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218.67 - ESTATE ADMINISTRATOR NOT IDENTIFIED.

        218.67  ESTATE ADMINISTRATOR NOT IDENTIFIED.
         If an estate administrator is not identified within one year from
      the death of a decedent in an institution, and a surviving spouse or
      heir is not known, the superintendent of the institution may convert
      all the decedent's property into cash and in so doing the
      superintendent shall have the powers possessed by a general
      administrator of an estate.
         Section History: Early Form
         [S13, § 2727-a72; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3354; C46, 50, 54,
      58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 218.67]
         Section History: Recent Form
         2000 Acts, ch 1112, §23