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Property Clerk

Towed Vehicles

Police Auction

Motor Vehicle Collisions Reports

Non-Injury Vehicle Collisions

FAQs for Critical / Fatal Injury Collisions


Notice to a Finder of Property (Including Money)

Individuals who find property and turn it in may make claim for the property if the property has not been returned to the legitimate owner/claimant, or otherwise disposed of, and the property has been held in excess of the time parameters below:

Property having a value of less than $100 - 3 months;

Property having a value of $100 or more, but less than $500 - 6 months

Property having a value of $500 or more, but less than $5,000 - 1 year

Property having a value of $5,000 or more - 3 years.

When the allotted time period has expired, the finder of the property should bring a copy of the Property Clerk Invoice to claim the property. For information concerning property which you delivered to this Department, please call the Property Clerk's office in the borough in which the property was turned in.