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[CITE: 12USC216a]

 
                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING
 
                        CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL BANKS
 
SUBCHAPTER XVII--DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY RECOVERED FROM CLOSED 
                             NATIONAL BANKS
 
Sec. 216a. Definitions

    For purposes of this subchapter--
        (1) the term ``Comptroller'' means the Comptroller of the 
    Currency;
        (2) the term ``unclaimed property'' means any articles, items, 
    assets, other property, or the proceeds thereof from safe deposit 
    boxes or other safekeeping arrangements with closed national banks 
    or closed banks in the District of Columbia, which are in the 
    possession, custody, or control of the Comptroller in its capacity 
    as successor to receivers of those banks; and
        (3) the term ``claimant'' means any person or entity, including 
    a State under applicable statutory law, asserting a demonstrable 
    legal interest in title to, or custody or possession of, unclaimed 
    property.

(Pub. L. 96-221, title VII, Sec. 732, as added Pub. L. 97-320, title IV, 
Sec. 408, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1513.)
