CCQ-1991 - Civil Code of Québec

Section 942 Disposition versions

1994-01-01

942. The holder of a found thing, including the State or a municipality, may sell it if it is not claimed within 60 days.

The sale of the thing is held by auction and on the expiry of not less than 10 days after publication of a notice of sale in a newspaper circulated in the locality where the thing was found, stating the nature of the thing and indicating the place, day and hour of the sale.

The holder may dispose of the thing immediately, however, if it is perishable. Also, if there is no bidder at the auction, he may sell the thing by agreement, give it to a charitable institution or, if it is impossible to dispose of it in this way, destroy it.

1991, c. 64, a. 942.