PART 3. OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CIVIL NATURE 1063-1822.60›TITLE 10. UNCLAIMED PROPERTY 1300-1615›CHAPTER 7. Unclaimed Property Law 1500-1582›ARTICLE 7. Miscellaneous 1580-1582
§ 1581
California Code of Civil Procedure · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
(a) Any business association that sells in this state its travelers checks, money orders, or other similar written instruments (other than third-party bank checks) on which such business association is directly liable, or that provides such travelers checks, money orders, or similar written instruments to others for sale in this state, shall maintain a record indicating those travelers checks, money orders, or similar written instruments that are purchased from it in this state.
(b) The record required by this section may be destroyed after it has been retained for such reasonable time as the State Controller shall designate by regulation.
(c) Any business association that willfully fails to comply with this section is liable to the state for a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each day of such failure to comply, which penalty may be recovered in an action brought by the State Controller.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 25.)
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