(A) Where the city seizes property, the city shall take reasonable steps to safeguard and protect the things seized against loss, damage and deterioration.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) above, the city is not liable for loss, damage or deterioration resulting from any reasonable actions taken to secure or develop evidence of an ordinance violation, crime or offense.
(C) The city may cause the nuisance items removed pursuant to the nuisance abatement warrant to be disposed of in an approved manner whenever the city finds that the fair and reasonable value of the items at resale would be less than the cost of storing and selling the items. In making the above determination, the City Manager may include in the costs of sale the reasonable cost of removing the items to a place of storage, of storing the items for resale, of holding the resale including reasonable staff allowances and all other reasonable and necessary expenses of holding the sale.
(Prior Code, § 130.59) (Ord. 1253, passed 12-6-2010)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see O.R.S. 133.537