2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes Subtitle 2. Financial Institutions Generally 286.2.105 Examination of contents of a decedent's safe deposit box to find will or funeral arrangements.
KY Rev Stat § 286.2.105 (1996 through Reg Sess) What's This?
286.2-105 Examination of contents of a decedent's safe deposit box to find will or
funeral arrangements.
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If satisfactory proof of the death of the lessee is presented and the interested person
possesses a key to the lessee's safe deposit box, a lessor shall permit an interested
person to open and examine the contents of a safe deposit box leased by a decedent
in the presence of an employee of the lessor for one (1) or both of the following
purposes:
(a) To conduct a will search; and
(b) To obtain any document purporting to be a deed to a burial plot or to give
funeral or burial instructions.
If the safe deposit box is opened for the purpose of conducting a will search, an
employee of the lessor shall remove any document that appears to be a will and
make a true and correct machine copy thereof, replace the copy in the box, and then
deliver the original thereof to the person requesting the search.
If the safe deposit box is opened for the purpose of obtaining any document
purporting to be a deed to a burial plot or to give funeral or burial instructions, the
employee of the lessor shall make a true and correct machine copy thereof, replace
the copy in the box, and then deliver the original thereof to the person requesting
the search.
No contents of a safe deposit box other than a will and a document purporting to be
a deed to a burial plot or to give funeral or burial instructions may be removed
under this section.
Effective: June 21, 2001
History: Created 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 2, effective June 21, 2001.
Formerly codified as KRS 286.105.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). In accordance with 2006 Ky. Acts
ch. 247, secs. 38 and 39, this statute has been renumbered as a section of the
Kentucky Financial Services Code, KRS Chapter 286.
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