Any provision in a certificate of incorporation, bylaw, trust agreement, contract, or any other writing regulating the relationships between an owner and a holder, which relates to property that is or may be subject to the provisions of this chapter, with the exception of “nonescheat capital credits” as defined in § 909 of Title 26, and which provides that upon the owner's failure to act or make a claim regarding property in possession of the holder that the property reverts to or becomes the property of the holder is void and unenforceable.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Subchapter II. Unclaimed Property
§ 1131. Inapplicability to wholly foreign transaction.
§ 1133. When property presumed abandoned.
§ 1134. When contents of safe deposit box presumed abandoned.
§ 1135. When related property interest presumed abandoned.
§ 1136. Indication of owner interest in property.
§ 1138. Retained asset account for insurance policy or annuity contract.
§ 1139. Address of owner to establish priority.
§ 1140. Address of owner in this State.
§ 1141. Holder domiciled in this State.
§ 1142. Report required by holder.
§ 1144. When report to be filed.
§ 1146. When property reportable and payable or deliverable.
§ 1147. Limitation on assignment or transfer of liability.
§ 1148. Notice to owner by holder [For application of this section, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 59, § 25].
§ 1149. Contents of notice by holder.
§ 1151. Cooperation among agencies to determine owner.
§ 1152. Payment or delivery of property to State Escheator.
§ 1153. Effect of payment or delivery of property to State Escheator.
§ 1154. Interest not to run after report of property and limitation on claims.
§ 1155. State Escheator's options as to custody.
§ § 1156. Periods of limitation.
§ 1158. Public sale of property.
§ 1159. Disposal of securities [For application of this section, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 346, § 12].
§ 1161. Purchaser owns property after sale.
§ 1163. Deposit and disbursement of funds.
§ 1164. State Escheator to retain records of property.
§ 1165. Claim for property by person claiming to be owner.
§ 1168. Payment by State Escheator.
§ 1169. Allowance of claim for property.
§ 1170. Request for report of property; compliance reviews.
§ 1173. Voluntary property reporting outreach program.
§ 1174. Records obtained in examination or voluntary disclosure.
§ 1175. Evidence of debt or undischarged obligation.
§ 1176. Failure of person examined to retain records.
§ 1180. Judicial action to enforce liability.
§ 1181. Interstate agreement and cooperation.
§ 1182. Action involving another state.
§ 1183. Interest and penalties.
§ 1184. Other civil penalties.
§ 1186. When agreement to locate property enforceable.
§ 1187. When agreement to locate property unenforceable.
§ 1188. Right of owner's agent to recover property held by State Escheator.