Duty to inform and announce the finding

Whoever finds the aforesaid deposit and does not know who the owner thereof is, and it is not evidently known that the deposit is more than 30 years old, he shall announce the find in the Gazette of the High Court of the respective district, and if the owner thereof does not appear within 2 years, the finder shall be the owner of the find, in full or in part, as provided in the following article. § Sole paragraph - Besides the obligation established by this Article, the finder is also bound to inform the fact of the find to the administrative authority of the parish, within a period of 3 days from the day of the event. The administrative authority to whom notice was given, shall immediately give the notice thereof by way of publication and also notices in any periodical, in order that any person, who has a right to it, may collect it within two years, failing which he will lose the right over the same, in accordance with the present article.