§ 25-2717.Unclaimed funds; payment to State Treasurer; disposition.

Money passes through a county court in many forms — filing fees, condemnation awards, legacies and devises from an estate, sums owed to a creditor, or costs due an heir or legatee. Section 25-2717 answers a question every county court office eventually faces: what happens when no one comes to collect it? If three years pass from the date the funds were paid to the county judge, or a predecessor in that office, without the rightful person collecting or demanding them, the judge must notify the State Treasurer of the amount still on hand.

Notice alone does not move the money. The county judge remits the unclaimed funds to the State Treasurer only when the Treasurer directs the transfer, and the destination is the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund created under section 69-1317. That routes county-held funds into the statewide system that already handles unclaimed bank accounts, insurance proceeds, and similar property, where an owner can later file a claim.

The section also shields the judge personally. Payment to the Treasurer in compliance with this section releases the judge’s bond from further liability for the fees, money, awards, legacies, devises, or costs covered by that payment. A judge who follows the notice-and-remit process here does not remain exposed if an heir or creditor surfaces later looking for funds already forwarded to the state.