Whenever any person under arrest by any police officer of the city shall be confined in the city jail and before his confinement in the city jail, he shall be searched by any police officer or jailer or jail guard, and any articles or thing of value whatever shall be taken from the person imprisoned. It shall be the duty of the jailer or jail guard, whether day or night man, to make an itemized record of each article or thing of value whatever taken from the person of anyone so imprisoned, and it shall be the duty of the jailer or jail guard to sign the record as to each person imprisoned from whom any article or thing of value is taken. (Code 1941, Art. 113-1; Ord. 8175)
If any person shall claim to be the owner of any article or thing of value taken from the person of any prisoner, the chief of police shall turn over and deliver the same to the person claiming it if in his opinion such person is the owner. (Code 1941, Art. 113-2; Ord. 8175)
In the event the true owner does not claim any property or article of value deposited with the chief of police as provided in this article and the same shall have remained in his custody for as long as four months from the time it was originally delivered into his custody, without being claimed or reclaimed by the owner, whether known or not, may be sold and disposed of at public auction, as provided in this article. (Code 1941, Art. 113-3; Ord. 8175)
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