1. All intangible personal property, not otherwise covered by this chapter, including any income or increment earned on the property and deducting any lawful charges, that is held or owing in this state in the ordinary course of the holder's business and has remained unclaimed by the owner for more than three years after it became payable or distributable is presumed abandoned. However, unpaid wages, including wages represented by payroll checks or other compensation for personal services owing in the ordinary course of the holder's business that remain unclaimed by the owner for more than one year after becoming payable are presumed abandoned.
2. An issuer of a gift certificate shall not deduct from the face value of the gift certificate any charge imposed due to the failure of the owner of the gift certificate to present the gift certificate in a timely manner, unless a valid and enforceable written contract exists between the issuer and the owner of the gift certificate pursuant to which the issuer regularly imposes such charges and does not regularly reverse or otherwise cancel them. For purposes of this subsection, "gift certificate" means a merchandise certificate conspicuously designated as a gift certificate, and generally purchased by a buyer for use by a person other than the buyer.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 556.9]
84 Acts, ch 1295, § 13; 2002 Acts, ch 1059, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 46, §2
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