1. No safe leased by any safe-deposit company, nor any receptacle of any kind, while stored upon the premises of any such company, shall be opened by any person except by the person to whom such safe was leased or by whom such receptacle was stored, or by some person authorized by him, or by the legal representatives of some person having the right of opening the same, unless under the provisions of this act, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
R. S. 1964, c. 279, s. 1.