New York Abandoned Property Law Article 14 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 1400 - Statutes of Limitations Not a Bar.
  The expiration of any period of time specified by law, during which an action or proceeding may be commenced or enforced to secure payment of...
• 1401 - Comptroller to Maintain Public Record.
  The state comptroller shall maintain a public record of all names and last known addresses of the person or persons appearing to be entitled to...
• 1402 - Publication of Abandoned Property by State Comptroller.
  1. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in section fourteen hundred one of this article, the comptroller shall maintain on his or her...
• 1403 - Sale of Personal Property by State Comptroller.
  1. Except as provided in subdivision one-a of this section, all abandoned property, other than money, heretofore paid to the state shall, prior to October...
• 1404 - Assumption of Liability by the State; Return of Property Erroneously Paid to State Comptroller.
  1. The care and custody, subject only to the duty of conversion prescribed in section fourteen hundred two of this chapter, of all abandoned property...
• 1405 - Accrual of Interest After Payment of Abandoned Property to the State Comptroller.
  1. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no owner of abandoned property shall be entitled to receive interest on account of such abandoned property...
• 1406 - Claims for Abandoned Property Heretofore or Hereafter Paid to the State.
  1. (a) Claim may be filed with the state comptroller for any abandoned property amounting to over three dollars heretofore paid to the state or...
• 1407 - Payment by Comptroller.
  Any claim which is allowed by the comptroller or ordered to be paid by him by a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the provisions...
• 1409 - Payment for Publication.
  Any amount paid by a person to a newspaper or newspapers for any publication of names as required by this chapter shall be charged pro...
• 1410 - Designation of Newspapers.
  Any notice required by this chapter shall be published in such newspapers as shall be designated by the state comptroller, except that in no case...
• 1411 - Waiver of Publication.
  The state comptroller may waive the publication of any notice required by this chapter, except a notice required by section fourteen hundred two, whenever in...
• 1412 - Penalty, Interest and Special Proceedings.
  1412. Penalty, interest and special proceedings 1. Any person wilfully failing to make any full and complete report or to file any affidavit required by...
• 1412-a - Retention of Books and Records.
  1. Except as provided in section five hundred thirteen-a of this chapter, every person, co-partnership, unincorporated association or corporation required to file a report of...
• 1413 - Penalty for Fraudulent Returns.
  The making of a willful false oath in any report required under the provisions of this chapter shall be perjury and punishable as such according...
• 1414 - Comptroller to Make Regulations.
  The state comptroller is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
• 1415 - Deduction of Certain Charges.
  No deduction shall be made for service, handling or maintenance charges from property subject to the abandoned property law, by the holder of such property,...
• 1416 - Restriction on Agreement to Locate And/or Retrieve Abandoned Property.
  1. For the purposes of this section, "abandoned property location services" shall include any service for a fee providing assistance to consumers for the purposes...
• 1417 - Agreements With Other States.
  1. The state comptroller is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of other states to effectuate the purposes of this...
• 1418 - Property for New York Residents Held by Other States.
  1. All property heretofore or hereafter reported and paid to any other state pursuant to the provisions of such other state's unclaimed property laws shall...
• 1419 - Reporting of Abandoned Property in the Aggregate.
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, the holder of property which must be reported and delivered to the state comptroller as abandoned...
• 1420 - Property Held by Agricultural Cooperative Corporation.
  1420. Property held by agricultural cooperative corporations. 1. For the purposes of this section, "agricultural cooperative corporation" shall include any corporation organized or qualified to...
• 1421 - Property Held by Rural Electric Cooperatives.
  1. For the purposes of this section, "rural electric cooperatives" shall include any corporation organized or qualified to do business in this state pursuant to...
• 1422 - Mailing of Notice to Owners of Record.
  1. Any holder of unclaimed funds which is not otherwise required to perform owner notification mailings under the provisions of this chapter shall send, not...

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