(A) Applicability. This section shall apply to all bicycles, cameras, electronic equipment, office machines, watches, clocks, jewelry and other items of personal property which may be recovered by the Police Department in connection with the performance of its duties, or turned in to the Department, and shall be referred to in this section as personal property.
(B) Annual public sale. All personal property which has been lost, stolen or abandoned and which is in the possession of the Department shall be disposed of by annual public sale to the highest bidder by the Police Chief, or an officer appointed by him or her, in accordance with the terms set forth in this section.
(C) Notice; publication.
(1) Such personal property which remains unclaimed by the owner, or if the owner is unknown, shall be sold at public sale after duly posting of a notice of same at the Town Hall at least 15 days prior to such sale.
(2) The notice shall contain the time, place and terms of the sale and a description of the property to be sold.
(D) Proceeds placed in General Fund. The proceeds from the sale of unclaimed personal property shall be paid into the General Fund of the town the day of the sale.
Statutory reference:
Sale of recovered property, see S.C. Code §§ 27-21-20 et seq.