2015 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 8 - (State Finance) FISCAL SUPERVISION OF CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS
128 - Disposition of unclaimed personal property.

  128.  Disposition  of  unclaimed personal property. 1. Any personal
  property, and any interest or increments accruing thereon, belonging  or
  credited  to  a  person in any institution under the jurisdiction of the
  office of children and family services, the department  of  health,  the
  department   of   mental  hygiene,  the  executive  department,  or  the
  department of corrections and community supervision who shall have  been
  discharged  from  such  institution  or  who  shall have died or escaped
  before discharge or before termination of  sentence,  which  is  in  the
  custody  of  the proper officer of such institution, shall, if unclaimed
  by such discharged or escaped person or by the legal  representative  of
  such  deceased  person  for  a period of six months after the discharge,
  decease or escape of such person, be fully inventoried  and  a  copy  of
  such  inventory  shall be filed with the commissioner of such department
  having  jurisdiction  over  such  institution   and   with   the   state
  comptroller.
2.  Any  such  personal  property  consisting  of  money or intangible
  property shall be paid or delivered forthwith, by such officer,  to  the
  state comptroller pursuant to the provisions of section thirteen hundred
  four of the abandoned property law.
3.  Such  commissioner  shall  cause  any  such property consisting of
  tangible personal property, other than money, except  such  property  as
  such  commissioner may determine to be valueless or of such little value
  that the probable proceeds of a sale thereof would be less than the cost
  of  such  sale,  which  property  may  be  ordered  destroyed  by   such
  commissioner, to be sold at public or private sale as determined by such
  commissioner, and the proceeds from such sale, less the expenses of such
  sale, including the costs of any advertising, shall be paid to the state
  comptroller  pursuant to the provisions of section thirteen hundred four
  of the abandoned property law.