HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-704ORDINANCE NS-704 AMENDING SECTION 2612 OF
PART 1, CHAPTER 6, ARTICLE II OF THE SANTA
ANA MUNICIPAL CODE REGULATING DISPOSAL OF
UNCLAIMRD PROPERTY
THE CITY COUNCIL O~ THE CITY OF DANTA ANA DO~ ODi)AIN Aa
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Section 2612 of the Santa Aha Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2612. Disposal of Unclaimed Property.
Whenever unclaimed property found, recovered or held
by the Police Department shall accumulate to the point
where the Chief of Police desires to dispose of the
same, it may be sold after cc~plying with the provisions
of Section 1873 of the Civil Code of the State of
California as the same now exists or may hereafter be
amended, and provisions of this Section shall not
prevail insofar as they may be inconsistent with State
statutes.
Such property must be held by the Police Department
for at least six (6) months, except unclaimed bicycles
shall be held for a period of at least three (3) months.
Such property must be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder. Notice of such sale shall be given by
the Chief of Police at least five (5) days before the
time fixed for sale by publication once in the newspaper
publishing City legal notices.
Property shall be returned to finder on demand if he
has complied with the requirements of the Civil Code
governing the duties and obligations of a finder, and no
such property shall be sold without giving five (5) days
notice by mail to the person turning it in, if such
person gave an address.
After said notices are given, the sale shall be con-
ducted by the Purchasing Agent or, with the approval of
the City Manager, some other City employee or employed
professional auctioneer. Property for which no bid is
made at such sale may be given to a nonprofit charitable
corporation or destroyed as the Chief of Police may
direct.
SECTION 2: That this Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30)
days from and after the date of its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ana at its regular meeting held on the 6th day of January, 1964.
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
SS
I, DORIS M. BROWN, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Aha, California; that the foregoing
Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council
of said City held on the 16th day of December, 1963, and was again
considered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the
6th day of January, 1964, and at said meeting was regularly passed
and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to wit:
AYES,
NOES,
ABSENT,
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
Hubbard~ Harvey~ Gilmor% Schlueter~ Hall
None
None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
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