Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-03

AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.
| The Mayor and Council of the City of Los Angs-
les do 0rdGtn as f0LLOt0s:
SECTION 1. The Chief of Police of the City of
Los Angeles shall be the custodian of all lost,
stolen b and Which
or which may hereafter come into the posses
sion of any police officer.
Sec. 2. Every police oficer, upon taking or
receiving into his custody, in the discharge of
his duty. any money or property, shall forthwith
deliver tuch money or property to the Secretary
OF the Police Department of said city, and said
Secretary, under the direction and control of
the Chief of Police, shall particularly register all
such property delivered to or received by him,
in a book to be kept for that purpose stating the
name of the person from whom and by whom
each article or parcel shall have been taken, the
names OF all claimants OF the same, the time Of
seizure. and the final disposition thereof
SEC. 3. Whenever money or property shall
have been taken from person on suspicion
that such person feloniously obtained the
| same, If, upon examin alton of the person sus-
pected the examining magistrate shall be sat-
ished from the evidence that he is innocent,
and that the money or properly rightfuly be-
longs to him, such magistrate shall, in writing,
order said property returned to the person &C.
cused, and not to any sgent. attorney or clerk.
SEC. 4. The Chief OF Police shall, upon the
first Monday of June in each year, make a re-
port to the Council of said city, of all lost,
stolen and unclaimed property which may be
in his possession or under his CONTROL and shall
cause TO be published for ten days, in daily
newspaper an advertisement setting forth that
on a certain day in the month of July follow
ing, and at a specified time and place, he will
proceed to sell, at public auction all property in
mis- possession by virtue of the provisions of
this ordinance, giving a fair and just deserip-
ton of the same.
SEC. After having duly published the ad-
vertisement, in the last section provided for,
the Chief of Police shall, at the time aud place
designated in said advertisement, proceed to
sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder /,
the property described in said advertisement;
and, after having paid the just and reasonable
expenses of storage, advertising and sale, shall
turn over the proceeds of said sale, together
with list of the property sold and the prices of
each piece or parcel thereof. to the Treasurer OF
said city, who shall keep the same in a separate
fund, designa' ed for that purpose.
SEC. g. The City Treasurer shall, at the ex-
piration of one year after every sale made
under this ordinance, pay into the General
Fund all moneys remaining in his hands on
account of such sale.
SEC. 7. The Police Judge may hear and de-
termine ut chambers anv complaint made by
person interested in the disposition OF any
money or property mentioned in this ordin-
ance; and may, upon hearing, direct the del1v-
cry of any money or property, or the payment
the proportional share of the expenses of stor-
age, advertisement aud sale) to the person en-
titled thereto.
same to be published once in the Los
Angeles DAILY HERALD, and thereupon an
thereafter the same shall take effect and be In
force.
l hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance
was adopted by the Council of the City of Lo g
Angeles at its meeting OF May 9th, 1889.
Approved this 31.t day of May, A. d. 1889.
HENRY T. HAZARD,
| je3-1t Mayor