§ 2-13.01. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:

(a)

"Personal property" shall include money, goods, chattels, negotiable instruments, written evidence of rights in legal actions, evidences of debts, and other items of intrinsic value which are not considered by law to be real property, but shall exclude animals.

(b)

"Unclaimed property" shall mean personal property of others taken into the possession of the Police Department or left in its possession or turned over to it by a person who found or saved such property, except:

(1)

Property subject to confiscation under the laws of the State or of the United States; and

(2)

Vehicles, the storage, sale, or other disposition of which is governed by the provisions of the Vehicle Code of the State; and

(3)

Property held as evidence, dangerous or deadly weapons, narcotics or dangerous drugs, explosives or property of any kind whatsoever, which is prohibited, restricted or outlawed by state or federal statutes, or which has been intentionally abandoned by its owner, based on an objectively reasonable belief supported by facts or evidence that the property has been intentionally abandoned or relinquished.

(§ 1, Ord. 465, eff. April 8, 1981 as amended by § 1, Ord. No. 1283, eff. February 8, 2018)