CHAPTER 144
H. B. No. 38
(Backes, Boustead, Dornacker, Gackle, K. Johnson, Powers)
(From Legislative Research Committee Study)
DISPOSAL OF EFFECTS OF DECEASED PENAL INSTITUTION INMATES
AN ACT
To amend and reenact section 12-45-07 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the disposal of effects of deceased persons by the warden of the penitentiary and the superintendent of the state training school.
Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:
Section 1. Amendment.) Section 12-45-07 of the North Dakota Century Code is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
12-45-07. Effects of Deceased-Sale-Money Received.) The warden of the penitentiary or superintendent of the state training school, within ten days after the decease of any person confined in the penitentiary or state training school, shall make a written report to the state treasurer of the money and effects in his hands belonging to the deceased, and he shall transmit with such report any such money or effects. The state treasurer shall execute and deliver a receipt for the money or effects to the warden or superintendent and may require the warden or superintendent to sell such effects of the deceased and, in such case, shall direct the manner of sale, or he may direct the warden or superintendent to deliver said effects to the legal representative of the deceased. The warden or superintendent shall carry out the requirements and directions of the state treasurer. If such effects are sold, all moneys received therefor shall be delivered to the state treasurer, and the state treasurer shall place all money received on account of any such deceased person to the credit of the general fund of the state treasury. If the money is claimed within six years by the dependent relatives of the deceased, the state treasurer shall pay it to them after deducting the expenses of the inquest and the burial of the body of the deceased.
Approved March 8, 1969.
