Indiana Common Carrier Can Sell Unclaimed Property at Public Auction

Annotated Indiana Code
Title 8. Utilities and Transportation
Article 2. Common Carriers and Public Utilities
Chapter 6. Common Carriers -- Disposition of Unclaimed Freight and Baggage

8-2-6-1 Sale at public auction.

Sec. 1. When any freight or any baggage of passengers has been conveyed by a common carrier to any point in this state and shall remain unclaimed for the space of three (3) months at the place to which it is consigned or checked, and the owner, whether known or unknown, fails, within that time, to claim such freight or baggage, and to pay the proper charges, if any there be against it, then it shall be lawful for such common carrier to sell such freight or baggage at public auction, offering each box, bale, trunk, valise or other article separately as consigned or checked.

Cite as Ind. Code Ann. § 8-2-6-1