Sec. 48-19. Unclaimed damages for land taken for railroad or other public use to be kept by State Treasurer for owner.
Sec. 48-19. Unclaimed damages for land taken for railroad or other public use
to be kept by State Treasurer for owner. When land is taken for railroad purposes or
for any other use public in its character and the amount found due by the court as damages
for taking such land is deposited with the State Treasurer for the use of the owner of
the land so taken, the State Treasurer shall keep such deposit for the persons owning
the same, their heirs and assigns, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of
part III of chapter 32.
(1949 Rev., S. 7186; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 90; 1961, P.A. 540, S. 27.)
History: 1959 act removed references to deposits held by county treasurer and, after three years during which deposit
remains unclaimed, paid over to state treasurer, the act having abolished county government; 1961 act specified that state
treasurer is to keep deposit "subject to and in accordance with the provisions of part III of chapter 32".