Walk It Through: The Card In The Drawer
A gift card with no expiration date and no fee, the cards the rule leaves out, and a claim for property the state is holding.
A store gift card turns up in a drawer, with a printed expiration date that has passed.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One gift card and one old account. The full list of gift card exceptions, the commissioner's decision process, and finders' agreements are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Damage depositThe deposit a landlord returns with interest, or explains in a written statement of the specific reason for keeping any part, within three weeks after the tenancy ends and the landlord receives the tenant's mailing address.
- Gift certificateA gift certificate, gift card, stored value card or store card whose value goes down with each use. It is unlawful to sell one that is subject to an expiration date or a service fee of any kind, including a dormancy fee.
- Government dataAll data a government entity collects, creates, receives, maintains or disseminates, which are public unless a statute, a temporary classification or federal law classifies them otherwise.