Section 15D. (1) If the holder pays or delivers property to the treasurer in good faith and thereafter another person claims the property from the holder or another state claims the money or property under its laws relating to escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property, the commonwealth, upon written notice to the treasurer of the claim, shall defend the holder against the claim and indemnify the holder against any liability on the claim.
(2) For the purposes of this section, ''good faith'' shall mean: (1) payment or delivery was made in a reasonable attempt to comply with this chapter; (2) the person delivering the property was not a fiduciary then in breach of trust in respect to the property and had reasonable basis for believing, based on the facts then known to him, that the property was abandoned for the purposes of this chapter; and (3) there is no showing that the records pursuant to which the delivery was made did not meet reasonable commercial standards of practice in the industry.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
Chapter 200a - Disposition of Unclaimed Property
Section 1a - Intangible Personal Property; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 2 - Property; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 3 - Property on Deposit; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 3a - Automatically Renewable Abandonment Periods
Section 4 - Property Deposited as Security; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 5 - Dividends, Stock, Bonds, etc.; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 5a - Insurance Proceeds; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 5b - Dividends, Etc. of Business Associations; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 5c - Employee Benefit Trust Distributions; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 5d - Gift Certificates; Validity; Expiration; Redemption
Section 6 - Money Paid Into Court; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 6a - Property Distributable Upon Dissolution or Liquidation; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 6b - Traveler's Checks and Other Written Instruments; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 6c - Traveler's Checks and Other Written Instruments; Records; Penalty
Section 6d - Property Payable in Course of Demutualization; Presumption of Abandonment
Section 6e - Mineral Proceeds; Abandonment
Section 7 - Report; Form; Contents
Section 7a - Notice to Property Owner at Last Known Address
Section 7b - Property Owner's Last Known Address; Record
Section 8 - Notice of Certain Unclaimed Property; Publication; Form
Section 8a - Delivery or Payment of Abandoned Property to State Treasurer
Section 8b - Recovery of Property by Another State
Section 9 - Property Surrendered to Treasurer; Liquidation; Funds
Section 10 - Property Surrendered to Treasurer; Claims; Hearings; Appeals
Section 10a - Dividends, Interest, etc.; Credit to Owner's Account
Section 11 - Actions by or in Another State to Reclaim Property; Costs; Information
Section 13 - Agreements to Recover Property
Section 13a - Rules and Regulations
Section 13b - Extensions for Filing Reports of Abandoned Property
Section 15a - Delivery or Payment of Abandoned Property as Release and Discharge
Section 15b - Duplicate Certificates of Ownership; Holders of Interests Under Sec. 5b
Section 15c - Charges and Cessation of Interest on Abandoned Property
Section 15d - Good Faith Delivery to Treasurer; Defense and Indemnification by Commonwealth