The Office of the County Treasurer has the following four types of unclaimed funds:
1. Deceased Estates Held in Trust:
Under Probate Code 11850, monies are held for one year then, if not claimed, are escheated to the State. This is a semi-annual process. Under Probate Code 7663, monies are held for three years then, if not claimed, are escheated to the County through the County Unclaimed Funds process (found below in item 4).
Excess proceeds after tax sale has occurred and County taxes have been paid. Claims may be made within a specific period, after which, the funds become the property of the County.
Monies received primarily from public storage companies for the sale of abandoned property, or from hospitals for abandoned property, as required by Business and Professions Code, Division 8, Chapter 10, Self-Service Storage Facilities and monies received from an abandoned mobilehome in a mobilehome park as required by California Civil Code Section 798.61(F). Funds are escheated to the County through the (#4) County Unclaimed Funds process.
Annually, the Treasurer-Tax Collector conducts an escheatment process for Countywide unclaimed monies per Government Code Section 50050-50057. The current list of items below will be escheated to the County on October 11, 2018 if no claims are received by midnight on October 10, 2018.
Annually, the County Treasurer receives a listing of monies which have remained unclaimed for over three years from each County Department and Agency. The Treasurer, pursuant to Government Code section 50050-50057Â provides that unclaimed monies which remain in the treasury or in the official custody of the officers of a local agency for a period of over three (3) years, become the property of the agency. Individual items $15.00 or more in value must be published as notification that the money will become the property of the County on a designated date if it is left unclaimed.
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