Title 41, Personal Property.

(a) The Administrator shall pay or deliver property to a claimant under § 41-159.03(a) if the Administrator receives evidence sufficient to establish to the satisfaction of the Administrator that the claimant is the owner of the property. (b) Not later than 90 days after a claim …

(a) Not later than 45 days after a claim is allowed under § 41-159.04(b), the Administrator shall pay or deliver to the owner the property or pay to the owner the net proceeds of a sale of the property, together with income or gain to which the owner is entitled under § 41-156.07…

Not later than one year after filing a claim under § 41-159.03(a), the claimant may commence an action against the Administrator in the Superior Court to establish a claim that has been denied or deemed denied under [§ 41-159.03].

(a) If a person does not file a report required by § 41-154.01 or the Administrator believes that a person may have filed an inaccurate, incomplete, or false report, the Administrator may require the person to file a verified report in a form prescribed by the Administrator. The …

(a) The Administrator, at reasonable times and on reasonable notice, may: (1) Examine the records of a person, including examination of appropriate records in the possession of an agent of the person under examination, if the records are reasonably necessary to determine whether …

(a) The Administrator shall adopt rules governing procedures and standards for an examination under § 41-160.02, including rules for use of an estimation, extrapolation, and statistical sampling in conducting an examination. (b) An examination under § 41-160.02 shall be performed…

(a) Records obtained and records, including work papers, compiled by the Administrator in the course of conducting an examination under § 41-158.02: (1) Are subject to the confidentiality and security provisions of subchapter XIV of this chapter and are not public records; (2) Ma…

(a) A record of a putative holder showing an unpaid debt or undischarged obligation is prima facie evidence of the debt or obligation. (b) A putative holder may establish by a preponderance of the evidence that there is no unpaid debt or undischarged obligation for a debt or obli…

If a person subject to examination under § 41-160.02 does not retain the records required by § 41-154.04, the Administrator may determine the value of property due using a reasonable method of estimation based on all information available to the Administrator, including extrapola…

(a) At the conclusion of an examination under § 41-160.02, the Administrator shall provide to the person whose records were examined a complete and unredacted examination report that specifies: (1) The work performed; (2) The property types reviewed; (3) The methodology of any es…

(a) If a person subject to examination under § 41-160.02 believes the person conducting the examination has made an unreasonable or unauthorized request or is not proceeding expeditiously to complete the examination, the person in a record may ask the Administrator to intervene a…

(a) In this section, "related to the Administrator" means an individual who is: (1) The Administrator's spouse, partner in a civil union, domestic partner, or reciprocal beneficiary; (2) The Administrator's child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, sibling, step-sibling, …

The Administrator or an individual employed by the Administrator who participates in, recommends, or approves the award of a contract under § 41-160.09(b) is subject to the Code of Conduct, or other ethical rules, applicable to employees in the Office of the Chief Financial Offic…

(a) Pursuant to a request of the Mayor, the Administrator shall compile and submit a report containing information about property presumed abandoned for the preceding fiscal year for the District. The information requested may include: (1) The total amount and value of all proper…

If the Administrator determines from an examination conducted under § 41-160.02 that a putative holder failed or refused to pay or deliver to the Administrator property that is reportable under this chapter, the Administrator shall issue a determination of the putative holder's l…

(a) Not later than 30 days after receipt of a notice under § 41-161.01, the putative holder may request an informal conference with the Administrator to review the determination. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Administrator may designate an employee to act on b…

(a) Not later than 90 days after receiving notice of the Administrator's determination under § 41-161.01, a putative holder may request a hearing on the Administrator's determination by the Office of Administrative Hearings, which shall make findings of fact and conclusions of la…

(a) If a determination under § 41-161.01 becomes final and is not subject to administrative or judicial review, the Administrator may request that the Attorney General bring an action in the Superior Court or in an appropriate court of another state to enforce the determination a…

(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Administrator may: (1) Exchange information with another state or foreign country relating to property presumed abandoned or relating to the possible existence of property presumed abandoned; and (2) Authorize in a record another…

(a) The Administrator may request that the Attorney General join another state or foreign country to examine and seek enforcement of this chapter against a putative holder. (b) On request of another state or foreign country, the Attorney General may commence an action on behalf o…

(a) A holder that fails to report, pay, or deliver property within the time prescribed by this chapter shall pay to the Administrator interest at 10% per year on the property or value of the property from the date the property should have been reported, paid, or delivered to the …

(a) If a holder enters into a contract or other arrangement for the purpose of evading an obligation under this chapter or otherwise willfully fails to perform a duty imposed on the holder under this chapter, the Administrator may require the holder to pay the Administrator, in a…

The Administrator: (1) May waive, in whole or in part, interest under § 41-162.04(a) and penalties under § 41-162.04(b) or § 41-162.05; and (2) Shall waive a penalty under § 41-162.04(b) if the Administrator determines that the holder acted in good faith and without negligence.

(a) A holder is entitled to a hearing on the Administrator's imposition of a civil penalty or interest under § 41-162.04 or a civil penalty under § 41-162.05 by the Office of Administrative Hearings, which shall make findings of fact and conclusions of law and render a final orde…

(a) An agreement by an apparent owner and another person, the primary purpose of which is to locate, deliver, recover, or assist in the location, delivery, or recovery of property held by the Administrator, is enforceable only if the agreement: (1) Is in a record that clearly sta…

(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, an agreement under § 41-163.01 is void if it is entered into during the period beginning on the date the property was paid or delivered by a holder to the Administrator and ending 24 months after the payment or delivery. (b) If a pro…

(a) An apparent owner that contracts with another person to locate, deliver, recover, or assist in the location, delivery, or recovery of property of the apparent owner which is held by the Administrator may designate the person as the agent of the apparent owner. The designation…

(a) In this subchapter, "personal information" means: (1) Information that identifies or reasonably can be used to identify an individual, such as first and last name in combination with the individual's: (A) Social security number or other government-issued number or identifier;…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the following are confidential and exempt from public inspection or disclosure: (1) Records of the Administrator and the Administrator's agent related to the administration of this chapter; (2) Reports and records of a holder in t…

(a) When reasonably necessary to enforce or implement this chapter, the Administrator may disclose confidential information concerning property held by the Administrator or the Administrator's agent only to: (1) An apparent owner or the apparent owner's personal representative, a…

(a) A person to be examined under § 41-160.02 may require, as a condition of disclosure of the records of the person to be examined, that each person having access to the records disclosed in the examination execute and deliver to the person to be examined a confidentiality agree…

Except as otherwise provided in §§ 41-155.01 and 41-155.02, a holder is not required under this chapter to include confidential information in a notice the holder is required to provide to an apparent owner under this chapter.

(a) If a holder is required to include confidential information in a report to the Administrator, the information must be provided by a secure means. (b) If confidential information in a record is provided to and maintained by the Administrator or Administrator's agent as require…

(a) Except to the extent prohibited by law other than this chapter, the Administrator or Administrator's agent shall notify a holder as soon as practicable of: (1) A suspected loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or destruction of confidential informatio…

(a) If a claim is made or action commenced arising out of an event described in § 41-164.07(a) relating to confidential information possessed by an Administrator's agent, the Administrator's agent shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless a holder and the holder's affiliates, of…

In applying and construing this uniform act consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

This chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, approved June 30, 2000 (114 Stat. 464; 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.), but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act (15 U.S.C. § 7001(c)), or authorize el…

(a) An initial report filed under this chapter for property that was not required to be reported before November 13,2021, but that is required to be reported under this chapter, must include all items of property that would have been presumed abandoned during the 10-year period p…

All funds in the trust fund established under § 41-123 shall be transferred to the Unclaimed Property Account, established under § 41-158.01(a).

(a) This chapter shall not apply to an unclaimed deposit for excavation work in public space. (b) The Mayor shall establish, by rule, the standards and procedures for determining: (1) Whether and when an unclaimed deposit for excavation work in public space will be considered aba…