(A) (1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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, § 33.20)
Statutory reference:
Alcoholic beverages seized in violation of law, see 37A O.S. §§ 5-101 et seq.
Disposal of stolen or embezzled property coming into hands of police officers, see 22 O.S. § 1321
Disposal of liquor and gambling equipment seized by police officers, see 22 O.S. § 1261
Disposition of personal property by Police Chief; procedures; application to destroy, see 11 O.S. § 34-104
Relating to finders of lost goods, see 15 O.S. §§ 511 et seq.
Uniform Unclaimed Property Disposition Act, see 60 O.S. § 655