§ 207. Proceedings on receipt of petition. Prior to the presentation\nof such petition, the petitioner shall cause to be personally served\nupon each person who would have succeeded to any interest in said land\nbut for the alienage of such person or another or for any other rule of\nlegal incapacity hereinbefore mentioned affecting an attempted transfer\nof such interest of such person, and each person in possession or\noccupation or who has filed a protest under section two hundred ten,\nwhose names and places of residence are known and cause to be published\nin a newspaper published in each county in which any part of said land\nis situated, once in each week for three successive weeks as to those\nwhose names and places of residence are unknown, a notice, in form\nadopted or approved by the commissioner, directed to such persons. Such\nnotice shall state the date on which such petition shall be filed with\nthe office of general services, the nature of the application, a\ndescription of the property affected and the name of the person or\npersons whose interest or interests shall have escheated to the people\nof the state of New York. Such notice shall also provide that any person\nor persons having a claim or right to said property equal to or superior\nto the right of the petitioner may file a remonstrance with the said\ncommissioner on or before the date of said filing against the granting\nof such petition and for the granting of a release to such person or\npersons. Proof of service and of publication as aforementioned shall be\nfiled with the petition. The commissioner may take proof of the facts\nalleged in said petition, by written or oral evidence, whether or not a\nsale or release of said property was theretofore made, the value of the\nproperty to be released, and such other facts as in his judgment are\nnecessary to determine the matter. If a remonstrance shall have been\npresented, the commissioner may take proof of the issues raised thereby\nand the relief therein asked. The commissioner may, as a condition of\nhearing the matter, require the petitioner or any remonstrant to produce\nwitnesses or advance the expense of producing them.\n
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