumed unclaimed.  (E) The running of the three-year period ceases if the person:  (1)(a) communicates in writing with the association or its agent regarding the interest or a dividend, distribution, or other sum payable as a result of the interest; or  (b) otherwise communicates with the association regarding the interest or a dividend, distribution, or other sum payable as a result of the interest, as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file with the association or its agent; or  (2) presents an instrument issued to pay interest or a dividend or other cash distribution. If a future dividend, distribution, or other sum payable to the owner as a result of the interest is subsequently not claimed by the owner, a new period in which the property is presumed unclaimed commences and relates back only to the time a subsequent dividend, distribution, or other sum became due and payable.  (F) At the same time any interest is presumed unclaimed under this section, a dividend, distribution, or other sum then held for or owing to the owner as a result of the interest, is presumed unclaimed.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A; 2008 Act No. 197, Section 1, eff April 15, 2008.  Effect of Amendment  The 2008 amendment rewrote this section.
SC Code § 27-18-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-120. Intangible property distributable in course of dissolution of business association.

 Intangible property distributable in the course of a dissolution of a business association which remains unclaimed by the owner for more than one year after the date specified for final distribution is presumed abandoned.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-130. Intangible property held in fiduciary capacity for benefit of another; funds in individual retirement account or retirement plan for self-employed individuals or similar plan or account.

 (A) Intangible property and any income or increment derived therefrom held in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of another person is presumed abandoned unless the owner, within five years after it has become payable or distributable, has increased or decreased the principal, accepted payment of principal or income, communicated concerning the property, or otherwise indicated an interest as evidenced by a memorandum or other record on file prepared by the fiduciary.  (B) Funds in an individual retirement account or a retirement plan for self-employed individuals or similar account or plan established pursuant to the Internal Revenue laws of the United States are not payable or distributable within the meaning of subsection (A) unless, under the terms of the account or plan, distribution of all or part of the funds would then be mandatory.  (C) For the purpose of this section, a person who holds property as an agent for a business association is considered to hold the property in a fiduciary capacity for that business association alone, unless the agreement between him and the business association provides otherwise.  (D) For the purposes of this chapter, a person who is considered to hold property in a fiduciary capacity for a business association alone is the holder of the property only insofar as the interest of the business association in the property is concerned, and the business association is the holder of the property insofar as the interest of any other person in the property is concerned.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-140. Unclaimed intangible property presumed abandoned; tax refund checks.

 (A) Intangible property held for the owner by a court, state, or other government, governmental subdivision or agency, public corporation, or public authority which remains unclaimed by the owner for more than five years after becoming payable or distributable is presumed abandoned.  (B) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (A), tax refund checks as defined in Chapter 54 of Title 12 are presumed abandoned if unclaimed for a period of three months from the date the tax refund check was issued by the Department of Revenue.  (C) This chapter does not apply to tax refund checks mailed to an owner, and not presented for payment, but not returned to the Department of Revenue by the Post Office for an unknown, undeliverable, or insufficient address.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A; 1992 Act No. 264, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 161, Section 26.C.
SC Code § 27-18-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-150. Credit memo.

 (A) A credit memo issued in the ordinary course of an issuer's business which remains unclaimed by the owner for more than five years after becoming payable or distributable is presumed abandoned.  (B) In the case of a credit memo, the amount presumed abandoned is the amount credited to the recipient of the memo.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A; 2001 Act No. 43, Section 2.
SC Code § 27-18-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-160. Unpaid wages and unpresented payroll checks.

 Unpaid wages, including wages represented by unpresented payroll checks, owing in the ordinary course of the holder's business which remain unclaimed by the owner for more than one year after becoming payable are presumed abandoned.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-170. Contents of safe deposit boxes or other safekeeping repositories.

 All tangible and intangible property held in a safe deposit box or any other safekeeping repository in this State in the ordinary course of the holder's business and proceeds resulting from the sale of the property permitted by other law, which remain unclaimed by the owner for more than five years after the lease or rental period on the box or other repository has expired, are presumed abandoned.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-175 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-175. Application of chapter.

 This chapter does not apply to forfeited reservation deposits. For purposes of this chapter, the term "reservation deposit" means an amount of money paid to a business association to guarantee that the business association holds a specific service including, but not limited to, a room accommodation at a hotel, a vacation rental, seating at a restaurant, or an appointment with a doctor, for a specified date and place. The term "reservation deposit" does not include an application fee, a utility deposit, or a deposit made toward the purchase of real property.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 43, Section 3.
SC Code § 27-18-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-190. Administrator's notice of abandoned property; publication; contents; exceptions.

 (A) The administrator shall publish a notice not later than April 30 of the year immediately following the report required by Section 27-18-180 at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of this State in which is located the last known address of any person named in the notice. If a holder does not report an address for the apparent owner, or the address is outside this State, the notice must be published in the county in which the holder has its principal place of business within this State or another county that the administrator reasonably selects.  (B) The notice must be in a form that, in the judgment of the administrator, is likely to attract the attention of the apparent owner of the unclaimed property. The form must contain:  (1) the name of each person appearing to be the owner of the property, as set forth in the report filed by the holder;  (2) the last known address or location of each person appearing to be the owner of the property, if an address or location is set forth in the report filed by the holder;  (3) a statement explaining that property of the owner is presumed to be abandoned and has been taken into custody of the administrator; and  (4) a statement that information about the property and its return to the owner is available to a person having a legal or beneficial interest in the property upon request to the administrator.  (C) The administrator is not required to publish the name and address or location of property having a total value of less than fifty dollars or information concerning a traveler's check, money order, or similar instrument.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A; 1996 Act No. 248, Section 3; 1998 Act No. 377, Section 1.
SC Code § 27-18-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-200. Payment or delivery of abandoned property to administrator; exceptions; holder of stocks or similar intangible ownership interests relieved of liability upon delivery.

 (A) A person who is required to file a report under Section 27-18-180 shall pay or deliver to the administrator all abandoned property required to be reported.  (B) The holder of an interest under Section 27-18-110 shall deliver a duplicate certificate or other evidence of ownership if the holder does not issue certificates of ownership to the administrator. Upon delivery of a duplicate certificate to the administrator, 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 provision of Section 27-18-210 to every person, including any person acquiring the original certificate or the duplicate of the certificate issued to the administrator, for any losses or damages resulting to any person by the issuance and delivery to the administrator of the duplicate certificate.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A; 1996 Act No. 248, Section 4.
SC Code § 27-18-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-220. Dividends, interest, or other increments realized on property in hands of administrator.

 Whenever property other than money is paid or delivered to the administrator under this chapter, the owner is entitled to receive from the administrator any dividends, interest, or other increments realized or accruing on the property at or before liquidation or conversion thereof into money.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-240. Deposit into General Fund of funds received by administrator; deductions before deposit of funds.

 (A) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the administrator shall promptly deposit in the general fund of this State all funds received under this chapter, including the proceeds from the sale of abandoned property under Section 27-18-230. The administrator shall retain in a separate trust fund an amount not less than one hundred thousand dollars from which prompt payment of claims duly allowed must be made by him. Before making the deposit, the administrator shall record the name and last known address of each person appearing from the holders' reports to be entitled to the property and the name and last known address of each insured person or annuitant and beneficiary and with respect to each policy or contract listed in the report of an insurance company its number, the name of the company, and the amount due. The record must be available for public inspection at all reasonable business hours.  (B) Before making any deposit to the credit of the general fund, the administrator may deduct:  (1) any costs in connection with the sale of abandoned property;  (2) costs of mailing and publication in connection with any abandoned property;  (3) reasonable service charges; and  (4) costs incurred in examining records of holders of property and in collecting the property from those holders.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-250. Claims to property paid or delivered to administrator; recovery of interest on property.

 (A) A person, excluding another state, claiming an interest in any property paid or delivered to the administrator may file with him a claim on a form prescribed by him and verified by the claimant.  (B) The administrator shall consider each claim within ninety days after it is filed and give written notice to the claimant if the claim is denied in whole or in part. The notice may be given by mailing it to the last address, if any, stated in the claim as the address to which notices are to be sent. If no address for notices is stated in the claim, the notice may be mailed to the last address, if any, of the claimant as stated in the claim. No notice of denial need be given if the claim fails to state either the last address to which notices are to be sent or the address of the claimant.  (C) If a claim is allowed, the administrator shall pay over or deliver to the claimant the property or the amount the administrator actually received or the net proceeds if it has been sold by the administrator together with any additional amount required by Section 27-18-220. If the claim is for property presumed abandoned under Section 27-18-110 which was sold by the administrator within three years after the date of delivery, the amount payable for that claim is the value of the property at the time the claim was made or the net proceeds of sale, whichever is greater. If the property claimed was interest-bearing to the owner on the date of surrender by the holder, the administrator also shall pay interest at a rate provided in Section 12-54-25 or any lesser rate the property earned while in the possession of the holder. Interest begins to accrue when the property is delivered to the administrator and ceases on the earlier of the expiration of ten years after delivery or the date on which payment is made to the owner. No interest on interest-bearing property is payable for any period before the effective date of this chapter.  (D) Any holder who pays the owner for property that has been delivered to the State and which, if claimed from the administrator, would be subject to subsection (C) shall add interest as provided in subsection (C). The added interest must be repaid to the holder by the administrator in the same manner as the principal.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A; 2008 Act No. 197, Section 2, eff April 15, 2008.  Effect of Amendment  The 2008 amendment, in subsection (C), in the third sentence substituted "12-54-25" for "12-54-20".
SC Code § 27-18-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-260. Recovery by another state of property paid or delivered to administrator.

 (A) At any time after property has been paid or delivered to the administrator under this chapter another state may recover the property if:  (1) the property was subjected to custody by this State because the records of the holder did not reflect the last known address of the apparent owner when the property was presumed abandoned under this chapter and the other state establishes that the last known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the property was in that state and under the laws of that state the property escheated to or was subject to a claim of abandonment by that state;  (2) the last known address of the apparent owner or other person entitled to the property, as reflected by the records of the holder, is in the other state and under the laws of that state the property has escheated to or become subject to a claim of abandonment by that state;  (3) the records of the holder were erroneous in that they did not accurately reflect the actual owner of the property and the last known address of the actual owner is in the other state and under the laws of that state the property escheated to or was subject to a claim of abandonment by that state;  (4) the property was subjected to custody by this State under Section 27-18-40(6) and under the laws of the state of domicile of the holder the property has escheated to or become subject to a claim of abandonment by that state; or  (5) the property is the sum payable on a travelers check, money order, or other similar instrument that was subjected to custody by this State under Section 27-18-50, and the instrument was purchased in the other state, and under the laws of that state the property escheated to or became subject to a claim of abandonment by that state.  (B) The claim of another state to recover escheated or abandoned property must be presented in a form prescribed by the administrator, who shall decide the claim within ninety days after it is presented. The administrator shall allow the claim if he determines that the other state is entitled to the abandoned property under subsection (A).  (C) The administrator shall require a state, before recovering property under this section, to agree to indemnify this State and its officers and employees against any liability on a claim for the property.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-270. Appeal of decision of administrator, court action to establish claim to property.

 A person aggrieved by a decision of the administrator or whose claim has not been acted upon within ninety days after its filing may bring an action to establish the claim in the court of common pleas of Richland County naming the administrator as a defendant. The action must be brought within ninety days after the decision of the administrator or within one hundred eighty days after the filing of the claim if he has failed to act on it.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.
SC Code § 27-18-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 27 - Property and Conveyances|Chapter 18 - Uniform Unclaimed Property Act|Section 27-18-280. Election of administrator not to accept property; report and delivery of property before property presumed abandoned.

 (A) The administrator may decline to receive any property reported under this chapter which he considers to have a value less than the expense of giving notice and of sale. If the administrator elects not to receive custody of the property, the holder must be notified within one hundred twenty days after filing the report required under Section 27-18-180.  (B) A holder, with the written consent of the administrator and upon conditions and terms prescribed by him, may report and deliver property before the property is presumed abandoned. Property delivered under this subsection must be held by the administrator and is not presumed abandoned until such time as it otherwise would be presumed abandoned under this chapter.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 658, Part II, Section 34A.