Does MGL have any specific rules for SDB's except for reference to will searches?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Section 17 of MGL Ch. 158 deals with opening boxes for non payment
209 CMR 30 requires a notice concerning insurance coverage in lease agreements and rent bills.

Thanks John, I found that section!
Cheers!

Looking for Rules and Regulations for Safe Deposit Box in Massachusetts. Also samples of Contracts

I have a question... I didn't see anything in the section you linked to, John. I'm wondering if MGL or any other reg covers what happens to a safe deposit box when a person is expelled from the institution and they do not come in to empty/close the box.

I'm wondering if we would be required to keep the SDB "on the books" until it has been overdue for a year and then follow the provisions of MGL Ch 158 S 17, or whether expulsion allows for an abbreviated process to close the box?

Massachusetts laws are silent on a lot of safe deposit questions. In your case, MtnHiker, your safe deposit box rental agreement is probably where there ought to be a provision covering non-depositor rentals. I suggest you talk with bank counsel about reviewing the contract and seeing whether there's a way to add language that gives the bank the right to terminate a lease by a nondepositor following a contractual notice period (for argument's sake, let's say you'd have to provide 30 days' notice to empty the box and surrender the keys, following which you'd provide a pro rata refund of any prepaid rent.

Thanks John, I was thinking along the lines it would have to be spelled out in the contract language. I wasn't sure whether there was any type of regulatory limit to that that language could be. Thanks for a poke in the right direction.