(A) The Police Department is hereby authorized and directed to seize and reduce to its possession any automobiles, bicycles, or other vehicles or other machinery or part thereof, whether stolen, wrecked, or otherwise abandoned with may be found in or upon any of the public rights-of-way or other public property. This includes any boat or skiff whether stolen, wrecked, or otherwise abandoned which may be found upon any of the rivers, public canals, lakes, or waterways, or upon the banks of these waters subject to the provisions of F.S. 823.11 as hereby enacted or amended from time to time. This also includes any other property whether stolen, wrecked, or otherwise abandoned which may be found in or upon any of the public rights-of-way or public property or upon the public waterways or banks thereof in the city.
(B) The city adopts F.S. Ch. 705 titled “Lost or Abandoned Property” in its entirety as hereby enacted or amended from time to time.
(C) The city adopts the procedures set forth in F.S. Ch. 790.08 titled "Taking Possession of Weapons and Arms; Reports; Disposition; Custody" as enacted or amended from time to time.
(D) The Police Department shall endeavor to keep and maintain adequate safes, storage rooms, garages or warehouses for all collected property that may be lost, abandoned, stolen or confiscated in evidence or given to the Police Department for safekeeping provided that the city shall not be a guarantor of deposited property and shall not incur any liability in the event such property is damaged, stolen, or subject to circumstances beyond the Police department's control; however, the storage and sale of vehicles and bicycles shall be governed by the provisions of Chapter 96 and 72 of this code.
(E) Items not including weapons, electric weapons or devises and arms left with the Police Department for safekeeping shall, after 90 days, be considered abandoned and shall be sold or used in the same manner as provided above for other abandoned property.
(Ord. 90-35, passed 3-13-90)
Cross-reference:
Police Department responsible for enforcement of Combat Automobile Theft Program, see § 132.28