V-3 - Act respecting the sale of unclaimed goods

Section 9 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

9. Fur merchants, the owners of fur making and repairing workshops and, generally, all those who trade in and repair furs, in possession of articles deposited in their custody to be stored, repaired or altered, subject to remuneration, may, if the articles are not claimed within the eighteen months following their deposit, cause them to be sold by an auctioneer. No such sale may be made except on the date fixed in a notice given by registered or certified letter to the last known address of the owner of the article and in a notice published in a French newspaper and in an English newspaper of the locality. If there be only one newspaper in the locality or if all of them be published in the same language, the notice shall be inserted in both languages in the same newspaper. If there be no newspaper in the locality the notice shall be inserted in a French newspaper and in an English newspaper published in the nearest place thereto and if there be but one newspaper published in such place then in both languages in the same newspaper. An interval of two weeks must elapse between the date of the notice and that of the sale.

R. S. 1964, c. 316, s. 9; 1975, c. 83, s. 84.