HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 423 1 ORDINANCE NO. 1.23
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AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR VIE CARE,
3 RESTITUTION, SALE AND DESTRUCTION OF
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.
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6 The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as
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8 SECTION 1. It is hereby made the duty of all
9 officers and employees of the City of Azusa whenever they find
10 within the corporate limits of said City, or whenever there comes
11 into their possession any personal property which such finder or
12 possessor has reason to believe may have been stolen, lost, or
13 abandoned, to deliver the same to the Chief of police.
14 SECTION 2. It shall be tne duty of the Chief of
15 police to take charge of and keep in his possession said property,
16 and he must within a reasonable time inform the owner thereof, if
17 known, and make restitution to him of such. property upon demand
18 without compensation. Should any such property remain unclaimed b°
19 its true owner for a period of six months from the date of finding,
20 the Chief of police is hereby authorized and required to cause tne
21 same to be sold at public auction to the nighest Binder. Notice
22 or such sale shall be given by the Chief of Police at least five
23 days before the time fixed therefor, by publication in the officio
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24 newspaper of the City of kx.: .kiat a statement or the time and place
25 fixed therefor, together with a schedule of the property to be
26 offered for sale. Immediately after the completion of any such
27 sale the Chief of police snail give to the City Treasurer a state-
28 meat of the proceeds thereof together with the expense incurred in
29 concluding such sale. Said Chief of police snail forthwith pay
30 such proceeds to the City Treasurer and the City Treasurer after .,
31 deauc ting the necessary expenses actually incurred shall deposit . .
32 the balance thereof in the general fund.
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1 SECTION 3. If there be no bids for any such
2 property orf erect. for sale at such auction, the property shall
3 again be offered for sale together with other such unclaimed
4 property at the next auction sale. If such property is not sold.
5 at the second auction sale, the Chief of police may make such
6 disposition thereof in the public interest as he shall deem fit.
7 SECTION 4. The provisions of this ordinance
8 shall not apply to property subject to confiscation under State
9 or Federal law.
10 SECTION 5. All ordinances or parts of ordinances
11 in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
12 Adopted this _kday of March, 1950.
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16 Mayor of the City of Azusa
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M. A. gyne City Clerk of
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2 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
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I, M. A. NINES, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los
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Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
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Ordinance was duly introducted at a regular meeting of the City
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Council of the City of Azusa on the 20 day of _February
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1950, in the regular council chambers of said city council in said
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city; that said Ordinance was placed upon its first reading at
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said regular meeting, February 20 , 1950; that thereafter
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said Ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said
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council, signed and approved by the Mayor and attested and approv -.
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by said City Clerk of said city at a regular meeting of said
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council so held in the regular council chambers at the next
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regular meeting of said city council on the 6 day of March ,
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1950, and the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of
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the council:
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18 AYES: Councilmen: Nasser, Ortuno, Flannery, Malone,
Memmesheimer
19 NOES: None
20 AB SENT: None
21 I do further certify that I caused said Ordinance to be
22 published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage
23 thereof in the Azusa Herald and pomotropic on the 9 day of
24March , 1950, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, pub
25 lished and circulated in said city of Azusa and that the same was
26 published in accordance with law.
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AZUSA. HERALD publish March 9 , 1950.
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