(a) The Franchise Tax Board may by notice, served personally or by first-class mail, require any employer, person, officer or department of the state, political subdivision or agency of the state, including the Regents of the University of California, a city organized under a freeholders' charter, or a political body not a subdivision or agency of the state, having in their possession, or under their control, any credits or other personal property or other things of value, belonging to a taxpayer or to an employer or person who has failed to withhold and transmit amounts due pursuant to this article, to withhold, from the credits or other personal property or other things of value, the amount of any tax, interest, or penalties due from the taxpayer or the amount of any liability incurred by that employer or person for failure to withhold and transmit amounts due from a taxpayer under this part and to transmit the amount withheld to the Franchise Tax Board at the times that it may designate. However, in the case of a depository institution, as defined in Section 19(b) of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C.A. Sec. 461(b)(1)(A)), amounts due from a taxpayer under this part shall be transmitted to the Franchise Tax Board not less than 10 business days from receipt of the notice. To be effective, the notice shall state the amount due from the taxpayer and shall be delivered or mailed to the branch or office reported in information returns filed with the Franchise Tax Board, or the branch or office where the credits or other property is held, unless another branch or office is designated by the employer, person, officer or department of the state, political subdivision or agency of the state, including the Regents of the University of California, a city organized under a freeholders' charter or a political body not a subdivision or agency of the state.