Any personal property found by a person other than a public official or a public employee of the City which is delivered to any police officer for identification and which is not claimed or identified within thirty (30) days shall, within ten (10) additional days thereafter, if requested by the finder, be returned to the finder and a record of such disposal shall be made. If any such property shall be sold as provided in this section and the owner thereof shall take and recover possession of same from the purchaser, the amount paid therefor shall be returned to the purchaser upon verified claim being submitted, approved, and allowed by the proper officers.
(Code 1991, § 13-504)