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CUSTODY AND DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE CUSTODY AND DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY
EXCEPT MOTOR VEHICLES AND ANIMALS COMING INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE
CITY OF OAK PARK HEIGHTS AND REMAINING UNCLAIMED.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OAK PARK HEIGHTS, WASHINGTON COUNTY,
MINNESOTA, DOES ORDAIN:
1112.01 Custodv of Found Proaertv. Excepting Animals and Motor Vehicles.
The City Clerk shall establish administrative provisions for receiving and
safekeeping money and property, except motor vehicles and animals, coming into
possession of the City of Oak Park Heights in the course of its municipal operations.
A receipt shall be issued to any person finding such property or money and causing
it to be delivered to the custody of the City. Such property shall be stored in a safe
place and such money deposited with the City Clerk for a period of three (3) months
unless claimed by the true owner. Upon expiration of the three (3) month period,
said property or money shall be subject to disposal under this ordinance as unclaimed
property or money.
1112.02 Claims by Owner.
During such three (3) month period, the City Clerk may deliver such property or
order such money paid to the true owner thereof, upon proof of ownership
satisfactory to the City Clerk, after ten (10) days notice by mail to other persons who
may have asserted a claim of true ownership. In the event ownership cannot be
determined to the satisfaction of the City Clerk, he may refuse to deliver such
property or order the payment of such money to anyone until ordered to do so by a
Court.
1112.03 Claim by Finder.
If the true owner does not claim property or money during the three (3) month
period, the City Clerk may release such unclaimed property, or other such unclaimed
money to be paid to the person who found same, if at the time of delivery to the City
of Oak Park Heights such finder indicated, in writing, that he wished to assert a claim
to the property or money as a finder.
1112.04 Transfer of Unclaimed Monies to General Fund.
If any such money is not claimed by the true owner, or by the finder, within the three
(3) month period, the City Clerk shall cause such money to be transferred to the
General Fund of the City.
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1112.05 Public Sale of Unclaimed Property.
Upon expiration of the three (3) month period, unclaimed property remaining in the
possession of the City of Oak Park Heights shall be appropriated for City use or shall
be sold at public sale by the City Clerk. The City Clerk shall cause ten (10) days'
published notice of the public sale in the official newspaper, describing therein the
article to be sold and the date, time, and place of sale. Any unclaimed property
offered for public sale, but not sold and not suitable for appropriation for City use,
shall be deemed to be of no value and shall be disposed of in such manner as the City
Clerk directs.
1112.06 Disnosition of Proceeds.
Upon completion of a public sale of unclaimed property, the City Clerk shall cause
the proceeds therefrom to be deposited in the General Fund of the City.
1112.07 Claim By Former Owner After Public Sale.
The former true owner of property sold at public sale according to the provisions of
1112.05 shall, upon application to the City Clerk within six (6) months of the date of
public sale and upon furnishing satisfactory proof of former ownership, be paid the
respective sale price proceeds from the General Fund of the City.
1112.08 Summary Disposal.
The City Clerk may, without notice and in such manner as he determines to be in the
public interest, dispose summarily of any property coming into his possession which
he determines to be dangerous or perishable. He shall make a record of the pertinent
facts of the receipt and disposal of such property.
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