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RI Gen L § 33-21.1-32 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-32 - Enforcement.

§ 33-21.1-32. Enforcement.The administrator may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to enforce this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-33 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-33 - Interstate agreements and cooperation - Joint and reciprocal actions with other states.

§ 33-21.1-33. Interstate agreements and cooperation — Joint and reciprocal actions with other states.(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 considerations 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 of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-34 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-34 - Interest and penalties.

§ 33-21.1-34. Interest and penalties.(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 annual rate of twelve percent (12%) above the annual rate of discount, in effect on the date the property should have been paid or delivered, for the most recent issue of fifty-two (52) week United States Treasury bills on the property or value thereof from the date the property should have been paid or delivered.(b) A person who willfully fails to render any report or perform other duties required under this chapter shall pay a civil penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each day the report is withheld or the duty is not performed, but not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000).(c) A person who willfully fails to pay or deliver property to the administrator as required under this chapter, shall pay a civil penalty equal to twenty five percent (25%) of the value of the property that should have been paid or delivered.(d) A person who willfully 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 may be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.(e) The holder in possession of property who fails to comply with the notice provisions required under subsection 33-21.1-17(e) shall pay a civil penalty of ten dollars ($10.00) for each account for which the statutory notice as required by subsection 33-21.1-17(e) is not given.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 86, § 2.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-35 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-35 - Agreement to locate reported property.

§ 33-21.1-35. Agreement to locate reported property.All agreements to pay compensation to recover or assist in the recovery of property reported under § 33-21.1-17, made within twenty four (24) months after the date payment or delivery is made under § 33-21.1-19, are unenforceable.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-36 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-36 - Foreign transactions.

§ 33-21.1-36. Foreign 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 of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-37 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-37 - Effect of new provisions - Clarification of application.

§ 33-21.1-37. Effect of new provisions — Clarification of application.(a) This chapter does not relieve a holder of a duty that arose before July 1, 1987 to report, pay, or deliver property. A holder who did not comply with the law in effect before July 1, 1987 is subject to the applicable enforcement and penalty provisions that then existed and these provisions are continued in effect for the purpose of this subsection, subject to § 33-21.1-29(b).(b) The initial report filed under this chapter for property that was not required to be reported before July 1, 1987 but which is subject to this chapter, must include all items of property that would have been presumed abandoned during the ten (10) year period preceding July 1, 1987, as if this chapter had been in effect during that period.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-38 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-38 - Rules.

§ 33-21.1-38. Rules.The administrator may adopt necessary rules to carry out the provisions of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-39 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-39 - Severability.

§ 33-21.1-39. Severability.If any provision of this chapter or the application of this chapter to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-40 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-40 - Uniformity of application and construction.

§ 33-21.1-40. Uniformity of application and construction.This chapter shall 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 of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.1-41 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.1 - Unclaimed Intangible and Tangible Property|Section 33-21.1-41 - Short title.

§ 33-21.1-41. Short title.This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act".History of Section.P.L. 1986, ch. 500, § 3.
RI Gen L § 33-21.2-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.2 - Lost Property|Section 33-21.2-1 - Report of lost money or goods by finder.

§ 33-21.2-1. Report of lost money or goods by finder.Any person who finds money or goods of a value of fifty ($50.00) dollars or more, the owner of which is unknown, may, within two (2) days of the finding thereof report the finding to the officer in charge of the police station in the city or town where said property was found and deliver over the property to said officer.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 240, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21.2-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.2 - Lost Property|Section 33-21.2-2 - Restitution of lost money or goods.

§ 33-21.2-2. Restitution of lost money or goods.If within ninety (90) days of turning the lost money or goods over to the police the owner appears and pays all reasonable costs incurred by the finder and/or the police, he or she shall have restitution of the money or goods.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 240, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21.2-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.2 - Lost Property|Section 33-21.2-3 - Rights of finder if no owner appears.

§ 33-21.2-3. Rights of finder if no owner appears.If the owner of lost money or goods does not appear and claim his or her property as provided in § 33-21.2-2, the property shall enure to the finder.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 240, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21.2-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21.2 - Lost Property|Section 33-21.2-4 - Disposition of lost money or goods.

§ 33-21.2-4. Disposition of lost money or goods.If the finder fails to claim said money or goods within six (6) months of reporting and delivering the lost property to the police, the property shall be presumed abandoned and shall revert to the general fund of the state in accordance with the state's unclaimed intangible and tangible property program, pursuant to chapter 21.1 of this title.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 240, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21A-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21A - Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts|Section 33-21A-1 - Declaration of escheat.

§ 33-21A-1. Declaration of escheat.All postal savings system accounts created by the deposits of persons whose last known addresses are in this state which have not been claimed by the persons entitled thereto before May 1, 1971, are presumed to have been abandoned by their owners and are declared to escheat and become the property of this state.History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21A-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21A - Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts|Section 33-21A-2 - Obtaining information on accounts.

§ 33-21A-2. Obtaining information on accounts.The general treasurer shall request from the bureau of accounts of the United States treasury department records providing the following information: the names of depositors at the post offices of this state whose accounts are unclaimed, their last addresses as shown by the records of the United States postal service, and the balance in each account. He or she shall agree to return to the bureau of accounts promptly all account cards showing last addresses in another state.History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21A-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21A - Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts|Section 33-21A-3 - Proceeding to adjudicate escheat.

§ 33-21A-3. Proceeding to adjudicate escheat.(a) The general treasurer may bring proceedings in the superior court for Providence and Bristol counties to escheat unclaimed postal savings system accounts held by the United States treasury department. A single proceeding may be used to escheat as many accounts as may be available for escheat at one time.(b) If the superior court shall find that the notice required by § 33-21A-4 has been duly given not less than twenty (20) days prior to the date of hearing and that no claim to an account has been made (which findings may be supported solely by the affidavit of the general treasurer), then it shall enter a final judgment of escheat against the account. A single final judgment may include more than one account.History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21A-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21A - Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts|Section 33-21A-4 - Notice.

§ 33-21A-4. Notice.The general treasurer shall notify depositors whose accounts are to be escheated as follows:(1) A letter advising that a postal savings system account in the name of the addressee is about to be escheated and setting forth the procedure by which a deposit may be claimed shall be mailed by first class mail to the named depositor at the last address shown on the account records for each account to be escheated having an unpaid principal balance of more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).(2) A general notice of intention to escheat postal savings system accounts shall be published once in each of three (3) successive weeks in one or more newspapers which combine to provide general circulation throughout this state.(3) A special notice of intention to escheat the unclaimed postal savings system accounts originally deposited in each post office must be published once in each of three (3) successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the post office is located or, if there is none, in a newspaper having general circulation in the county. This notice must list the names of the owners of each unclaimed account to be escheated having a principal balance of three dollars ($3.00) or more.History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21A-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21A - Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts|Section 33-21A-5 - Collection and deposit of funds.

§ 33-21A-5. Collection and deposit of funds.The general treasurer shall present a copy of each final judgment of escheat to the United States treasury department for payment of the principal due and the interest computed under regulations of the United States treasury department. The payment received shall be deposited in the general funds of the state.History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21A-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21A - Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts|Section 33-21A-6 - Indemnification of the United States.

§ 33-21A-6. Indemnification of the United States.This state shall indemnify the United States for any losses suffered as a result of the escheat of unclaimed postal savings system accounts. The burden of indemnification falls upon the fund into which the proceeds of the escheated accounts have been paid.History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21A-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21A - Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts|Section 33-21A-7 - Short title.

§ 33-21A-7. Short title.This act may be cited as the "Escheat of Postal Savings System Accounts Act".History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-21B-1 - 33-21B-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-21B - Property in Custody of Federal Officers, Agencies, and Departments|Section 33-21B-1 - 33-21B-9 - Repealed.

§ 33-21B-1 — 33-21B-9. Repealed.History of Section.P.L. 1979, ch. 118, § 4; Repealed by P.L. 1990, ch. 233, § 2, effective July 1, 1990.
RI Gen L § 33-22-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-22 - Practice in Probate Courts|Section 33-22-1 - Petitions in writing and signed - Notice to institution of petition concerning deceased inmate.

§ 33-22-1. Petitions in writing and signed — Notice to institution of petition concerning deceased inmate.Every application, petition, or complaint to a probate court shall be in writing and signed by or in behalf of the party making the petition, and on the filing of certificate of death of an inmate of an institution maintained or controlled by the state, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the probate court to give written notice of the filing of the petition accompanying the same, to the commission, board, department, or division having the management or control of the institution.History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 764; G.L. 1909, ch. 309, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 360, § 1; P.L. 1930, ch. 1575, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 571, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 33-22-1.
RI Gen L § 33-22-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-22 - Practice in Probate Courts|Section 33-22-2 - Contents of petition for probate or administration.

§ 33-22-2. Contents of petition for probate or administration.Whenever any petition shall be filed for the probate of a will or for the first grant of original or ancillary administration in this state, the petitioner shall set forth under oath in the petition:(1) The title of the proceeding and the name and address of the petitioner.(2) The domicile of the decedent, together with any other facts upon which the jurisdiction of the probate court to which the petition is directed may depend.(3) So far as known to the petitioner:(i) The names and post office addresses of the surviving spouse and heirs at law. Provided, however, if no heirs at law are listed, the petitioner shall file an affidavit under oath setting forth what efforts the petitioner has made to locate heirs at law.(ii) If the person is under the age of eighteen (18) years, his or her age, post office address, and the names and post office addresses of his or her parents, or such of them as may be living, and of his or her guardian or guardians if any.(iii) If the person is an adjudged incompetent, the name and post office address of his or her guardian or guardians if any, and the name and post office address of the person or institution having the care or custody of the incompetent.(iv) If the petition is for the allowance of a will, it shall also contain the names and post office addresses of the named beneficiaries entitled to take there under to the extent that they are different than the heirs at law.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 571, § 20; P.L. 1951, ch. 2742, § 1; P.L. 1952, ch. 3022, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 33-22-2; P.L. 1984, ch. 81, § 7; P.L. 1990, ch. 36, § 1; P.L. 2008, ch. 296, § 1; P.L. 2008, ch. 315, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-22-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-22 - Practice in Probate Courts|Section 33-22-3 - Notice given by petitioner on filing of petition and hearing.

§ 33-22-3. Notice given by petitioner on filing of petition and hearing.In addition to the notice prescribed by § 33-7-9, and to notice by publication in the manner as prescribed by § 33-22-11, the petitioner or his or her attorney shall, at least ten (10) days before the date set for hearing on the petition, send or cause to be sent by mail, postage prepaid, addressed to each person whose name and post office address is by § 33-22-2(3) required to be set forth in the petition, as the names and addresses are set forth therein or as then known to the petitioner, notice of the filing, the nature of the petition, and of the time and place set for hearing on the petition, or in lieu thereof a copy of the newspaper notice published pursuant to the provisions of § 33-22-11; provided, however, that in the case of any person entitled to notice hereunder whose post office address is outside the continental limits of the United States this notice shall be sent at least three (3) weeks before the date set for the hearing; and provided further that the petitioner or his or her attorney shall not be required to send this notice to any person sui juris who shall at, or prior to, the hearing waive notice of its pendency in writing either on the petition or by instrument separately filed. The petitioner or his or her attorney shall at or prior to the hearing file or cause to be filed an affidavit that the notice was given, setting forth the names and post office addresses of the persons to whom the notice was sent and the date of mailing of the notice, together with a copy of the notice.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 571, § 21; P.L. 1951, ch. 2742, § 1; P.L. 1952, ch. 3022, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 33-22-3; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 11, § 8; P.L. 2013, ch. 88, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 96, § 1.
RI Gen L § 33-22-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-22 - Practice in Probate Courts|Section 33-22-4 - Repealed.

§ 33-22-4. Repealed.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 571, § 22; P.L. 1951, ch. 2742, § 1; P.L. 1952, ch. 3022, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 33-22-4; Repealed by P.L. 2014, ch. 351, § 1, effective July 2, 2014; P.L. 2014, ch. 398, § 1, effective July 2, 2014.
RI Gen L § 33-22-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-22 - Practice in Probate Courts|Section 33-22-5 - Waiver of notice.

§ 33-22-5. Waiver of notice.If all interested parties shall, in writing, waive the notice required by § 33-22-3 and assent to action upon the petition by the court at any time, the court may proceed to hear the cause without publication or further notice and any decree entered in the proceeding shall be of the same force and effect as if notice had been given in the manner provided by this chapter.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 571, § 23; P.L. 1951, ch. 2742, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 33-22-5; P.L. 2014, ch. 351, § 2; P.L. 2014, ch. 398, § 2.
RI Gen L § 33-22-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 33 - Probate Practice and Procedure|Chapter 33-22 - Practice in Probate Courts|Section 33-22-6 - Additional notice given - Failure to comply.

§ 33-22-6. Additional notice given — Failure to comply.The notice prescribed by § 33-7-9 and the notice by publication in the manner as prescribed by § 33-22-11 shall also be given in all cases in which notice by mail is required by § 33-22-3, unless waived in writing by the persons entitled to such notice, but failure to comply with any of the provisions in §§ 33-22-2 and 33-22-3 shall not defeat the jurisdiction of the court or affect adversely the regularity of any proceedings in which the failure shall have occurred, and upon discovery of the failure the court may make such further orders as the circumstances may require.History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 571, § 24; P.L. 1951, ch. 2742, § 1; P.L. 1952, ch. 3022, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 33-22-6; P.L. 2014, ch. 351, § 2; P.L. 2014, ch. 398, § 2.