A. If thirty (30) days have elapsed after impounding a motor vehicle and/or other vehicle, and giving notice as authorized in this chapter, during which the motor vehicle and/or other vehicle has not been claimed and the city's cost paid, the city shall cause the motor vehicle and/or other vehicle to be appraised.
B. If the vehicle is appraised at seventy five dollars ($75.00) or less, the director of traffic shall execute an affidavit so attesting and describing the vehicle, including the numbers of license plates, if any, and stating the location and appraised value of the vehicle. The director of traffic may then summarily dispose of the motor vehicle and/or other vehicle, and execute an appropriate certificate of sale or destruction. One copy of such certificate shall be filed with the city clerk-treasurer and another copy shall be forwarded to the Idaho transportation department, division of motor vehicles.
C. If the motor vehicle and/or other vehicle is appraised in excess of seventy five dollars ($75.00), the director of traffic shall give notice of public sale not less than ten (10) days before the date of the proposed sale. Such notice of sale shall include: 1) a statement that the sale is of impounded property in the possession of the city; 2) a description of the motor vehicle and/or other vehicle; 3) a statement of the terms of sale; 4) a recitation of the date, time, and place of sale. The motor vehicle and/or other vehicle shall be sold to the highest bidder. At the time of payment of the purchase price, the director of traffic shall execute an appropriate certificate of sale, the original to be given to the purchaser, one copy to be filed with the city clerk-treasurer and another copy to be forwarded to the Idaho transportation department division of motor vehicles.
(Ord. 177, 11-7-1977)