Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 46:30B-22

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Insurance company: means an association, corporation, fraternal or mutual benefit organization, whether or not for profit, which is engaged in providing insurance coverage, including accident, burial, casualty, credit life, contract performance, dental, fidelity, fire, health, hospitalization, illness, life (including endowments and annuities), malpractice, marine, mortgage, surety, and wage protection insurance. See New Jersey Statutes 46:30B-6
  • Property: means tangible property described in R. See New Jersey Statutes 46:30B-6
46:30B-22. Presumption of abandonment. Funds held or owing under any life or endowment insurance policy or annuity contract that has matured or terminated are presumed abandoned if unclaimed for more than three years after the funds became due and payable as established from the records of the insurance company holding or owing the funds, but property described in subsection b. of R.S.46:30B-24 is presumed abandoned if unclaimed for more than two years.

L.1989, c.58, s.1; amended 2002, c.35, s.18.