Opinion No.

The Honorable Shane Broadway State Representative 201 S.E. 2nd Street Bryant, Arkansas 72022-4025

Dear Representative Broadway:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on the following questions:

If an individual found a wallet that contained money and turned that wallet into the police, who would receive the wallet and the money if the owner never came forward to claim it? Can the individual who found the wallet claim it, or does the money and wallet go to a city or county fund of some sort?

In my opinion, a conclusive answer to your question will require factual determinations, which…