217.11 Duties of licensees.

(1) Every check sold by any licensee shall bear the name of the licensee clearly imprinted thereon, including the words authorized under s. 221.0402 (2) if applicable.

(2) Any money received by a seller of checks to be transmitted to a foreign country shall be so transmitted within 5 days from the receipt thereof.

(3) Every licensee shall furnish a customer with a receipt or other acknowledgment upon receiving funds from such customer. Such receipt or other acknowledgment shall be numbered serially.

(4) Each licensee shall have at all times a minimum of $1,000 of its own cash funds available for the uses and purposes of its business which minimum sum shall be exclusive of and in addition to funds received for exchange or transfer and in addition thereto each such licensee who does not maintain a bond in the maximum sum of $300,000 or securities in lieu of such bond as required by s. 217.06 (3) shall have at all times an amount of liquid funds which may include investments readily convertible into cash sufficient to pay on demand all outstanding money orders issued by it.

(5) If a licensee ceases to do business in this state, the licensee shall deposit the licensee's records and proceeds of checks and remittances relating to checks sold in this state with the secretary of revenue. On claim and submission of proof of ownership satisfactory to the secretary of revenue, the secretary of revenue shall pay such amount of the funds deposited as are owing to a person. Such funds as are not paid out within 20 years from date of deposit shall escheat to and become the property of the state, and shall be paid by the secretary of revenue and be dealt with in the same manner as other escheated property.

History: 1981 c. 259; 1991 a. 316; 1995 a. 336; 2013 a. 20.