(a) The department may decline to receive property reported under this chapter. If the department elects not to receive custody of the property, the department shall notify the holder within 120 days after the holder files the report required under AS 34.45.280.
(b) A holder, with the written consent of the department and upon terms prescribed by the department, may report and deliver property before the property is presumed abandoned. Property delivered under this subsection shall be held by the department and is not presumed abandoned until the property would otherwise be presumed abandoned under this chapter.