Title 50, Title 50: Lost and Unclaimed Property

Sec. 50-1. Disposition of perishable property. All goods of a perishable nature left with any person, when the owner is unknown or when the owner neglects to take them away after reasonable notice, shall be advertised at least one week in a newspaper published in the county where…

Sec. 50-10. Duties of finder. Any person who finds and takes possession of any article of the value of one dollar or more shall report the finding of such article to the police department of the municipality in which he finds such article within forty-eight hours from the time of…

Sec. 50-11. Advertising; sale of perishable goods. The police department shall, commencing within one week from the date of receipt of any lost article, advertise a general description of such article once a week for at least two successive weeks in a newspaper having a circulati…

Sec. 50-12. Restoration to owner if claimed. If the owner of any such article claims it within six months from the date of receipt by the police department, the article or the proceeds thereof shall be restored to him upon payment or deduction of all proper charges. (1949 Rev., S…

Sec. 50-13. Procedure if unclaimed. If no owner claims such article within six months from the receipt thereof by the police department, the police department shall, within two weeks thereafter, notify the finder of such fact by registered or certified mail at his last-known addr…

Sec. 50-14. Disposition after expiration of time for making claim. The police commissioners of such municipality shall sell at public auction any articles which it acquires as provided herein after the expiration of the time for the owner or finder to demand the same and after th…

Sec. 50-2. Disposition of goods not perishable. All goods not perishable, left with any person or upon any public wharf or highway, and all goods, other than personal baggage of passengers, which are left at any railroad station or in any railroad car or carriage, and whose owner…

Sec. 50-3. Expressmen and common carriers; goods not perishable. Each person engaged in the express business, and each common carrier, who has in his possession for six months any unclaimed article not perishable, may sell it at auction and out of the proceeds retain the charges …

Sec. 50-4. Disposition of perishable goods. If such unclaimed article is in its nature perishable, it may be sold by such person engaged in the express business or as a common carrier, as soon as its condition makes it necessary and without the notice required in section 50-3. (1…

Sec. 50-5. Avails to be accounted for. Escheat. Such person engaged in the express business or as a common carrier shall make an entry on his books of the balance of the proceeds of such sales, credited to the person to whom such article was directed, as nearly as can be ascertai…

Secs. 50-6 and 50-7. Disposition of stray beasts; lost goods. Restoration to owner if claimed; procedure if unclaimed. Sections 50-6 and 50-7 are repealed, effective October 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 7291, 7292; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 68; P.A. 77-183, S. 277, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 240, …

Sec. 50-8. Marine vegetable deposits. No right in any marine vegetable deposit, thrown up by the sea or by a navigable river, shall be acquired by any person by his gathering it together upon any public beach, unless he removes it within twenty-four hours thereafter. (1949 Rev., …

Sec. 50-9. Lost goods; towns may adopt procedure for. Sections 50-10 to 50-14, inclusive, shall apply only to a municipality in which there is a police department and in which the provisions of said sections have been adopted by ordinance. Any statutory provision inconsistent wit…