617.1440 Deposit with Department of Financial Services.—Unless otherwise provided in ss. 617.1407-617.1409, assets of a dissolved corporation that should be transferred to a creditor, claimant, member of the corporation, or other person who cannot be found or who is not competent to receive them must be deposited, or reduced to cash and deposited, as appropriate, within 6 months after the date fixed for the payment of the final liquidating distribution, with the Department of Financial Services for safekeeping, where such assets shall be held as abandoned property. When the creditor, claimant, member, or other person furnishes satisfactory proof of entitlement to the amount or assets deposited, the Department of Financial Services shall pay the creditor, claimant, member, or other person, or 1the representative for that creditor, claimant, member, or other person, that amount or those assets.
History.—s. 90, ch. 90-179; s. 95, ch. 97-102; s. 749, ch. 2003-261; s. 83, ch. 2026-168.
1Note.—The word “the” was substituted for the word “their” by the editors to conform to context.
