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2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 77 - Animals and Livestock › Article 17 - Abattoirs, Meat Dealers and Storage Plants › Section 77-17-14 - [Failure to show hides or pelts; evidence of violation.]

Inability or refusal to show such hide or pelt to any proper authority within said period of thirty days, or a refusal to so show it at any time thereafter while remaining in the possession of the person by or for whom the animal was killed, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of the provisions of said section [77-17-12 NMSA 1978], and shall be competent evidence to go to the jury upon the trial of any indictment against such person or persons for the larceny of any animal or animals, or for the receiving of stolen property.
History:
Laws 1891, ch. 45, § 3; C.L. 1897, § 91; Code 1915, § 551; C.S. 1929, § 19-108; 1941 Comp., § 49-2211; 1953 Comp., § 47-20-11.
ANNOTATIONS
Bracketed material.
— The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Cross references.
— For larceny of livestock,
see
30-16-1 NMSA 1978.
For receiving stolen property,
see
30-16-11 NMSA 1978.
2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 77 - Animals and Livestock › Article 17 - Abattoirs, Meat Dealers and Storage Plants › Section 77-17-16 - Repealed.

ANNOTATIONS
Repeals.
— Laws 1999, ch. 282, § 104 repealed 77-17-15 and 77-17-16 NMSA 1978, as enacted by Laws 1899, ch. 44, §§ 1 and 2, relating to purchase of dressed meats, exhibition of hides, keeping of records, inspection and penalties, effective July 1, 1999. For provisions of former sections,
see
the 1998 NMSA 1978 on
NMOneSource.com
.
2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 77 - Animals and Livestock › Article 18 - General Animal Regulations › Section 77-18-1 - Sale, purchase, trade and possession of certain animals regulated.

The sale, purchase, trade and possession with intent to keep as a pet of any subhuman primate, skunk, raccoon, fox or other sylvatic carnivore may be regulated by regulation of the health and environment department [department of health] for the protection of public health and safety.
History:
Laws 1979, ch. 194, § 6.
ANNOTATIONS
Bracketed material.
— The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Laws 1991, ch. 25, § 16 repealed former 9-7-4 NMSA 1978, relating to the health and environment department, and enacted a new 9-7-4 NMSA 1978, creating the department of health.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. —
4 Am. Jur. 2d Animals § 2 et seq.
3A C.J.S. Animals §§ 3, 6 et seq., 99 et seq., 274 et seq.
2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 77 - Animals and Livestock › Article 18 - General Animal Regulations › Section 77-18-4 - Penalty.

Any person who violates Section 1 [77-18-3 NMSA 1978] of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for a definite term of less than one year or both.
History:
Laws 1989, ch. 175, § 2.
2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 77 - Animals and Livestock › Article 18 - General Animal Regulations › Section 77-18-6 - Feral hogs; prohibition; penalty.

A. The purpose of this section is to ensure the public health, safety and welfare and to prevent the introduction or spread of disease to New Mexico's livestock and wildlife.
B. No person shall import into the state, transport within the state, hold for breeding, release or sell a live feral hog or operate a commercial feral hog hunting enterprise.
C. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for a definite term of less than one year or both.
D. As used in this section, "feral hog" means a pig that exists in an untamed state from domestication.
History:
Laws 2009, ch. 257, § 1 and Laws 2009, ch. 264, § 1.
ANNOTATIONS
Duplicate laws.
— Laws 2009, ch. 257, § 1 and Laws 2009, ch. 264, § 1 enacted identical sections, both effective June 19, 2009. Both have been compiled as 77-18-6 NMSA 1978.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 1 - Short Title; Declaration of Policy; Definitions › 102 - Declaration of Policy.

§  102.  Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy
  of the state, while protecting the interest of the  owners  thereof,  to
  utilize  escheated  lands  and unclaimed property for the benefit of all
  the people of the state, and this chapter shall be  liberally  construed
  to accomplish such purpose.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 201 - Action for Recovery of Property.

§ 201. Action for recovery of property.  Whenever the attorney-general
  has good reason to believe that the title to, or right of possession of,
  any  real  property  has  vested  in  the people of the state by escheat
  whether from defect of heirs, alienage or otherwise, or by conviction or
  outlawry for treason as provided in section eight  hundred  nineteen  of
  the code of criminal procedure, he may commence an action to recover the
  property.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 202 - Parties to Action.

§  202.  Parties to action.  There may be made parties to such action,
  all persons who would have, might  have  or  might  claim  to  have  any
  interest  in or lien upon the premises so escheated or forfeited, at the
  time of such escheat or forfeiture, and all  persons  in  possession  of
  such real property.  Where the names of the defendants are unknown, they
  may  be  designated  as  "unknown  defendants."    The provisions of law
  applicable to actions to recover  real  property  shall  apply  to  such
  actions,  except  that  service of the summons shall not be deemed to be
  complete until, pursuant to an order of the court, the summons  together
  with a notice directed to the defendants setting forth the object of the
  action,  a brief description of the land affected, the source and manner
  in and by which it  is  alleged  that  said  real  property  shall  have
  escheated or forfeited to the people, and the name or names of person or
  persons  whose  title  or  interest shall have so escheated or have been
  forfeited, shall  have  been  published  once  in  each  week  for  four
  successive  weeks  in  two  newspapers  designated in the order for such
  publication as most likely to  give  notice  to  the  defendants  to  be
  served.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 203 - Effect of Judgment in Favor of People.

§  203.  Effect  of  judgment in favor of people.  A final judgment in
  favor of the people in an action authorized as set forth in section  two
  hundred  one  is  conclusive as to the title of the people in and to the
  premises described in said judgment against any and all parties in  said
  action,  including  unknown  defendants, and against any and all persons
  claiming from, through or under such a party by title accruing after the
  filing of the judgment roll or after the filing in  the  office  of  the
  clerk  of  the  county  in which said real property or a part thereof is
  situated, a notice of the pendency of the action.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 204 - Sale of Property Recovered.

§  204.  Sale  of  property  recovered.    Upon the rendering of final
  judgment in an  action  authorized  by  section  two  hundred  one,  the
  commissioner  of  general  services may sell or transfer the property as
  unappropriated land in accordance with the provisions of  article  three
  of the public lands law.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 207 - Proceedings on Receipt of Petition.

§  207.  Proceedings on receipt of petition. Prior to the presentation
  of such petition, the petitioner shall cause  to  be  personally  served
  upon  each  person who would have succeeded to any interest in said land
  but for the alienage of such person or another or for any other rule  of
  legal  incapacity hereinbefore mentioned affecting an attempted transfer
  of such interest of such  person,  and  each  person  in  possession  or
  occupation  or  who  has  filed a protest under section two hundred ten,
  whose names and places of residence are known and cause to be  published
  in  a  newspaper published in each county in which any part of said land
  is situated, once in each week for three successive weeks  as  to  those
  whose  names  and  places  of  residence  are unknown, a notice, in form
  adopted or approved by the commissioner, directed to such persons.  Such
  notice  shall  state the date on which such petition shall be filed with
  the office of  general  services,  the  nature  of  the  application,  a
  description  of  the  property  affected  and  the name of the person or
  persons whose interest or interests shall have escheated to  the  people
  of the state of New York. Such notice shall also provide that any person
  or persons having a claim or right to said property equal to or superior
  to  the  right  of  the petitioner may file a remonstrance with the said
  commissioner on or before the date of said filing against  the  granting
  of  such  petition  and  for the granting of a release to such person or
  persons. Proof of service and of publication as aforementioned shall  be
  filed  with  the  petition. The commissioner may take proof of the facts
  alleged in said petition, by written or oral evidence, whether or not  a
  sale  or release of said property was theretofore made, the value of the
  property to be released, and such other facts as  in  his  judgment  are
  necessary  to  determine the matter.   If a remonstrance shall have been
  presented, the commissioner may take proof of the issues raised  thereby
  and  the  relief  therein asked. The commissioner may, as a condition of
  hearing the matter, require the petitioner or any remonstrant to produce
  witnesses or advance the expense of producing them.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 208 - Release.

§  208.  Release. 1. The commissioner shall make his determination and
  enter an order accordingly. The commissioner may agreeably to  the  best
  interest  of the state and in his discretion, if he deems it just to all
  persons interested, execute in the name of the state, a release on  such
  terms  and  conditions as the commissioner deems just, releasing to such
  person or persons as he  shall  have  determined  entitled  thereto  the
  interest of the state in such real property so sought to be released.
2.  A  conveyance  so  made to any such person who is a parent, child,
  surviving husband or widow of any such owner  of  any  interest  therein
  immediately  prior  to  the  escheat,  or  the  heirs-at-law of any such
  surviving husband or widow, or the alleged grantee or any person  or  of
  any association or body, whether incorporated or not, who or which would
  have  succeeded  by  devise or otherwise to the title of such person but
  for a legal incapacity to take or convey the property so escheated shall
  be without consideration, if the value, at the date of the petition,  as
  determined  by  the  commissioner,  of  all  property  of any such owner
  escheated to the state and not conveyed or released by the state,  shall
  not  exceed  one hundred thousand dollars, and of the property sought to
  be released shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, except that  any  and
  all  expenses incurred by the state in an action to recover the property
  escheated or in any action pertaining thereto, or otherwise relating  to
  the  escheated property shall be paid by such person. Where however, the
  value of the property sought to be released shall exceed the sum of  ten
  thousand  dollars  the  commissioner may release the same to such person
  upon the payment of the  appraised  value  in  excess  of  ten  thousand
  dollars and in addition thereto the expenses incurred by the state in an
  action to recover the property as aforementioned.
3.  The  release  shall  contain a brief recital of the determinations
  required to be made by the commissioner on the hearing of the  petition,
  remonstrance  or  remonstrances,  and of all the terms and conditions on
  which the release is made.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 209 - Effect of Release on Rights of Others.

§  209.  Effect  of release on rights of others. No such release shall
  impair or affect any right, title, interest or estate in or to the lands
  thereby released, of any heir-at-law,  devisee,  grantee,  mortgagee  or
  creditor  of any person having an interest in the real property released
  immediately prior to the escheat thereof, or of any person having a lien
  or incumbrance thereon, through,  under  or  by  any  person  having  an
  interest therein immediately prior to the escheat.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 210 - Protest Against Release.

§ 210. Protest against release. Any person may file, at any time, with
  the commissioner, a protest, stating his name, residence and post-office
  address,  against the release by the state of any interest of the people
  of the state acquired by escheat, in any real property described in such
  protest.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 211 - Lands Held Under Written Contract.

§  211.  Lands  held  under  written  contract.  Where lands have been
  escheated to the state and the person  last  seized  was  a  citizen  or
  capable  of  taking  and  holding  real  property the commissioner shall
  fulfill any contract made by such person or by any person from whom  his
  title  is  derived, in respect to the sale of such lands, so far only as
  to convey the right and title of the state, pursuant to  such  contract,
  without  any  covenants  of  warranty  or otherwise, and shall allow all
  payment which may have been made on such contracts.  If any part of such
  escheated land has been  occupied  under  a  verbal  agreement  for  the
  purchase  thereof,  and  the  occupants  have made valuable improvements
  thereon, such agreement shall be as valid and effectual as if it were in
  writing.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 212 - Escheated Lands Subject to Trusts and Incumbrances.

§  212.  Escheated  lands  subject  to  trusts and incumbrances. Lands
  escheated to the state shall be held subject  to  the  same  trusts  and
  incumbrances  to  which  they  would  have  been  subject  if  they  had
  descended, except that where the owner or beneficiaries of  such  trusts
  or  the holders of such incumbrances have been made parties to an action
  brought under section two hundred one, such land shall be  subject  only
  to  trusts and incumbrances of record in the county in which the land is
  located prior to the filing of notice of pendency of  action  authorized
  under section two hundred one.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 213 - Condemnation Awards as Interest in Real Property.

§  213.  Condemnation awards as interest in real property. An interest
  in real property escheated to the state shall for the purposes  of  this
  article, be deemed to include any and all awards heretofore or hereafter
  made  in  condemnation  proceedings against such escheated lands and all
  the provisions of this article shall apply to the release and assignment
  of such awards with the same force and effect  as  to  the  release  and
  conveyance of an interest in real property.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 214 - Receiver.

§  214.  Receiver.  At  any  time  during  the pendency of said action
  pursuant to section two hundred one,  the  court  may  upon  application
  therefor appoint a receiver to conserve said property and to receive the
  rents,  income  and profits therefrom during the pendency of the action.
  The rents, income and profits so received,  after  the  payment  of  the
  expenses  of  such  receivership,  shall  be  paid over to such party or
  parties as shall be determined in the final judgment to be  entitled  to
  possession  of  said  property  and  in  the  event  that the people are
  adjudged entitled thereto, shall be directed to be paid into  the  state
  treasury.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property › 215 - Claims Against State.

§  215.  Claims  against state. Where an action has been commenced and
  final judgment in favor of the people entered therein by reason  of  the
  escheat  of  real  property to the people and the said property has been
  sold pursuant to section two hundred four, any party or parties thereto,
  or their successors in interest, who, but  for  the  rendering  of  such
  final  judgment  would  have  been entitled to such real property, or an
  interest therein, shall have a claim against the state for the value  of
  such  real property or interest therein at the time of the entry of such
  judgment, but no such claim shall  exist  in  favor  of  such  party  or
  parties or their successors in interest unless a petition therefor shall
  have  been  filed  as hereinafter provided within fifteen years from the
  date of entry of such final judgment unless such  party  or  parties  to
  such  ejectment  action shall have been, at the time of the commencement
  of such action or entry of final judgment, incompetent to conduct his or
  her affairs by reason of mental illness or developmental  disability  or
  have been under the age of eighteen years, or be imprisoned in execution
  upon conviction of a criminal offense, in which event the period of such
  disability  shall  not be deemed to be a part of the time limited within
  which such petition may be  filed.  Such  party  or  parties,  or  their
  successors  in  interest  shall  petition  the  commissioner  of general
  services for payment of the sum or a part thereof received by the state,
  upon the sale made pursuant to section two hundred four,  and  the  said
  commissioner  if satisfied that the claim is just and is made by a party
  who, except for the entry of final judgment in an action  authorized  by
  section two hundred one would have been entitled to the real property or
  an  interest  therein affected by said action, may certify such facts to
  the court of claims, whereupon that court is empowered and authorized to
  determine the  amount  of  such  claim  or  claims  and  award  judgment
  therefor,  the  total  of  which  in  no  event  shall exceed the amount
  received by the people upon the sale of said real property  pursuant  to
  section two hundred four.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 3 - Unclaimed Property Held or Owing by Banking Organizations › 304 - Unclaimed Property Held by the Superintendent of Financial Services After Liquidation.

§  304.  Unclaimed  property  held  by the superintendent of financial
  services after liquidation. 1. All amounts held by the superintendent of
  financial  services  as  trustee  for  the  owners  thereof  after   the
  completion  of  the voluntary or involuntary liquidation of the business
  and property of any banking organization or of the business and property
  in this state of any foreign banking corporation, as provided in section
  thirty of the banking law, which shall not have been  claimed  and  paid
  within  four  years  after receipt by the superintendent shall be deemed
  abandoned property.
2. Any such abandoned property held by the superintendent of financial
  services to which the right  to  receive  the  same  is  established  as
  provided  in  section  thirty-one  of  the banking law shall cease to be
  deemed abandoned.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 3 - Unclaimed Property Held or Owing by Banking Organizations › 305 - Payment of Abandoned Property After Liquidation by Superintendent of Financial Services.

§   305.   Payment   of   abandoned   property  after  liquidation  by
  superintendent of financial services. 1. Not later than the first day of
  October in each year the superintendent of financial services shall  pay
  to  the  state comptroller all such abandoned property held by him which
  shall have become abandoned property at any time prior to the first  day
  of  July next preceding, excepting such abandoned property as since such
  first day of July shall have ceased to be abandoned.
2. Such payment shall be accompanied by  a  statement  signed  by  the
  superintendent  of  financial  services  setting forth the name and last
  known address of, and the amount owning to, each person appearing to  be
  the owner of any such abandoned property, or if the name is unknown, the
  nature  and  identifying  number of the indebtedness and the name of the
  banking organization or foreign  banking  corporation  from  which  such
  abandoned  property  was  received, together with such other identifying
  information as the state comptroller may require.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 3 - Unclaimed Property Held or Owing by Banking Organizations › 306 - Reimbursement for Instruments Paid.

§  306.  Reimbursement  for instruments paid. Any banking organization
  which has paid to the state comptroller abandoned property held or owing
  for the payment of a negotiable instrument or a certified check may make
  payment to  the  person  entitled  thereto,  upon  presentation  of  the
  instrument   by   such   person,   and  shall  thereby  be  entitled  to
  reimbursement of the amount paid to the comptroller. Such  reimbursement
  shall  be  made by the comptroller after audit of a claim of the banking
  organization.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 4 - Unclaimed Deposits and Refunds for Utility Services › 400 - Unclaimed Deposits and Refunds for Utility Services.

§  400.  Unclaimed  deposits and refunds for utility services.  1. The
following unclaimed moneys held  or  owing  by  a  gas  corporation,  an
electric  corporation,  a gas and electric corporation, a district steam
corporation,  a  telegraph  corporation,  a  telephone  corporation,   a
telegraph  and telephone corporation, or a waterworks corporation, shall
be deemed abandoned property:
(a) Any  deposit  made  by  a  consumer  or  subscriber  with  such  a
corporation to secure the payment for utility services furnished by such
corporation,  or the amount of such deposit after deducting any sums due
to such corporation by such consumer or subscriber,  together  with  any
interest  due thereon, which shall have remained unclaimed by the person
or persons appearing to be entitled thereto  for  two  years  after  the
termination  of the utility services to secure the payment of which such
deposit was made, or, if during such two year  period  utility  services
are  furnished  by  such  corporation to such consumer or subscriber and
such deposit is held by such corporation to secure payment therefor, for
two years after the termination of such utility services.
(b) Any amount paid by a consumer or subscriber to such a  corporation
in  advance  or  in  anticipation of utility services furnished or to be
furnished by such corporation which in  fact  is  not  furnished,  after
deducting  any  sums  due  to  such  corporation  by  such  consumer  or
subscriber for utility services in  fact  furnished,  which  shall  have
remained  unclaimed  by  the  person or persons appearing to be entitled
thereto for two years after the termination of the utility services  for
which  such amount was paid in advance or in anticipation, or, if during
such period utility services are furnished by such corporation  to  such
consumer  or  subscriber  and  such  amount is applied to the payment in
advance or in anticipation of such utility services, for two years after
the termination of such utility services.
(c) The amount of any refund of excess or increased rates  or  charges
heretofore  or  hereafter  collected by any such corporation for utility
services lawfully furnished by such corporation which has been or  shall
hereafter  lawfully be ordered refunded to a consumer or other person or
persons entitled thereto, together with any interest due  thereon,  less
any lawful deductions, which shall have remained unclaimed by the person
or  persons  entitled  thereto  for  two  years  from the date it became
payable in accordance with the final determination  or  order  providing
for such refund.
2.  Any such abandoned property held or owing by such a corporation to
which the right to receive the same is established to  the  satisfaction
of such corporation shall cease to be deemed abandoned.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 4 - Unclaimed Deposits and Refunds for Utility Services › 402 - Publication of Notice of Abandoned Property.

§  402.  Publication  of  notice  of abandoned property. 1. Every such
corporation shall cause to be published, on or before the first  day  of
September  in each year, a notice entitled: "NOTICE OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED
PROPERTY HELD BY (name of corporation)."
2. Such notice shall be published once in two newspapers published  in
the county where such deposits, payments or payments to be refunded were
made.  If there is only one newspaper published in any such county, such
notice shall be published in such newspaper. If there are no  newspapers
published  in such county, then such publication shall be in a newspaper
published in  an  adjacent  county.  Such  publication  shall  be  in  a
newspaper  printed  in the English language and any other newspaper that
will  substantially  serve  to  inform  the  public  of  such  abandoned
property. The comptroller shall promulgate rules to determine when it is
appropriate to designate an additional publication.
3.  Such  notice shall be approved as to form by the state comptroller
and shall state:
(a) that a report of unclaimed amounts of money or other property held
or owing by it has been made to the state comptroller and that a list of
the names of the person or persons appearing from the  records  of  such
corporation  to  be  entitled  thereto  is  on  file  and open to public
inspection at its principal office or place of  business  in  any  city,
village or county where any such abandoned property is payable;
(b)  that  such deposits, payments and refunds, together with interest
due thereon and less lawful deductions, will be paid by it on or  before
the succeeding thirtieth day of September to persons establishing to its
satisfaction their right to receive the same; and
(c)  that  in  the  succeeding  month of October, and on or before the
tenth day  thereof,  such  unclaimed  deposits,  payments  and  refunds,
together  with  interest  due  thereon and less lawful deductions, still
remaining will be paid to  the  state  comptroller  and  that  it  shall
thereupon cease to be liable therefor.
4. Such corporation shall file with the state comptroller on or before
the  tenth  day  of  September  in  each year proof by affidavit of such
publication.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 4 - Unclaimed Deposits and Refunds for Utility Services › 403 - Payment of Abandoned Property.

§  403.  Payment of abandoned property. 1. In such succeeding month of
October, and on or before the tenth day thereof, every such  corporation
shall  pay  to the state comptroller all property which, as of the first
day of July next preceding, was deemed  abandoned  pursuant  to  section
four hundred of this article, held or owing by such corporation.
2.  Such  payment  shall  be accompanied by a true and accurate report
setting forth such information as  the  state  comptroller  may  require
relating to such abandoned property including:
(a)  as  to  abandoned property specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of
subdivision one of section four hundred of this article:
(i) the name and last known address of each  depositor  or  subscriber
appearing from the records of such corporation to be entitled to receive
any such abandoned property;
(ii) the date when the deposit was made or amount paid;
(iii) the amount of such deposit or payment;
(iv)  the  date  when  utility  services furnished to such consumer or
subscriber ceased;
(v) any sums due and unpaid to the corporation  by  such  consumer  or
subscriber,  with  interest  thereon  from  the  date  of termination of
service;
(vi) the amount of interest due upon such deposit or  payment  on  any
balance  thereof  that  has  remained with such corporation and not been
credited to such consumer's or subscriber's account;
(vii) the amount of such abandoned property; and
(viii) such other identifying information as the state comptroller may
require.
(b) as to abandoned property specified in paragraph (c) of subdivision
one of section four hundred of this article:
(i) the name and last known address of each person appearing from  the
records of such corporation to be entitled to receive the same;
(ii)  the  amount  appearing  from  such  records  to be due each such
person;
(iii) the date payment became due; and
(iv) such other identifying information as the state  comptroller  may
require.
3. Such report shall be in such form and the abandoned property listed
shall  be  classified  in  such  manner  as  the  state  comptroller may
prescribe.  Names  of  persons  entitled  to  such  abandoned   property
appearing  in  such  report shall be listed in alphabetical order within
each such classification.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 5 - Unclaimed Property Held or Owing for Payment to Security Holders › 502 - Payment or Delivery of Abandoned Property.

§  502.  Payment or delivery of abandoned property. 1. In the month of
  March in each year, and on  or  before  the  tenth  day  thereof,  every
  domestic or foreign corporation or public corporation or fiduciary shall
  pay  or  deliver  to  the  state  comptroller  all property which on the
  preceding thirty-first day of December was deemed abandoned pursuant  to
  section  five hundred one excepting such property as since that date has
  ceased to be abandoned.
2. Where any security delivered to the state comptroller  pursuant  to
  subdivision  one hereof, is delivered by him to the issuing corporation,
  the security shall be transferred to him on the books of the corporation
  and a certificate registered in the name of the state comptroller  shall
  be  delivered  to  him  or,  if  so  requested  by the comptroller, such
  corporation shall register such securities in book  entry  form  in  the
  name  of  the  comptroller.  The  corporation  and  its  transfer agent,
  registrar or other person acting for or on behalf of the corporation  in
  executing  or  delivering  any  such  certificate  or  registering  such
  securities shall be relieved from liability to any person for any losses
  or damages resulting  from  the  issuance  and  delivery  to  the  state
  comptroller of such certificate or registration of such securities.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 5 - Unclaimed Property Held or Owing for Payment to Security Holders › 503 - Report of Abandoned Property.

§  503.  Report  of  abandoned  property.  Each payment or delivery of
abandoned property  pursuant  to  section  five  hundred  two  shall  be
accompanied  by  a  written  report, affirmed as true and accurate under
penalty of  perjury,  in  such  form  as  the  state  comptroller  shall
prescribe, setting forth:
(a)  The  name and last known address, if any, of the person appearing
to be entitled to such abandoned property;
(b) A description of such abandoned property;
(c) The number of  shares  represented  or  the  face  amount  of  the
security;
(d) The amount of any principal, dividend, interest or other increment
due thereon;
(e) The date such amount was demandable or payable; and
(f)  Such  other  identifying information as the state comptroller may
require.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 5 - Unclaimed Property Held or Owing for Payment to Security Holders › 504 - Reimbursement for Property Paid or Delivered.

§  504.  Reimbursement  for  property paid or delivered. A domestic or
  foreign corporation or public corporation or a fiduciary which has  paid
  or  delivered  to  the  state comptroller abandoned property pursuant to
  section five hundred  two  may  make  payment  to  the  person  entitled
  thereto,  and  may  file claim for reimbursement for such payment by the
  state comptroller, who shall, upon satisfactory proof  of  such  payment
  and  after  audit,  reimburse  such  domestic  or foreign corporation or
  public corporation or fiduciary.   In  no  event,  however,  shall  such
  reimbursement  exceed  the  amount  to  which  the  claimant is entitled
  pursuant to subdivision two of section fourteen hundred  three  of  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 5-A - Unclaimed Property Held by Brokers › 510 - Definitions.

§  510.  Definitions.   When used in this article, the following items
shall have the following meanings:
1. "Corporation" shall include any joint stock  company,  corporation,
association  of two or more individuals, committee, public authority, or
business trust.
2. "Public issuer" shall include the United States, the several states
and  territories   thereof,   political   subdivisions   and   municipal
corporations  within  such states and territories, foreign countries and
political subdivisions and municipal corporations  within  such  foreign
countries.
3. "Security" shall include:
(a)  Any  instrument  issued  by  a  corporation  or  public issuer to
evidence an obligation to make any payment of the principal amount of  a
debt or of any increment due or to become due thereon, or
(b)  Any  instrument issued by a corporation to evidence a proprietary
interest therein except:
(i) A policy of insurance issued by a mutual insurance corporation, or
(ii) A share issued by a savings and loan association, a building  and
loan association, or a credit union.
4.  "Broker"  shall  include any individual or corporation engaging in
the purchase, sale or exchange of securities for or  on  behalf  of  any
customer.
5.  "Dealer"  shall  include any individual or corporation engaging in
any state as a regular business in the purchase,  sale  or  exchange  of
securities for his or its own account, through a broker or otherwise.
6. (a) "Customer" shall include any individual or corporation entering
into  a  contract with a broker or dealer by which such broker or dealer
agrees to effect the purchase, sale, or exchange, or to keep custody  of
any  security  for  or  on behalf of such individual or corporation. The
term  "customer"  shall  also  include  any  individual  or  corporation
entering  into a contract with a broker or dealer whereby such broker or
dealer for his own account buys from or  sells  to  such  individual  or
corporation, any security.
(b) If on the books of account located at an office in this state of a
broker  or  dealer  there  is  indicated  a  balance to the credit of an
individual or corporation with a last-known address  in  a  state  other
than  this  state,  such individual or corporation shall not be deemed a
"customer".
7. "Amount" shall mean that term as defined in  subdivision  seven  of
section five hundred of this chapter.
8.  "Wages" shall include moneys payable, under contract or otherwise,
for services rendered to a broker or dealer, less lawful deductions.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 5-A - Unclaimed Property Held by Brokers › 512 - Payment or Delivery of Abandoned Property.

§  512. Payment or delivery of abandoned property.  1. In the month of
  March of each year, and on or before the tenth day thereof, every broker
  or dealer shall pay or deliver to the  state  comptroller  all  property
  which on the preceding thirty-first day of December was deemed abandoned
  property pursuant to section five hundred eleven excepting such property
  as since that date has ceased to be abandoned.
2.  Where  any security delivered to the state comptroller pursuant to
  subdivision one hereof, is delivered by him to the issuing  corporation,
  the security shall be transferred to him on the books of the corporation
  and  a certificate registered in the name of the state comptroller shall
  be delivered to him. The corporation and its transfer  agent,  registrar
  or  other person acting for or on behalf of the corporation in executing
  or delivering such certificate shall be relieved from liability  to  any
  person  for  any  losses  or  damages  resulting  from  the issuance and
  delivery to the state comptroller of such certificate.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 5-A - Unclaimed Property Held by Brokers › 513-A - Retention of Books and Records.

§  513-a.  Retention  of books and records.  1. Every broker or dealer
  shall retain the books and records set forth in subdivision two of  this
  section  relating  to  the  years nineteen hundred sixty-seven, nineteen
  hundred sixty-eight, nineteen hundred sixty-nine  and  nineteen  hundred
  seventy for a period of ten years following the end of the year in which
  created;  shall  retain  all such books and records relating to the year
  nineteen hundred seventy-one for a period of nine  years  following  the
  close  of  nineteen hundred seventy-one; and shall retain all such books
  and records relating to any subsequent calendar year for a period of ten
  years following the end of the year in  which  created.  The  books  and
  records  so  retained  shall  be made available to the state comptroller
  upon his request in the performance of his duties under this chapter.
2. The following books and records  shall  be  those  referred  to  in
  subdivision  one  of  this  section: general ledgers, customers ledgers;
  daily and weekly stock position records; dividend sheets; cash blotters;
  purchase and  sales  blotters;  daily  journals;  bank  reconciliations;
  cancelled  checks;  claim  letters; independent auditor's reports; trial
  balances; private ledgers; financial  statements  and  supporting  data;
  chart of accounts; and copies of abandoned property reports.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 5-A - Unclaimed Property Held by Brokers › 514 - Reimbursement of Brokers or Dealers.

§  514.  Reimbursement  of  brokers  or dealers. 1. A broker or dealer
  which has paid or delivered to the state comptroller abandoned  property
  pursuant to section five hundred twelve may elect to make payment to the
  person entitled thereto. A broker or dealer making such payment may file
  claim  for reimbursement by the state comptroller. The state comptroller
  upon satisfactory proof of such payment shall,  after  audit,  reimburse
  such  broker  or  dealer. In no event, however, shall such reimbursement
  exceed the  amount  to  which  the  claimant  is  entitled  pursuant  to
  subdivision two of section fourteen hundred three of this chapter.
2.  A  broker  or  dealer  which  has  paid  to  the state comptroller
  abandoned property  relating  to  any  of  the  years  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-seven,  nineteen  hundred sixty-eight, nineteen hundred sixty-nine
  or nineteen hundred seventy, determined pursuant to subdivision  six  of
  section  five  hundred eleven, may elect thereafter to make payment to a
  person entitled to receive (i) a stock or cash dividend received in this
  state during any such year by such broker or dealer, or nominee of  such
  broker  or  dealer,  as  the  holder of record of a security, or (ii) an
  interest payment on a security received in this state  during  any  such
  year  by  such  broker or dealer, or nominee of such broker or dealer. A
  broker  or  dealer  making  any  such  payment  may   file   claim   for
  reimbursement  by  the  state  comptroller. Subject to the provisions of
  this subdivision, the state comptroller upon satisfactory proof  that  a
  broker  or dealer has made payment to the person entitled thereto shall,
  after audit of such claim, reimburse such broker or dealer. In no  event
  shall  the  amount  or  amounts reimbursed by the state comptroller to a
  broker  or  dealer  relating  to  any  of  the  years  nineteen  hundred
  sixty-seven,  nineteen  hundred sixty-eight, nineteen hundred sixty-nine
  or nineteen hundred seventy, plus amounts paid by the state  comptroller
  to  any  person claiming such abandoned property relating to any of such
  years, exceed the amount paid by the  broker  or  dealer  to  the  state
  comptroller  pursuant  to subdivision six of section five hundred eleven
  relating to such year. In no event shall the amount paid  by  the  state
  comptroller to any person claiming a stock dividend received by a broker
  or dealer, or nominee of such broker or dealer, in any of such years, or
  to  a  broker  or dealer in reimbursement of any such claim paid by such
  broker or dealer, exceed the  value  of  such  stock  dividend  as  most
  recently reported by any generally recognized statistical service on the
  thirty-first  day of December of the year in which such stock was deemed
  abandoned property.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 6 - Unclaimed or Unknown Owner Court Funds › 600 - Unclaimed or Unknown Owner Court Funds.

§  600.  Unclaimed  or  unknown  owner  court  funds. 1. The following
unclaimed property shall be deemed abandoned property:
(a) Any moneys including  the  monetary  proceeds  from  the  sale  of
tangible  personal  property and securities or other intangible property
paid into court, which, except as provided in  section  ten  hundred  of
this  chapter, shall have remained in the hands of any county treasurer,
or the commissioner of finance of the city of New York, for three years,
together with all accumulations of interest or other increment  thereon,
less such legal fees as he may be entitled to.
(b)  The  monetary  proceeds  representing  any legacy or distribution
share to which an unknown person is entitled, as  specified  in  section
two  thousand  two hundred twenty-two of the surrogate's court procedure
act.
2. Any abandoned property held or owing by a county treasurer  or  the
commissioner  of  finance  of the city of New York to which the right to
receive the same is established  to  the  satisfaction  of  such  county
treasurer or commissioner of finance of the city of New York shall cease
to be abandoned.
3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, deposits made with
a county treasurer or the commissioner of finance of  the  city  of  New
York  pursuant to order of a court, made subsequent to the second day of
April nineteen hundred fifty-two, for the benefit of a person who was an
infant at the time of the making of such order, shall not be subject  to
the  provisions  of  this  chapter  until such infant attains the age of
eighteen years.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 6 - Unclaimed or Unknown Owner Court Funds › 601 - Publication of List of Abandoned Property.

§ 601. Publication of list of abandoned property.  1. On or before the
first  day  of  February  in  each  year,  such  county treasurer or the
commissioner of finance of the city  of  New  York  shall  cause  to  be
published  a  notice  entitled: "NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS
OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY (title of officer)."
2. Such notice shall be published once in two newspapers published  in
the  county  where  such abandoned property is held, except that if such
abandoned property is held by the commissioner of finance of the city of
New York it shall be published once in two newspapers published daily in
the city of New York, not more than one of which shall be  published  in
any  one  county.  If  there is only one newspaper published in any such
county, such notice shall be published in such newspaper, or,  if  there
are  no  newspapers  published  in  such  county,  then  in  a newspaper
published in  an  adjacent  county.  Such  publication  shall  be  in  a
newspaper  printed  in the English language and any other newspaper that
will  substantially  serve  to  inform  the  public  of  such  abandoned
property. The comptroller shall promulgate rules to determine when it is
appropriate to designate an additional publication.
3.  Such  notice  shall  be  classified as the state comptroller shall
prescribe and shall set forth:
(a) the names and last-known addresses, in alphabetical order, of  all
persons  appearing  to be entitled to any such abandoned property, as of
the first day of January next preceding, amounting to fifty  dollars  or
more,  except  the  names  of  persons  appearing  to  be  the owners of
abandoned property which since such date has  ceased  to  be  abandoned.
With  the  consent  of  the  state  comptroller, the name and last known
address of any person may be omitted  from  such  notice  where  special
circumstances make it desirable that such information be withheld;
(b) such other information as the state comptroller may require; and
(c) a statement
(i)  that  a list of the names contained in such notice is on file and
open to public inspection at the office of such officer;
(ii) that such unclaimed moneys or other  property  will  be  paid  or
delivered  by  him on or before the thirty-first day of March to persons
establishing to his satisfaction their right to receive the same; and
(iii) that in the succeeding month of April,  and  on  or  before  the
tenth  day  thereof,  such  unclaimed  moneys  or  other  property still
remaining will be paid or delivered to the state comptroller and that he
shall thereupon cease to be liable therefor.
4. Such county treasurer or commissioner of finance of the city of New
York shall file with the state comptroller on or before the tenth day of
February in each year proof by affidavit of such publication.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 6 - Unclaimed or Unknown Owner Court Funds › 602 - Payment of Abandoned Property.

§  602.  Payment of abandoned property. 1. In such succeeding month of
  April, and on or before the tenth day thereof,  every  county  treasurer
  and  the  commissioner  of  finance of the city of New York shall pay or
  deliver to the state comptroller all  abandoned  property  specified  in
  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision one of section six hundred, which was so
  abandoned as of the first day of January next preceding.
2. Within thirty days after  a  decree  as  provided  by  section  two
  thousand  two hundred twenty-two of the surrogate's court procedure act,
  the executor, administrator, guardian or testamentary trustee shall  pay
  or  deliver to the state comptroller all abandoned property specified in
  paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section six hundred.
4. A payment or delivery of abandoned property  required  to  be  made
  pursuant  to subdivision one or subdivision three of this section may be
  made without an order.
2023 New York Laws › ABP - Abandoned Property › Article 6 - Unclaimed or Unknown Owner Court Funds › 603 - Report to Accompany Payment.

§  603.  Report  to  accompany payment. Each such payment of abandoned
property pursuant to section six hundred two shall be accompanied  by  a
written  report, affirmed as true and accurate under penalty of perjury,
classified as the state comptroller shall prescribe, setting forth:
(a) The names and  last  known  addresses,  if  any,  of  the  persons
entitled to receive such abandoned property;
(b)  The  title of any proceeding relating to such abandoned property;
and
(c) Such other identifying information as the  state  comptroller  may
require.