SB3121 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB3121

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Dan Rutherford - Frank C. Watson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

765 ILCS 1025/1

from Ch. 141, par. 101

Amends the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act. Adds a caption to the definitions Section of the Act.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning unclaimed property.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(765 ILCS 1025/1) (from Ch. 141, par. 101)

Sec. 1. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Banking organization" means any bank, trust company, savings bank, industrial bank, land bank, safe deposit company, or a private banker.

(b) "Business association" means any corporation, joint stock company, business trust, partnership, or any association, limited liability company, or other business entity consisting of one or more persons, whether or not for profit.

(c) "Financial organization" means any savings and loan association, building and loan association, credit union, currency exchange, co-operative bank, mutual funds, or investment company.

(d) "Holder" means any person in possession of property subject to this Act belonging to another, or who is trustee in case of a trust, or is indebted to another on an obligation subject to this Act.

(e) "Life insurance corporation" means any association or corporation transacting the business of insurance on the lives of persons or insurance appertaining thereto, including, but not by way of limitation, endowments and annuities.

(f) "Owner" means a depositor in case of a deposit, a beneficiary in case of a trust, a creditor, claimant, or payee in case of other property, or any person having a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this Act, or his legal representative.

(g) "Person" means any individual, business association, financial organization, government or political subdivision or agency, public authority, estate, trust, or any other legal or commercial entity.

(h) "Utility" means any person who owns or operates, for public use, any plant, equipment, property, franchise, or license for the transmission of communications or the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery, or furnishing of electricity, water, steam, oil or gas.

(i) (Blank).

(j) "Insurance company" means any person transacting the kinds of business enumerated in Section 4 of the Illinois Insurance Code other than life insurance.

(k) "Economic loss", as used in Sections 2a and 9 of this Act includes, but is not limited to, delivery charges, mark-downs and write-offs, carrying costs, restocking charges, lay-aways, special orders, issuance of credit memos, and the costs of special services or goods provided that reduce the property value or that result in lost sales opportunity.

(l) "Reportable property" means property, tangible or intangible, presumed abandoned under this Act that must be appropriately and timely reported and remitted to the Office of the State Treasurer under this Act. Interest, dividends, stock splits, warrants, or other rights that become reportable property under this Act include the underlying security or commodity giving rise to the interest, dividend, split, warrant, or other right to which the owner would be entitled.

(m) "Firearm" has the meaning ascribed to that term in the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.

(Source: P.A. 90-167, eff. 7-23-97; 91-16, eff. 7-1-99; 91-748, eff. 6-2-00.)