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House Amendment 3543

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 499 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the follow-
  1  3 ing:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 556.1, Code 1995, is amended
  1  5 by adding the following new subsection:
  1  6    NEW SUBSECTION.  5A.  "Money order" includes an
  1  7 express money order and a personal money order, on
  1  8 which the remitter is the purchaser.  "Money order"
  1  9 does not include a bank money order or any other
  1 10 instrument sold by a banking or financial organization
  1 11 if the seller has obtained the name and address of the
  1 12 payee.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 556.2, subsection 4, Code 1995, is
  1 14 amended to read as follows:
  1 15    4.  Any sum payable on checks certified in this
  1 16 state or on written instruments issued in this state
  1 17 on which a banking or financial organization or
  1 18 business association is directly liable, including, by
  1 19 way of illustration but not of limitation,
  1 20 certificates of deposit, drafts, money orders, and
  1 21 traveler's checks, that, with the exception of
  1 22 traveler's checks and money orders, has been
  1 23 outstanding for more than three years from the date it
  1 24 was payable, or from the date of its issuance if
  1 25 payable on demand, or, in the case of traveler's
  1 26 checks, that has been outstanding for more than
  1 27 fifteen years from the date of its issuance, or, in
  1 28 the case of money orders, that has been outstanding
  1 29 for more than seven years from the date of issuance,
  1 30 unless the owner has within three years, or within
  1 31 fifteen years in the case of traveler's checks or
  1 32 seven years in the case of money orders, corresponded
  1 33 in writing with the banking or financial organization
  1 34 or business association concerned, or otherwise
  1 35 indicated an interest as evidenced by a memorandum on
  1 36 file with the banking or financial organization or
  1 37 business association.  The memorandum shall be dated
  1 38 and may have been prepared by the banking or financial
  1 39 organization or business association, in which case it
  1 40 shall be signed by an officer of the banking or
  1 41 financial organization, or a member of the business
  1 42 association, or it may have been prepared by the
  1 43 owner."
  1 44    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 45 
  1 46 
  1 47                              
  1 48 JACOBS of Polk
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  1 50 
  2  1                              
  2  2 LAMBERTI of Polk
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  2  5                              
  2  6 CATALDO of Polk
  2  7 HF 499.501 76
  2  8 ec/jw
     

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