(a) No person shall abandon any boat or outboard motor at any time on or upon any waterway within the City. Any boat or outboard motor found unattended in a sunken or drifting condition, or beached on public property, shall be deemed to be abandoned by the owner. In the interest of the public safety such boat or outboard motor may be removed and impounded by any police officer or by order of the Mayor or Chief of Police for safekeeping and disposal in accordance with the provisions of subsections (b) to (e) hereof.
(b) The owner of such impounded boat or outboard motor if he is known or can be readily located, shall be notified and the owner permitted to redeem such boat or outboard motor by payment of a storage fee not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) per day plus the actual cost incurred in removal of such boat or outboard motor.
(c) When the owner of such boat or outboard motor cannot readily be located or identified, the impounded boat or outboard motor shall be held at a suitable place of safekeeping for a period of time not less than ninety days nor more than six months.
(d) Any boat or outboard motor unclaimed by the owner at the expiration of the time set forth in subsection (c) of this section shall, depending upon its condition, be disposed of by destroying such boat or outboard motor or by offering the same for sale at public auction after a notice has been published at least one week prior to such sale in a newspaper of general circulation in the City.
(e) All money received from such sale, after payment of all transportation, storage, advertising, sale and other expenses, shall be deposited in the General Revenue Fund.
(ORC 1547.30; Ord. 61-1985. Passed 5-28-85.)