All tangible and intangible property held in a safe deposit box or any other safekeeping repository in this State in the ordinary course of the holder's business and proceeds resulting from the sale of the property permitted by other law, which remain unclaimed by the owner for more than five years after the lease or rental period on the box or other repository has expired, are presumed abandoned.
S.C. Code Ann. § 27-18-170
Contents of safe deposit boxes or other safekeeping repositories
Known as the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act
The act spans §§ 27–27 (44 sections).
1988 Act No. 658, Part II, SECTION 34A.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.