After the six-month period, property not delivered to the true owner or finder must be sold by the City Manager at a public auction or appropriated to the use of the city. The City Manager or designee must give ten days published notice of the auction in the official newspaper. The notice must describe the article to be disposed of and announce the date, time and place of the auction. Instead of being sold at auction, any article or property not delivered to the true owner or finder may be appropriated to the use of the city by any department in need thereof upon approval of such appropriation by the Council.
('72 Code, § 120:20)