After holding a junked motor vehicle for 15 days, the county may destroy it or sell it at private sale as junk. Within 15 days after final disposition of a junked motor vehicle, the county shall notify the State Division of Motor Vehicles that the vehicle has been determined to be a junked motor vehicle and has been disposed of as such. The notice shall contain as full and accurate a description of the vehicle as can be reasonably determined. The proceeds of the sale of a junked motor vehicle shall be paid to the Finance Officer of the county, who shall pay to the appropriate officers or persons the cost of removal, storage, investigation, sale and liens, in that order. The remainder of the proceeds of sale, if any, shall be held by the county for 30 days and paid to the registered owner upon demand. If the owner does not claim the remainder of the proceeds, within 30 days after the day the vehicle is disposed of, the funds shall be deposited in the county's General Fund, and the owner's rights in the vehicle are extinguished.
(Ord. passed 7-1-87)