(A) Any member of the Police Department may seize or cause to be seized any instrument, device, machine or thing used, kept or intended for the purpose of gambling, or on, by or with which money or other articles may be lost or won, and, upon the arrest of any person for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, shall make or cause the seizure of all such articles used or kept in such violation.
(B) Upon adjudication by a court that any such instrument, device, machine or thing was used, kept or intended for the purposes set forth in division (A) of this section, the court may forthwith order the destruction of all such property by the Police Department.
(‘82 Code, § 630.10)