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Senate Amendment 3136

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 375 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 and money orders, that, with the
  1 22 exception of traveler's checks, has been outstanding
  1 23 for more than three years from the date it was
  1 24 payable, or from the date of its issuance if payable
  1 25 on demand, or, in the case of traveler's checks, that
  1 26 has been outstanding for more than fifteen years from
  1 27 the date of its issuance, or, in the case of money
  1 28 orders, that has been outstanding for more than seven
  1 29 years from the date of issuance, unless the owner has
  1 30 within three years, or within fifteen years in the
  1 31 case of traveler's checks or seven years in the case
  1 32 of money orders, corresponded in writing with the
  1 33 banking or financial organization or business
  1 34 association concerned, or otherwise indicated an
  1 35 interest as evidenced by a memorandum on file with the
  1 36 banking or financial organization or business
  1 37 association.  The memorandum shall be dated and may
  1 38 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 MICHAEL E. GRONSTAL
  1 49 SF 375.501 76
  1 50 ec/jw
     

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