This seems to be an internal policy issue. Your institution has valid legal title, via the abandoned property
process. If the material is considered part of the museums permanent collection, cataloged or not, it falls
under the consideration of a permanent collections management policy. If your permanent collections management
policy addresses deaccessioning with procedure, I don't see the need to create new procedures. If you don't
have a permanent collections management policy, create one and include a sound and reasonable deaccessioning
apparatus within it. If the material is uncataloged (minimally an inventory), it will need to be documented.

Having a good election day :-)
Terry Vidal

Stacy Jensen wrote:
>
> In 1998 we claimed a little over 3000 objects under the Abandoned Property
> Law of Colorado.  We are currently looking at removing some of these objects
> from our collection. When we claimed them as abandoned property we
> essentially acquired title for all 3000 objects.  Do these objects need to
> go through the same deaccessioned process as other objects that were donated
> as gifts with a valid, legal, title?  Or does a seperate form need to be
> created for the removal of abandoned property objects from the permanent
> collection?
>
> Thanks,
> Stacy Jensen
> Collection Manager
> Aspen Historical Society
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