RCW 63.30.100
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(1)Subject to RCW 63.30.120 , a security is presumed abandoned three years after:
(a)The date a second consecutive communication sent by the holder by first-class United States mail to the apparent owner is returned to the holder undelivered by the United States postal service; or
(b)If the second communication is made later than 30 days after the first communication is returned, the date the first communication is returned undelivered to the holder by the United States postal service.
(2)If the holder does not send communications to the apparent owner of a security by first-class United States mail, the holder shall attempt to confirm the apparent owner's interest in the security by sending the apparent owner an email communication not later than two years after the apparent owner's last indication of interest in the security. However the holder promptly shall attempt to contact the apparent owner by first-class United States mail if:
(a)The holder does not have information needed to send the apparent owner an email communication or the holder believes that the apparent owner's email address in the holder's records is not valid;
(b)The holder receives notification that the email communication was not received; or
(c)The apparent owner does not respond to the email communication not later than 30 days after the communication was sent.
(3)If first-class United States mail sent under subsection
(2)of this section is returned to the holder undelivered by the United States postal service, the security is presumed abandoned three years after the date the mail is returned.
[ 2022 c 225 s 207 .]