2010 New York Code
BNK - Banking
Article 2 - (10 - 45) BANKING DEPARTMENT; SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS; SUPERVISORY AND REGULATORY POWERS
31 - Index of persons entitled to unclaimed amounts; payment to persons entitled; deduction of service charge.

§ 31.  Index  of  persons  entitled  to  unclaimed amounts; payment to
  persons entitled; deduction of service charge. An index shall be kept in
  the office of the department of the names of all persons  for  whom  the
  superintendent  holds in trust any unclaimed amounts. The superintendent
  may pay over any such amount which he holds in trust amounting  to  over
  three  dollars  to any person who shall show by evidence satisfactory to
  the superintendent that he is lawfully entitled to receive it. In  cases
  of  doubt or conflicting claims, he may require of the claimant an order
  of the supreme court authorizing and directing the payment thereof.  The
  superintendent  shall  be  held  harmless and shall not be liable to any
  subsequent claimant for any payment made by him  in  good  faith.    The
  superintendent  shall  deduct  from  the  amount  of  any claim of fifty
  dollars or more allowed by him or ordered by the  court  to  be  paid  a
  service  charge  of one percentum of the amount thereof, but in no event
  less than one dollar and, in  addition,  any  costs,  disbursements  and
  legal  fees  which  the court may allow. The amount so deducted shall be
  paid into the state  treasury  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of
  section seventeen of this chapter.