The chief of police is hereby empowered to offer for sale and to sell at public auction including sale by internet or other electronic medium to the highest bidder, all personal property, except impounded vehicles, and except property of a nature dealt with in §1-14 which may come within the custody of the police department by reason of its being abandoned, recovered, confiscated, impounded, or unclaimed. Notice of such sale shall be printed once in a legal newspaper published in the City of Grand Island at least ten days prior to the sale; provided, that no such property shall be offered or sold unless it shall have remained unclaimed by the lawful owner for a period of six months after it shall have come within the custody of the chief of police or the police department, or, in the case of property taken from or deposited by, persons arrested, detained, or accused of crime, shall have remained unclaimed for a period of six months after the discharge, liberation or departure of the person from whom such property was taken or by whom such property was deposited.
It shall be the responsibility of the chief of police to make such effort as he deems reasonable to notify the lawful owner of any such property that it will be sold or otherwise disposed of upon a given date.
All money received from the sale of the unclaimed property shall be paid to the chief of police, whose duty it shall be to account for such money collected by him to the city treasurer who shall place the same in the police fund.
(Amended by Ordinance No. 9029, effective 03-01-2006)