8642 Unclaimed Water DepositsORDINANCE NUMBER 8642
(Published in The Salina Journal Qf'Q 1978) I
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE FORFEITURE OF UNCLAIMED DEPOSITS OF
WATER CUSTOMERS; AMENDING SECTION 35-29 OF THE SALINA CODE; AND REPEALING THE
EXISTING SECTION.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That Section 35-29 of the Salina Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
''Section 35-29. Forfeiture of unclaimed deposits.
Any amount of security deposit and the accrued interest thereon
remaining in the account of any customer in accordance with this
article who has discontinued service with the department shall be
placed in the operating fund of the Water and Sewerage Department upon
the following conditions:
(a). Such money has remained on deposit with the Water and
Sewerage Department for a period of more than three (3)
years from the date service was discontinued;
(b). No demand for such money has been made at any time during
the three (3) year period;
(c). The whereabouts of the person to whose account the money is
credited is unknown and a reasonable effort has been made to
determine the same; and,
(d). Following the expiration of the three (3) year period the
Water and Sewerage Department has published once a week for
two (2) consecutive weeks in the official newspaper of the
city a notice listing the person whose deposit remains on
account and that a demand for such money must be made within
sixty (60) days.
Sixty (60) days after the last publication of such notice, any
security deposit remaining in the account of such customer shall be
placed in the operating fund of the Water and Sewerage Department.''
Section 2. That the existing Section 35-29 of the Salina Code is
hereby repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect after
its adoption and publication in the official city newspaper.
Introduced: June 26, 1978
Passed: July �, 1978
Jack Weisgerber, ayor
(SEAL)
Attest:
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D. L. Harrison, City Clerk