2005 Montana Code Annotated - 70-9-403 — Property unclaimed within 90 days to be sold - notice - surplus.

     70-9-403. Property unclaimed within 90 days to be sold -- notice -- surplus. (1) If no person calls for the property within 90 days from the receipt thereof and pays freight and charges thereon, the carrier, commission merchant, or warehouseman may sell such property or so much thereof, at auction to the highest bidder, as will pay freight and charges, first having given 20 days' notice of the time and place of sale to the owner, consignee, or consignor, when known, and by advertisement in a daily paper 10 days (or if in a weekly paper, 4 weeks), published where such sale is to take place.
     (2) If any surplus is left after paying freight, storage, cost of advertising, and other reasonable charges, the same must be paid over to the owner of such property at any time thereafter, upon demand being made therefor or within 60 days after the sale.

     History: En. Sec. 2921, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 2004, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7668, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 3153; re-en. Sec. 7668, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 20-309.