Colorado Code § 38-13-204

When custodial account for minor presumed abandoned
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(1) Subject to
section 38-13-210, property held in an account established under a state's Uniform Gifts to
Minors Act or Uniform Transfers to Minors Act is presumed abandoned if it is unclaimed by or
on behalf of the minor on whose behalf the account was opened three years after the later of:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (1)(b) of this section, the date a second
consecutive communication sent by the holder by first-class United States mail to the custodian
of the minor on whose behalf the account was opened is returned undelivered to the holder by
the United States postal service;
(b) If the second communication is sent later than thirty days after the date the first
communication is returned undelivered, the date the first communication was returned
undelivered; or
(c) The date, if reasonably determinable by the holder, on which the custodian is
required to transfer the property to the minor or the minor's estate in accordance with the
Uniform Gifts to Minors Act or Uniform Transfers to Minors Act of the state in which the
account was opened.
(2) If the holder does not send communications to the custodian of the minor on whose
behalf an account described in subsection (1) of this section was opened by first-class United
States mail, the holder shall attempt to confirm the custodian's interest in the property by sending
the custodian an electronic-mail communication not later than two years after the custodian's last
indication of interest in the property; except that the holder promptly shall attempt to contact the
custodian by first-class United States mail if:
(a) The holder does not have information needed to send the custodian an electronic-
mail communication or the holder believes that the custodian's electronic-mail address in the
holder's records is not valid;
(b) The holder receives notification that the electronic-mail communication was not
received; or
(c) The custodian does not respond to the electronic-mail communication not later than
thirty days after the communication was sent.
(3) If first-class United States mail sent under subsection (2) of this section is returned
undelivered to the holder by the United States postal service, the property is presumed
abandoned three years after the later of:
(a) The date a second consecutive communication to contact the custodian by first-class
United States mail is returned to the holder undelivered by the United States postal service; or
(b) The date established by subsection (1)(c) of this section.
(4) When the property in the account described in subsection (1) of this section is
transferred to the minor on whose behalf an account was opened or to the minor's estate, the
property in the account is no longer subject to this section.

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