(A) All personal property which comes into the possession of any police officer, which has been found or stolen, or taken off the person or out of the possession of any prisoner or person suspected of or charged with being a criminal, and which is not known to belong to some person laying claim thereto shall be, by the officer securing possession thereof, delivered into the charge of the Police Chief. The Police Chief shall, in a permanent record book kept for that purpose, make a record sufficient to identify the property, with the date and circumstances of the receipt thereof and the name of the person from whom it was taken and the place where it was found. The record shall also disclose the subsequent disposal thereof, giving the date of sale, name, and address of the purchaser, and the amount for which it was sold.
(B) For the purpose of this chapter, POLICE CHIEF means the Police Chief, or his or her designee.
(Prior Code, § 13-601)