A state bank shall permit the person named in a court order for the purpose or, if no order has been served upon the state bank, the spouse, a parent, an adult descendant or a person named as executor in a copy of a purported will produced by the person, to open and examine the contents of a safe deposit box leased by a decedent, or to examine any property delivered by a decedent for safekeeping, in the presence of an officer of the state bank. The state bank shall, if requested by such person, and upon their receipt therefor, deliver:
1. Any writing purported to be a will of the decedent to the court having jurisdiction of the decedent's estate.
2. Any writing purported to be a deed to a burial plot, or to give burial instructions, to the person making the request for a search.
3. Any document purported to be an insurance policy on the life of the decedent to the beneficiary named therein. A state bank shall prepare and keep a list of any contents delivered pursuant to this section describing the nature of the property and the individual to whom delivered, and place a copy of the list in the safe deposit box from which such contents were removed.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 524.810]
Referred to in § 524.108
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