Section 93.21. Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Act—The Inheritance and Estate Tax Act (72 P. S. § § 2485-101—2485-1201)(Repealed).

Box—A safe deposit box.

Financial institution—Includes a bank, bank and trust company, trust company, national banking association, savings and loan association, building and loan association, mutual savings bank, credit union or other facility of depository which undertakes as a business or for profit to keep personal property.

Safe deposit box or box—A box in a financial institution located in this Commonwealth in the name of the decedent alone or in the names of the decedent and another; the term includes any type of vault, room or area where the property of a decedent is kept; the term does not include a box in the names of a decedent and the decedent’s surviving spouse if the box is in their names alone.

The provisions of this § 93.21 amended March 25, 1983, effective March 26, 1983, 13 Pa.B. 1142. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (35990).

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Authority

The provisions of this § 93.21 issued under section 104 of the Inheritance and Estate Tax Act of 1961 (72 P. S. § 2485-104)(Repealed).