Every driver of a taxicab or vehicle for hire, immediately after the termination of any hiring or employment, must carefully search such taxicab or vehicle for hire for any property lost or left therein, and any such property, unless sooner claimed or delivered to the owner, must be taken to the Police Department and deposited with the officer in charge thereof within twenty-four hours after the finding thereof. Such officer shall make a complete report on the police records of the receipt of such property.
(1979 Code Sec. 12.08.250)