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2015 New York Laws
PEP - Personal Property
Article 7-B - (Personal Property) LOST AND FOUND PROPERTY
255 - Disposition of instruments.

NY Pers Prop L § 255 (2015) What's This?
 255. Disposition of instruments. 1. An instrument deposited with the
  police shall be delivered to the person entitled thereto upon payment of
  all reasonable expenses incurred in connection therewith.

2. No instrument deposited with the police shall be destroyed or sold.
  Except   as  provided  in  subdivision  three  of  section  two  hundred
  fifty-six, no such instrument shall be returned to the  finder,  or  his
  employer,  or the person who deposited it with the police, or the person
  upon whose premises it was found.

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