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The complete custody, determination and restitution record of a state treasurer's unclaimed property division — the office that takes custody of money nobody has claimed, holds it in perpetuity for the rightful owner, and pays it back only when that owner is proven. The authority on what is owed, to whom, on what evidence, and what the state is holding until that evidence arrives. The signature Property Register is the custody file itself: every property remitted by a holder bank, insurer, utility, payroll processor or transfer agent, carrying its state property ID, its NAUPA property type code — AC01 checking, AC02 savings, IN01 life insurance proceeds, SD01 safe deposit contents, MS01 wages, SC01 dividends, UT01 utility deposits — the owner name and last known address exactly as reported, the amount held to the cent, the dormancy period that applied, the report year, and the status reading HELD, CLAIM PENDING, PAID, ESCHEATED TO FUND or ADVERTISED. Behind it: holder reporting, with each institution's FEIN, property count, aggregate remitted, filing timeliness against the November 1 deadline and whether the statutory due-diligence letters were evidenced before remittance; dormancy determination drawn as the schedule's own arithmetic — property type against statutory period, wages and utility deposits at one year, bank accounts, insurance proceeds and securities at three, safe deposit contents at five — with the date of last owner-generated activity, the computed reportable date and the properties crossing into reportable status this period, each one a bar on a drawn nine-year timeline with a vermilion rule marking the moment custody attaches; claims examination as the instrument it really is, with the claim number, the claimant, the relationship asserted — owner, heir, successor entity, authorized representative — the evidence filed against the evidence required, the examiner assigned, the days in examination against the ninety-day standard, and a determination that distinguishes APPROVED from DENIED — IDENTITY NOT ESTABLISHED, DENIED — ENTITLEMENT NOT ESTABLISHED and RETURNED FOR DOCUMENTS rather than collapsing them; intestate estates with the heir search performed and the kinship depth reached before the residue escheated; safe deposit inventory with boxes drilled, contents enumerated line by line with appraised value, lot number, hammer price and the cash proceeds now held in the owner's name; holder audits with the periods examined, the under-reporting found, interest and penalty assessed and the settlement reached; statutory advertising by county and publication date, against the threshold that exempts the smallest properties; and remittance and reconciliation, where the custodial fund closes month by month — opening balance, remitted in, claims paid out, auction proceeds in, closing balance — as a drawn waterfall whose arithmetic is printed beneath it. Claimants get a portal that searches the public index, opens a claim, tracks it stage by stage and names the exact documents still outstanding; the administrator gets properties held, aggregate custodial balance, claims against the ninety-day clock with the oldest named, and the holders standing delinquent. Set entirely in the Swiss International Typographic idiom of Müller-Brockmann and Neue Grafik crossed with the cold apparatus of a state comptroller's printed annual report: a hard twelve-column grid with visible hairline column rules, a cold near-white paper ground and graphite ink, flush-left ragged-right throughout, margin section numbering, tabular lining numerals with every currency column aligned on the decimal, and a single saturated vermilion reserved strictly and only for the out-of-standard — the delinquent holder, the denied claim, the examination past its clock. The fold's figures partition exactly against their own totals. Zero photography, zero gradients — every figure is hand-drawn inline SVG.