(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, on filing a report under § 1142 of this title, the holder shall pay or deliver to the State Escheator the property described in the report.

(b) If property in a report under § 1142 of this title is an automatically renewable deposit and a penalty or forfeiture in the payment of interest would result from paying the deposit to the State Escheator at the time of the report, the date for payment of the property to the State Escheator is extended until a penalty or forfeiture no longer would result from payment, if the holder informs the State Escheator of the extended date.

(c) If property reported to the State Escheator under § 1142 of this title is a security, the State Escheator may do either of the following:

(1) Make an endorsement, instruction, or entitlement order on behalf of the owner to invoke the duty of the issuer, its transfer agent, or the securities intermediary to transfer the security.

(2) Dispose of the security under § 1159 of this title.

(d) The State Escheator shall establish procedures for the registration, issuance, method of delivery, transfer, and maintenance of securities delivered to the State Escheator by a holder.

(e) A holder is not required to deliver to the State Escheator a security identified by the holder as a nonfreely transferable security. Upon determination by the State Escheator or the holder that a security is no longer a nonfreely transferable security, the holder shall remit the security on the next regular date prescribed for delivery of securities under this chapter. The holder shall annually determine whether a security identified in a report filed under § 1142 of this title as a nonfreely transferable security is no longer a nonfreely transferable security.

81 Del. Laws, c. 1, § 2.