A holder, except an agency of this state, may deduct from property presumed abandoned a charge imposed by reason of the owner‘s failure to claim the property within a specified time if there is a valid and enforceable written contract between the holder and the owner under which the holder may impose the charge and the holder regularly imposes the charge and the charge is not regularly reversed or otherwise canceled. The amount of the deduction is limited to an amount that is not unconscionable.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 44-305

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Holder: means a person who is obligated to hold for the account of or deliver or pay to the owner property that is subject to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 44-301
  • Owner: means a person who has a legal or equitable interest in property that is subject to this chapter or the person's legal representative. See Arizona Laws 44-301
  • Property: means tangible property pursuant to section 44-303 or a fixed and certain interest in intangible property that is held, issued or owed in the course of a holder's business or by a government, governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality and all income or increments from that property. See Arizona Laws 44-301
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any territory or insular possession that is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 44-301
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