File #: O-28-24    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Public Hearing
File created: 9/26/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/25/2024 Final action:
Title: Police Department -- Property and Contraband Disposal - For the purpose of clarifying that Annapolis will follow state rules on the disposal of abandoned vehicles and generally dealing with property and contraband disposal.
Sponsors: Rhonda Pindell Charles
Indexes: Public Safety Committee, Rules and City Government Committee, Transportation Committee
Attachments: 1. O-28-24 First Reader, 2. O-28-24 Legislative Summary, 3. O-28-24 Staff Report, 4. O-28-24 Fiscal Impact Note, 5. O-28-24 Amendment 1 - Savidge
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Police Department -- Property and Contraband Disposal - For the purpose of clarifying that Annapolis will follow state rules on the disposal of abandoned vehicles and generally dealing with property and contraband disposal.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 28-24

Introduced by: Alderwoman Pindell Charles

Referred to:
Rules and City Government Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Police Department -- Property and Contraband Disposal

FOR the purpose of clarifying that Annapolis will follow state rules on the disposal of abandoned vehicles and generally dealing with property and contraband disposal.

BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2024 Edition
2.36.060


SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

Title 2 - ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 2.36 - Police Department
Section 2.36.060 - Property and contraband disposal-Authorized.

A. Authorized. The Police Chief may destroy any contraband articles or goods seized by or delivered to the Police Department, after removing any money.

B. The Police Chief shall sell at public auction all lost, abandoned, unclaimed, forfeited, undistributed contraband or stolen property, remaining in the possession of the Police Department for a period of six months without a lawful claimant, except that unclaimed bicycles may be auctioned after a three-month waiting period. This subsection shall not apply to weapons, narcotics, dangerous drugs and alcoholic beverages.

B. Disposal of Contraband or Stolen Property.
1. With the exception of paragraph 2, the Police Chief shall sell at public auction all lost, abandoned, unclaimed, forfeited, undistributed contraband or stolen property, remaining in the possession of the Police Department for a period of six months without a lawful claimant.
2. Unclaimed bicycles may be auctioned after a t...

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