Colorado § 11-105-505 - Adverse claims to safe deposit box.
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§ 11-105-505. Adverse claims to safe deposit box.
(1) An adverse claim to the contents of a safe deposit box is not sufficient reason to require the lessor to deny access to its lessee unless:
(a) The lessor is directed to do so by a court order issued in an action in which the lessee is served with process and named as a party by a name that identifies the lessee with the name in which the safe deposit box is leased; or
(b) The safe deposit box is leased, or the property is held, in the name of a lessee with the addition of words indicating that the contents, or property, are held in a fiduciary capacity for a named beneficiary or beneficiaries, and the adverse claim is supported by a sworn written statement of facts disclosing that it is made by, or on behalf of, such a beneficiary and that there is reason to know that the fiduciary may misappropriate the trust property.
(2) A claim is also an adverse claim where one of several lessees claims, contrary to the terms of the lease, an exclusive right of access, or where one or more persons claim a right of access as agents or officers of a lessee to the exclusion of others as agents or officers, or where it is claimed that a lessee is the same person as one using another name.
(3) The lessor of a safe deposit box shall not be deemed to be in possession or control of the contents thereof for the purposes of section 13-54.5-103, C.R.S., or any other statute or rule pertaining to writs of garnishment.
Source: L. 2003: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1127, § 3, effective July 1. L. 2009: (3) added, (HB 09-1053), ch. 159, p. 689, § 9, effective August 5.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 11-9-106 as it existed prior to 2003.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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