Abandoned garment notice

Definition

The posted sign that lets a cleaner dispose of unclaimed clothes nobody came back for.

Why It Matters

The conveyor holds other people's property, and the only thing that turns it from an open-ended liability into stock is a notice the seller was or was not displaying. North Carolina gives ninety days from when each garment was handed in, then thirty more after a certified letter to the last known address, and it conditions the whole shield on a sign of at least eight and a half by eleven inches, displayed where the clothes are taken in, carrying one exact sentence. With the sign up and no letter the wait is a hundred and eighty days; Delaware runs a year and takes the notice on the ticket instead. Two absences matter as much. The federal care-labeling rule puts no duty on a cleaner at all, only on whoever made the garment, and no state read here caps a cleaner's liability, so the ten-times-the-cleaning-charge line is contract and not law.