2016 New York Laws
ABP - Abandoned Property
Article 13 - (Abandoned Property) MISCELLANEOUS UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
1304 - Unclaimed personal property of persons in certain state institutions.

  1304.  Unclaimed  personal  property  of  persons  in certain state
  institutions. 1. The following unclaimed property belonging or  credited
  to  a discharged, deceased or escaped person in an institution under the
  jurisdiction of the department of social  services,  the  department  of
  health,  the  department of mental hygiene, the executive department, or
  the department of corrections and community supervision shall be  deemed
  abandoned property:
(a)  Any  moneys  or  intangible  personal  property  which  has  been
  inventoried pursuant to section one hundred twenty-eight  of  the  state
  finance law, and
(b)  Any  proceeds,  less  lawful  deductions, from a sale of tangible
  personal property, other than money, pursuant  to  section  one  hundred
  twenty-eight of the state finance law.
2. Any such abandoned property shall be paid or delivered forthwith to
  the  state  comptroller.  Such payment shall be accompanied by a written
  report, affirmed as true and accurate under penalty of perjury,  setting
  forth such identifying information as the state comptroller may require.
3. The rights of any such discharged, deceased or escaped person in or
  to  any  unclaimed  passbook, negotiable instrument or other evidence of
  indebtedness or ownership delivered to the state comptroller pursuant to
  this section shall pass to the state comptroller as custodian under this
  chapter.