§ 1206 — Service of notice and petition

§ 1206. Service of notice and petition. 1. The notice and petition\nshall be served upon the clerk of the court into which or into whose\nregistry the fund or property has been paid or deposited or which has\ncontrol or custody thereof, or which has jurisdiction to make orders for\nthe payment of such money to the rightful owners thereof, together with\na notice that no personal claim is made against him, and also upon the\nUnited States attorney for the district in which such court is located.\n 2. The notice shall be served by publication, as hereinafter set\nforth, upon the other respondents described in subdivisions (a) and (b)\nof section twelve hundred four of this act. The court, upon finding that\nthe petition sufficiently sets forth the facts required under section\ntwelve hundred one of this article, may make any or all of the\npresumptions set forth in such section and make an order directing that\nthe notice be served upon such respondents by publication thereof not\nless than once in each of four successive weeks in two newspapers in the\nEnglish language designated in the order as most likely to give notice\nto such owners or claimants, which newspapers shall be published in the\ncounty in which the escheat proceeding shall be commenced, and also by\npublication thereof in the state bulletin as provided in the executive\nlaw.\n