IC 8-2-6
    Chapter 6. Disposition by Common Carrier of UnclaimedProperty

IC 8-2-6-1
Time for sale
    Sec. 1. When any freight or any baggage of passengers has beenconveyed by a common carrier to any point in this state and shallremain unclaimed for the space of three (3) months at the place towhich it is consigned or checked, and the owner, whether known orunknown, fails, within that time, to claim such freight or baggage,and to pay the proper charges, if any there be against it, then it shallbe lawful for such common carrier to sell such freight or baggage atpublic auction, offering each box, bale, trunk, valise or other articleseparately as consigned or checked.
(Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.97, s.1.)

IC 8-2-6-2
Notice of sale; sale; proceeds; disposition
    Sec. 2. Sixty (60) days' notice of the time and place of sale and adescriptive list of the articles to be sold, with the names, numbers, orother marks found thereon, shall be posted up in three (3) publicplaces of the county where the sale is to be made and one (1) on thedoor of the depot or warehouse, if any, where the goods are; andshall also give notice in at least one (1) paper in the county for sixty(60) days before sale; and, out of the proceeds of such sale, thecarrier shall pay the proper charges on such freight or baggage,including costs for storage for the previous three (3) months, andhold the overplus, if any, subject to the order of the owner, at anytime with five (5) years, on proof of ownership, made by the affidavitof the claimant or his duly authorized agent or attorney. Also, afterfive (5) years, all sums of money remaining unclaimed to be paid intothe county treasury, to be placed to the account of common schools.
(Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.97, s.2.)

IC 8-2-6-3
Records; inspection
    Sec. 3. The carrier shall keep a copy of the notice, a copy of thesale-bill, and the expenses thereof proportioned to each article sold,and also the oath of the claimant of the residue of the proceeds asaforesaid; and shall furnish an inspection of the same, and, ifrequired, copies thereof, to any one, on payment of the propercharges therefor.
(Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.97, s.3.)

IC 8-2-6-4
Perishable property or live stock
    Sec. 4. If any perishable property or live stock shall be soconveyed, either as freight or baggage as aforesaid, and remainunclaimed until in danger of great depreciation, or such live stock be

falling away because the carrier has not facilities to feed and waterthe same, then the carrier may, after the expiration of five (5) daysfrom the time said property is conveyed to the place to which it isconsigned or checked, sell, at private sale or auction, without givingthe sixty (60) days notice, for the best price it will bring, and applythe proceeds as aforesaid.
(Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.97, s.4.) As amended by P.L.5-1988,SEC.49.