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1.An action shall not be brought against a museum for damages because of injury to or
loss of property loaned to the museum more than three years from the date the museum gives
the lender or claimant notice of the injury or loss or ten years from the date of the injury or
loss, whichever occurs earlier.
2.An action shall not be brought against a museum to recover property on loan more
than one year from the date the museum gives the lender or claimant notice of its intent to
terminate the loan or notice of acquisition of title to undocumented property.
3.An action shall not be brought against a museum to recover property on loan more than
seven years from the date of the last written contact between the lender or claimant and the
museum as evidenced by the museum’s records.
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1. An action shall not be brought against a museum for damages because of injury to or
loss of property loaned to the museum more than three years from the date the museum gives
the lender or claimant notice of the injury or loss or ten years from the date of the injury or
loss, whichever occurs earlier.
2. An action shall not be brought against a museum to recover property on loan more
than one year from the date the museum gives the lender or claimant notice of its intent to
terminate the loan or notice of acquisition of title to undocumented property.
3. An action shall not be brought against a museum to recover property on loan more than
seven years from the date of the last written contact between the lender or claimant and the
museum as evidenced by the museum’s records.
4. A lender or claimant is considered to have donated loaned property to the museum if
the lender fails to file an action to recover the property on loan to the museum within the
periods specified in subsections 1 through 3.
5. A person who purchases property from a museum acquires good title to the property if
the museum represents that it has acquired title to the property pursuant to subsection 4.
6. Notwithstanding subsections 3 and 4, a lender or claimant who was not given notice as
provided in this chapter that the museum intended to terminate a loan, as provided in section
305B.6, and who proves that the museum received an adequate notice of intent to preserve an
interest in loaned property, which satisfies all of the requirements of section 305B.8, within
the seven years immediately preceding the filing of an action to recover the property, may
recover the property or, if the property has been disposed of, the reasonable value of the
property at the time it was disposed of plus interest at the legal rate.
7. A museum is not liable at any time, in the absence of a court order, for returning
property to the original lender, even if a claimant other than the lender has filed a notice of
intent to preserve an interest in property. If persons claim competing interests in property
in the possession of a museum, the burden is upon the claimants to prove their interest in
an action in equity initiated by a claimant. A museum is not liable at any time for returning
property to an uncontested claimant who produced reasonable proof of ownership pursuant
to section 305B.8.